{"id":115171,"date":"2020-12-09T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=115171"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:06:10","slug":"todays-hawaiian-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=115171","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Hawaiian Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>because of the coronavirus rules, we can&#8217;t go down to Pipeline to watch the contest. \u00a0so after my foil session at Bowls this morning, i watched the contest all day long focusing on one competitor. \u00a0that competitors name was Joshua Moniz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115175\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0871.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>i watched every heat he surfed and he surfed if flawlessly. \u00a0he was connected, he was smart, he was confident, and most importantly, he was calm. \u00a0Joshua was making barrel after barrel throwing up the biggest scores of the day. \u00a0i was screaming!!!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115174\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0869.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>the Pipeline Invitational consists of 32 of the best Pipeline surfers in the world. \u00a0to most people, this is one of the hardest contest in the because every contestant is hungry, smart, and knows how to win. \u00a0if you end up 1st or 2nd place, you will get a spot in the WCT Pipeline Masters! \u00a0that&#8217;s double the satisfaction&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115172\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-12.03.50-PM-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>Joshua was unstoppable. \u00a0in the final, he got two 9.6&#8217;s and won the event pretty impressively. \u00a0and it wasn&#8217;t normal Pipe, it was huge, crazy, tricky, and dangerous. \u00a0so winning today is a huge accomplishment for any surfer&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115173\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>since Joshua won, he will be surfing against Gabriel Mendina in the 1st round tomorrow. \u00a0the waves should still be good so stay tuned. \u00a0if anyone in the world deserved this, it&#8217;s Josh. \u00a0now he joins Seth so i&#8217;m hoping they meet up in the final. \u00a0i dream big&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>as for the Roxy Pro in Maui, it got cancelled this morning because of a shark attack before the contest. \u00a0hope the local surfer survives, and hope the WSL makes the right decision on how to complete the women&#8217;s competition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>because of the coronavirus rules, we can&#8217;t go down to Pipeline to watch the contest. \u00a0so after my foil session at Bowls this morning, i watched the contest all day long focusing on one competitor. \u00a0that competitors name was Joshua Moniz&#8230; i watched every heat he surfed and he surfed if flawlessly. \u00a0he was connected, [&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-115171","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\/115171","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=115171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}