{"id":108609,"date":"2020-01-13T14:38:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T05:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=108609"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T05:38:24","slug":"12-years-later-japanese-super-grom-sensation-shun-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=108609","title":{"rendered":"12 Years later:  Japanese Super Grom Sensation Shun Murakami!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108616\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2094.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>made my last round in the streets of Busan. \u00a0stopping often and checking everything out.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108617\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2095.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>fresh abalone! \u00a0i wish we had these in Hawaii! \u00a0then i&#8217;d be an Amasan!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108612\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-13-at-4.34.00-AM-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>then watched the WQS contest in China online. \u00a0lots of people thought Shun Murakami winning the contest was unbelievable. \u00a0but not me. \u00a0i always knew this kid had it in him. \u00a0when he was 9 years old, i use to compare him to Seth.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108615\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-13-at-4.36.10-AM-1-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>this was Shun&#8217;s biggest contest win of his career. \u00a0and now he&#8217;s starting off 2020 ranked #1 on the WQS! \u00a0good job Shun!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108610\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/volcano-1-sh-er-200112_hpMain_16x9_608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" \/>\u00a0i was sitting at the airport in Japan and heard &#8220;all flights canceled to Manila.&#8221; \u00a0omg, there was an eruption! \u00a0and to think that was one of my options on this trip. \u00a0gosh, i&#8217;d be stuck there!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108611\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-13-at-2.10.12-PM-663x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"377\" \/>came back to Hawaii and it was pouring rain. \u00a0i had to ride my motorcycle from the airport so i was soaking wet!!! \u00a0but going at 55mph and having 30mph trade winds straight at me, i was feeling the 80mph (130km) raindrops stinging my face. \u00a0this is the best cure for jet lag! \u00a0haha! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108614\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-13-at-2.08.24-PM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>then went surfing in the pouring rain with Renta-kun. \u00a0Renta-kun went back to Japan for the holiday season so was stoked to be surfing again. \u00a0i came back from 4C or 39F freezing cold weather so i was even more happy to be back surfing again!<\/p>\n<p>i took this video of Shun Murakami when he was only 11 years old. \u00a0i brought him to Hawaii a couple of times and had him hang around the Moniz kids. \u00a0i wanted him to have Hawaiian lifetime friends, and i wanted the Moniz kids to have Japanese lifetime friends. \u00a0this is the rainbow bridge between Hawaii and Japan i dreamt my whole life about. \u00a0so to see this kid win a huge contest yesterday, i was very very happy. \u00a0at 11 years old, his dream was to make the WCT. \u00a0so was Seth&#8217;s. \u00a0so yeah, now it&#8217;s your turn Shun! \u00a0please be the first Japanese to ever do it!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"O2lfyBxk-1k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u65e5\u672c,\u30b9\u30fc\u30d1\u30fc\u30ad\u30c3\u30ba,\u30b5\u30fc\u30d5\u30a1\u30fc,\u5b50\u4f9b,Japan&#039;s Future Surfing Sensation....\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2lfyBxk-1k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>made my last round in the streets of Busan. \u00a0stopping often and checking everything out.fresh abalone! \u00a0i wish we had these in Hawaii! \u00a0then i&#8217;d be an Amasan!then watched the WQS contest in China online. \u00a0lots of people thought Shun Murakami winning the contest was unbelievable. \u00a0but not me. \u00a0i always knew this kid had [&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-108609","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\/108609","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=108609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}