{"id":101263,"date":"2019-04-30T05:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=101263"},"modified":"2019-04-30T05:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:19:03","slug":"foiling-school-copy-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=101263","title":{"rendered":"Foiling School:  Copy the Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101267\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.08.09-PM-663x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"377\" \/>\u00a0had a great time with the boys yesterday afternoon. \u00a0the waves and conditions were absolutely perfect!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101264\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.09.11-PM-663x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"410\" \/>\u00a0it was Kobayashi-san&#8217;s first time surfing here in Hawaii. \u00a0i couldn&#8217;t believe how much energy he had! \u00a0look at him ride this wave all alone&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101265\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.09.44-PM-663x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"435\" \/>\u00a0a little turtle was popping up all round us. \u00a0so cute and so free!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101268\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.06.28-PM-663x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"381\" \/>\u00a0Hattori-san is getting better and better. \u00a0he&#8217;s been riding all different kinds of boards so he&#8217;s realizing which is best for each situation.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101271\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.07.20-PM-663x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"413\" \/>\u00a0i just love these shots. \u00a0nice smooth wave with Diamond Head in the back? \u00a0super cool! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101269\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.11.03-PM-663x391.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"391\" \/>\u00a0Hattori-san averages 20 waves per session. \u00a0i catch about 10 waves per session and i&#8217;m tired. \u00a0i don&#8217;t know how he does it&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101270\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-29-at-1.10.07-PM-663x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"398\" \/>\u00a0and Kobayashi-san surfing so calm and so smooth. \u00a0i&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;ll be surfing in Hawaii again. \u00a0you can&#8217;t beat this feeling&#8230; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101273\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-1.17.27-AM-663x417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"417\" \/>\u00a0Snapper Rocks had a dream sandbar for foilers. \u00a0we were out there every day multiple of times loving life. \u00a0after the first week, we heard a rumor that Kai Lenny was flying over to foil it. \u00a0really? \u00a0 honestly, i was pretty dam excited. \u00a0excited because i want to get better in foiling and the only to get better is to foil with the best. \u00a0and yes, Kai Lenny is the best!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101272\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-12-at-2.55.15-PM-663x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"444\" \/>Peter King texted me and said that he and Kai Lenny were going to foil. \u00a0so i dropped everything and grabbed my foil, ran to the beach, and paddled out to meet them. \u00a0i was like a kid in school as the best professor in the world flew by me. \u00a0i was watching every single detail as he was flying over the surface like a bird. \u00a0to be honest, i wasn&#8217;t in awe about his foiling skills, i was in awe about the way he read the ocean. \u00a0 he was connecting ripples, swells, and little bumps like a puzzle, then using the wind and ocean energy to his advantage. \u00a0that&#8217;s the part that fascinates me, that&#8217;s the part where i want to improve. \u00a0 i think i have a good wide vision on where i want to go, but his was much wider. \u00a0i could see him looking even further out than a normal human beings eye can even reach. \u00a0it was an eye opener, and it was something that i&#8217;m try to apply right now in my foiling. \u00a0so i&#8217;ll be looking past Molokai next time i&#8217;m foiling, then if i run you over along the way, i&#8217;m very sorry. \u00a0haha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0had a great time with the boys yesterday afternoon. \u00a0the waves and conditions were absolutely perfect!\u00a0it was Kobayashi-san&#8217;s first time surfing here in Hawaii. \u00a0i couldn&#8217;t believe how much energy he had! \u00a0look at him ride this wave all alone&#8230;\u00a0a little turtle was popping up all round us. \u00a0so cute and so free!\u00a0\u00a0Hattori-san is getting [&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":{"0":"post-101263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101263","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=101263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}