{"id":114143,"date":"2020-10-12T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=114143"},"modified":"2020-10-12T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:30:17","slug":"surf-your-dream-from-waikiki-to-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=114143","title":{"rendered":"Surf Your Dream from Waikiki to Around the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"on a dark side alley in Waikiki, there is an entrance to a parking lot. \u00a0and right where that green electric charging station is, there use to be a 3×3′ parking booth. \u00a0it was just big enough for a cash register and a stool. \u00a0so basically, it was made for one man to stand in there. \u00a0that man was me. \u00a0i was 18 at the time working in that little parking booth full time. \u00a0i finished high school and had no direction in life. \u00a0college wasn’t even in my mind. \u00a0so basically, i was lost. \u00a0i tried to join the Army but that didn’t work out. \u00a0i tried to join the Air Force but that didn’t work out either. \u00a0my girlfriend at that time use to sit in my VW bug all day making sure i was a good boy. \u00a0she even made me sell the only surfboard i had. \u00a0we would fight, eat hamburgers, and drink x-large cokes every single day. \u00a0at 18, i thought i had a dream life. \u00a0haha!!!<\/p>\n

BUT then, that’s when my sister started dating Tony Moniz. \u00a0Tony took me surfing a few times and i was hooked again. \u00a0i quit my job, enrolled in college, and most importantly, broke up with my girlfriend. \u00a0i became happy again, i became free again, and i became a surfer again! \u00a0from that time on, i lived in Japan, learned Japanese, did the pro tour there, traveled the world, and met lots of friends that are family to me.<\/p>\n

so every time i pass by that parking lot, i tell the story to whoever i’m with at the time. \u00a0and i always say “if i didn’t start surfing again, i would probably still be sitting in a parking booth somewhere in Waikiki. \u00a0my girlfriend would still be watching over me, we’d still be eating hamburgers and x-large cokes. \u00a0so basically, Tony Moniz and surfing saved my life. \u00a0and if i can help you if you’re stuck with no direction in life, i would love to help you.”<\/p>\n

so yeah, i went from rock bottom to living a dream life. \u00a0and all i needed was a spark to light my fire. \u00a0and my fire to live life to the fullest is still burning HOT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

on a dark side alley in Waikiki, there is an entrance to a parking lot. \u00a0and right where that green electric charging station is, there use to be a 3×3′ parking booth. \u00a0it was just big enough for a cash register and a stool. \u00a0so basically, it was made for one man to stand in […]<\/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-114143","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\/114143","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=114143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}