{"id":103510,"date":"2019-07-20T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103510"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:27:46","slug":"surfer-kid-with-big-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103510","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Kid with Big Dreams&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103512\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-20-at-11.15.52-AM-663x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"405\" \/>i was looking forward to this day. \u00a0a day of hanging out with 10 year old Leo! \u00a0this kid is so energetic, and this kid is so smart! \u00a0he&#8217;s surfed before so today my goal was to teach him as much as possible in the 7.5 hours we had together. \u00a0first, how to put on his own leash&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103514\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-20-at-11.17.36-AM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>Leo has only long boarded before so i wanted to get him on a short board. \u00a0you should have seen his face when he got up on his first wave. \u00a0he was so excited!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103513\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-20-at-11.16.49-AM-663x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"380\" \/>after a few hours of surfing, Leo told me his arms felt like spaghetti. \u00a0haha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103515\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-20-at-11.18.14-AM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>i have a great time teaching kids how to enjoy life, enjoy the ocean, and enjoy the moment&#8230; \u00a0just like this!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103511\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-20-at-11.16.30-AM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>after a while, it was almost to easy. \u00a0look at his confidence!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103516\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-20-at-11.18.39-AM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>good job Leo! \u00a0you&#8217;re amazing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103519\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7057.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>went to eat lunch, then took Leo to my favorite shave ice. \u00a0since he is 10 years old, i told him to do everything on his own. \u00a0this is how you teach a kid how to become a man. \u00a0learning from experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103520\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7061-e1563589455836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/>Leo loved it! \u00a0he was so happy after every single bite. \u00a0so cute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103518\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>then i took him to Waikiki to enjoy the ocean. \u00a0there are many toys over there so we ended up long boarding, then SUP&#8217;ing! \u00a0we were in the ocean all afternoon. \u00a0my battery died so kind of a bummer. \u00a0but we won&#8217;t forget the wonderful time we had together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103517\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_7072.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/>great job Leo! \u00a0i was so happy to spend today with you. \u00a0you are an amazing kid with big dreams. \u00a0and your calmness in the ocean is inspiring. \u00a0i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re already sleeping by now because you caught over 40 waves and paddled over a million times. \u00a0haha. \u00a0sweet dreams and see you again next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was looking forward to this day. \u00a0a day of hanging out with 10 year old Leo! \u00a0this kid is so energetic, and this kid is so smart! \u00a0he&#8217;s surfed before so today my goal was to teach him as much as possible in the 7.5 hours we had together. \u00a0first, how to put on [&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-103510","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\/103510","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=103510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}