{"id":100052,"date":"2019-03-22T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=100052"},"modified":"2019-03-22T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T07:26:11","slug":"never-too-young-and-never-too-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=100052","title":{"rendered":"Never too young, and never too old&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i got up at 4:30am and was texting my foil buddy till 6:30am. \u00a0went to get a couple waves at Diamond Head and had a great time. \u00a0then came home for my tax appointment when Mateus was waiting outside my house and said &#8220;unko, i want to go surfing.&#8221; \u00a0i asked him &#8220;ok, when?&#8221; \u00a0he said &#8220;now!&#8221; \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100054\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-22-at-3.50.51-PM-663x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"379\" \/>\u00a0i cancel my tax appointment, throw a board and Mateus in the truck and head to Bowls. \u00a0there is no way in the world i&#8217;m going to miss this opportunity. \u00a0i took Mateus surfing when he was 1 year old and he hasn&#8217;t surfed since then. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100053\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-22-at-3.51.45-PM-663x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"381\" \/>\u00a05 years later and now this kid is finally ready. \u00a0i asked him why he wanted to go surfing today and he said &#8220;because my whole family surfs.&#8221; \u00a0haha&#8230; \u00a0this was his first wave in 5 years. \u00a0look at his face! \u00a0haha&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100059\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-22-at-3.53.10-PM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>\u00a0after the ride, he was so stoked!!! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100055\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0i changed him, then he said &#8220;now i&#8217;m a surfer. \u00a0and i&#8217;m hungry, can we eat tofu?&#8221; \u00a0haha&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100058\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-22-at-3.59.16-PM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>\u00a0so after taking a 5 year old kid surfing, i went to pick up the 70 year old kid for an evening session. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100056\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-22-at-3.58.21-PM-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>\u00a0Asayama-san being so calm and confident. \u00a0after surfing all those crazy waves we&#8217;ve been surfing, Bowls was way too easy for him. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100057\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-22-at-3.59.45-PM-663x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"426\" \/>\u00a0i came into the shorebreak and saw something strange under the water. \u00a0picked it up and now i have a new Casio watch! \u00a0score! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100061\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0remember this fish from yesterday? \u00a0well, it was swimming in the ocean and now he&#8217;s on the dinner table. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100060\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_3144-e1553238689986.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>a wonderful healthy and fresh dinner to close the day. \u00a0thank you Mateus and Asayama-san for making my day so special. \u00a0i&#8217;m so happy and can&#8217;t wipe this big smile off my face!!! \u00a0goodnight boys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i got up at 4:30am and was texting my foil buddy till 6:30am. \u00a0went to get a couple waves at Diamond Head and had a great time. \u00a0then came home for my tax appointment when Mateus was waiting outside my house and said &#8220;unko, i want to go surfing.&#8221; \u00a0i asked him &#8220;ok, when?&#8221; \u00a0he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}