{"id":120359,"date":"2021-10-19T05:21:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=120359"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T02:43:59","slug":"the-perfect-wave-with-coach-ben-aipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=120359","title":{"rendered":"The Better Wave with Coach Ben Aipa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120361\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P6050149-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P6050149-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P6050149-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P6050149-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P6050149-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/P6050149.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Aipa use to surf Bowls rights every single day. \u00a0i would see him out there for years and years. \u00a0we would talk about the past and he would still coach me till the end. \u00a0this is the last photo i have of him in the water. \u00a0so this is my treasure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>back in 1988, Ben coached me for years. \u00a0he was strict, and yet quiet. \u00a0he never yelled at me before but i remember being super nervous at times. \u00a0just his presence was huge. \u00a0i would paddle out to spots as he would wait on the beach watching everything. \u00a0i remember him always telling me to be aggressive. \u00a0he knew my level of surfing wasn&#8217;t close to the top surfers in Hawaii so if i wanted to win heats, i would have to get better waves then my competition. \u00a0and guess what? \u00a0it worked many times. \u00a0i would beat better surfers simply by getting better waves then them. \u00a0throughout the years, all i did was look for the best waves on any given day. \u00a0thank you Coach Ben!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ben Aipa use to surf Bowls rights every single day. \u00a0i would see him out there for years and years. \u00a0we would talk about the past and he would still coach me till the end. \u00a0this is the last photo i have of him in the water. \u00a0so this is my treasure&#8230; back in [&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-120359","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\/120359","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=120359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120363,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120359\/revisions\/120363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}