{"id":103307,"date":"2019-07-13T05:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103307"},"modified":"2019-07-13T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:54:56","slug":"homemade-umeshu-from-niwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103307","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Umeshu from Niwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103314\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.38.36-PM-663x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"381\" \/>\u00a0i planned to surf Bowls at the perfect time. \u00a0perfect tide, perfect swell, and perfect size. \u00a0the only strange thing that there were only 2 other guys out??? \u00a0so Nakahodo-san and I had all the waves we wanted! \u00a0 where is everybody???<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103313\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.36.21-PM-663x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"441\" \/>\u00a0Nakahodo-san is getting really good! \u00a0he kept on catching wave after wave and riding it super long. \u00a0 look how crowded it is? \u00a0haha&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103318\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.36.31-PM-663x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"430\" \/>\u00a0once you get to this point where you can control the foil like this, you will get better super fast. \u00a0the hard part is done!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103317\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.38.16-PM-663x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"442\" \/>\u00a0the water was super clean. \u00a0i got to see turtles and this nice omilu swim by. \u00a0it looked so delicious! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103310\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.35.07-PM-663x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"388\" \/>\u00a0the amazing thing about Nakahodo-san is that knows how to fall too. \u00a0fall sideward and away from the foil like this.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103308\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.35.32-PM-663x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/>\u00a0as for me, i never gave up foiling even after getting hurt. \u00a0if i did, i&#8217;d be half a man. \u00a0but now, i feel like i&#8217;ve overcome one of the hardest challenges of my life. \u00a0anything his possible from now on! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103311\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.38.57-PM-663x408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"408\" \/>\u00a0Nakahodo-san wishes Toda-san could see his foiling. \u00a0but i didn&#8217;t miss a thing. \u00a0it&#8217;s all smiling from now on! \u00a0good job flying!!!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103309\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6828.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0want to thank Nao-san for the goodies!!! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103312\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-03-at-3.05.20-PM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>\u00a0i get requests to surf certain spots months in advance. \u00a0sometimes the spot is good, sometimes it isn&#8217;t. \u00a0i have absolutely no control over that. \u00a0but what i have control is that i can figure out what spot would be best for you on any given day. \u00a0 no surf report can give you this information, it&#8217;s figuring it out on your own. \u00a0this day, Nao-san and i had the whole ocean to ourselves. \u00a0thank you to the surf report for sending everybody somewhere else, and thank you Todaheli for capturing the magical moment&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103315\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6827.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0and thank you Yuri-san from Niwa for the homemade umeshu! \u00a0i can&#8217;t wait to open it up!!! \u00a0cheers!!!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103316\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-09-at-1.00.40-PM-663x415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"415\" \/>and to Toda-san and Takami-san. \u00a0we all miss you here in Hawaii! \u00a0hope to see you guys again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0i planned to surf Bowls at the perfect time. \u00a0perfect tide, perfect swell, and perfect size. \u00a0the only strange thing that there were only 2 other guys out??? \u00a0so Nakahodo-san and I had all the waves we wanted! \u00a0 where is everybody???\u00a0Nakahodo-san is getting really good! \u00a0he kept on catching wave after wave and riding [&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-103307","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\/103307","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=103307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}