{"id":103736,"date":"2019-07-30T05:18:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103736"},"modified":"2019-07-30T05:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T20:18:01","slug":"m2o-japanese-dreams-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=103736","title":{"rendered":"M2O: Japanese Dreams Come True…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"coming from all over the world to compete in the prestigious Molokai to Oahu race is a very special thing. \u00a0you have all of the worlds best watermen here competing to see who’s the best of the best.<\/p>\n

\"\"as for me, i’m cheering for every single Japanese competitor. \u00a0whether i know them or not, i’m still cheering for them. \u00a0and i was so bummed out that i forgot to take a Japan flag for Mayuki!<\/p>\n

\"\"as for me, my job is to show up and make sure Mao-san gets from Molokai to Oahu safely. \u00a0my eyes are only on this girl the entire time.<\/p>\n

\"\"and this year, it was Maki-san’s job to make sure Mao-san got her drinking water in the fastest time possible. \u00a0Maki-san had to jump in the deep blue ocean 4x knowing about the big sharks that were around. \u00a0one boat next to ours spotted a 15′ Great White shark, and another boat spotted a 12′ Tiger Shark. \u00a0i was also proud of her for even jumping in when i yelled “jump in!” \u00a0haha…<\/p>\n

\"\"prone paddling is much easier than stand-up paddling because the wind isn’t as much a factor. \u00a0 but when the wind is blowing 30mph in your face and the current pulling you back, life is hard on a SUP. \u00a0it seemed like it took Mao-san over an hour to get past this short distance towards the end. \u00a0i seriously saw her paddling forward, but actually going backwards.<\/p>\n

\"\"with the wind blowing one way, the current pulling another, and the waves breaking sideways, i don’t know how this girl got back up on the board after she fell. \u00a0do you know how hard that is after paddling 6 hours??? \u00a0where does Mao-san get all the energy from??? \u00a0unbelievable!!!<\/p>\n

\"\"this is the moment she crossed the finish line. \u00a0last \u00a0year i got the photo, and this year too. but this year was 10x harder so maybe that’s why it was 100x more emotional. \u00a0i even had tears in my eyes…<\/p>\n

\"\"what this girl endured was incredible. \u00a0i was lost for words…<\/p>\n

\"\"and to get greeted by friends must have been comforting.<\/p>\n

\"\"and also getting greeted by new fans….<\/p>\n

Congratulations once again Mao-san, you did it!!! \u00a0last year prone, this year SUP, next year foil? \u00a0 anything is possible when it comes to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

coming from all over the world to compete in the prestigious Molokai to Oahu race is a very special thing. \u00a0you have all of the worlds best watermen here competing to see who’s the best of the best. as for me, i’m cheering for every single Japanese competitor. \u00a0whether i know them or not, i’m […]<\/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-103736","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\/103736","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=103736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}