{"id":114374,"date":"2020-10-22T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=114374"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:28:18","slug":"slow-down-and-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=114374","title":{"rendered":"Slow Down and Connect&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114376\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>my magic foil board broke yesterday so i was super sad. \u00a0this morning, i rode another one that is too narrow for me so i was kind of nervous paddling out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114377\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/>and the waves were kind of hollow so the take offs were kind of tricky. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114380\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-6.24.05-AM-663x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"406\" \/>so i get a few waves, made sure i slowed down, and connected with the new board, and also the perfect waves. i felt like i was foiling in slow motion but i&#8217;m still going pretty dam fast!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114378\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-6.26.22-AM-663x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"399\" \/>it took me 2 waves and i felt what this board is capable of. \u00a0then it was time to step it up and foil the board like how it wants to be foiled. \u00a0here i am finishing a backside cutback and setting up to return to the wave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114379\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-6.26.42-AM-663x446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"446\" \/>then i just go for it and hit the white wash. \u00a0i felt my foil wing pop out from behind the wave but i stayed focused and completed the maneuver. \u00a0so after all, i was nervous for nothing because all i had to do was connect and everything will be alright. \u00a0i teach that to my students, but still have to teach myself that. \u00a0haha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114375\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1362-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>the sun popped up and i went in a very happy man. \u00a0life in a lockdown is fantastic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my magic foil board broke yesterday so i was super sad. \u00a0this morning, i rode another one that is too narrow for me so i was kind of nervous paddling out. and the waves were kind of hollow so the take offs were kind of tricky. \u00a0so i get a few waves, made sure i [&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-114374","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\/114374","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=114374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}