{"id":113006,"date":"2020-08-18T05:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=113006"},"modified":"2020-08-18T05:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:44:02","slug":"injecting-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=113006","title":{"rendered":"Injecting Confidence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113008\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6523-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>\u00a0ok, if i were to tell you to choose a board, which would you choose? \u00a0i bet you chose the one on the left because it looks newer right? \u00a0 anyway, i asked Reef which board he liked and like most of you, he chose the one on the left. \u00a0then i told him, &#8220;when you have a chance to get a pro surfers used board, always pick the uglier one. \u00a0the one that&#8217;s turning yellow and has lots of dings. \u00a0there is a reason for that. \u00a0and that reason is because it was probably magic so he rode it more, and kept it longer!&#8221; \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113009\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-1.53.04-PM-663x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"475\" \/>so i see Reef paddling out. something was different. \u00a0he looked more confident, and more cool. \u00a0instead of waiting in the inside for leftovers, he went straight to the outside waiting for sets. \u00a0it was super cool to see that&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113010\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-1.53.51-PM-663x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"375\" \/>then he paddled into a set, did a bottom turn, and flew down the wave. \u00a0this kid is ripping!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113011\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-17-at-1.53.25-PM-663x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"435\" \/>watch out for this kid. \u00a0he will only get better and braver. \u00a0and the fact that he&#8217;s such a little gentlemen, it makes him look even better!<\/p>\n<p>by the way, Reef told me &#8220;uncle, the older yellow board works better.&#8221; \u00a0haha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ok, if i were to tell you to choose a board, which would you choose? \u00a0i bet you chose the one on the left because it looks newer right? \u00a0 anyway, i asked Reef which board he liked and like most of you, he chose the one on the left. \u00a0then i told him, &#8220;when [&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-113006","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\/113006","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=113006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}