{"id":119731,"date":"2021-08-15T05:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=119731"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T06:09:52","slug":"cloud-9-vs-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=119731","title":{"rendered":"Cloud 9 vs. Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119733\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/52569-612x612-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/52569-612x612-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/52569-612x612-1.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is Cloud 9 in the Philippines. \u00a0it gets good like this once in a lifetime. \u00a0you need a massive super typhoon, right swell direction, right winds, right tide, and right weather. \u00a0back in 2005, i was getting the best barrels of my life on this day. \u00a0John Callahan was shooting from the tower and captured my most precious moments on an island off the Philippines called Sarigao.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-119734\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/p106-113_TUBERIDE_4-600x383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/p106-113_TUBERIDE_4-600x383.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/p106-113_TUBERIDE_4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is Rifles in Indonesia. \u00a0it gets good like this once in a lifetime. you need a massive low pressure storm, right swell direction, right winds, right tide, and right weather. \u00a0back in 2010, i was getting the best barrels of my life on this day. \u00a0Kenji Sahara was shooting from the water and captured my most precious moment on an island off Indonesia called Kandui.<\/p>\n<p>both Cloud 9 and Rifles are very fickle. \u00a0all the stars have to align for it to rise at its best. \u00a0back then, we really didn&#8217;t have reliable surf reports so not too many people knew when it will be good. \u00a0we just were lucky to be there at the right time for these historic days. \u00a0now that the surf reports are pretty accurate, there will be hundreds of surfers waiting for days like this. \u00a0and even then, you still have to be lucky for everything to be perfect. \u00a0so if you ask me to go to Cloud 9 or Rifles again, i would say &#8220;absolutely not!&#8221; \u00a0i&#8217;m not going to tarnish my perfect dreams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is Cloud 9 in the Philippines. \u00a0it gets good like this once in a lifetime. \u00a0you need a massive super typhoon, right swell direction, right winds, right tide, and right weather. \u00a0back in 2005, i was getting the best barrels of my life on this day. \u00a0John Callahan was shooting from the tower and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119731","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=119731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119736,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119731\/revisions\/119736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}