{"id":121245,"date":"2022-02-03T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121245"},"modified":"2022-02-03T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:30:49","slug":"every-heat-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121245","title":{"rendered":"Surfers Cheering Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today is Day 2\/2\/22 of the year. \u00a0wow, a once in a lifetime day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96248\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_1103-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the new WCT qualifying format is very stressful. \u00a0every heat counts because if you&#8217;re not in the top 22 after the 5th contest, you&#8217;re off the tour. \u00a0so if you don&#8217;t make the top 22, you won&#8217;t be able to surf the 2nd half of the tour which includes G-Land, El Salvador, Jefferys bay, and Teahupo&#8217;o. \u00a0so now there is no time for mistakes. \u00a0you focus, you stay calm, and you look forward. \u00a0Coach Rainos knows how to calm the mind of Seth&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96246\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_1129-800x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s been 2 years since we couldn&#8217;t watch Seth compete. \u00a0so this contest is big for all of us. \u00a0it was pretty funny because Seth had the biggest cheering section of all the surfers, including John John Florence and Kelly Slater. \u00a0if Seth caught a wave, you would hear us. \u00a0my friend said he could hear us on the broadcast too. \u00a0haha.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96247\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-02-at-3.08.22-PM-800x459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>when Seth wins, we all win. \u00a0it&#8217;s pretty emotional watching his heats. \u00a0if you&#8217;re there for finals day, come scream with us as he will have the biggest heat of his life. \u00a0it will be his first time surfing a heat against John John Florence who is a heavy favorite. \u00a0but when Seth the underdog, he preforms best. \u00a0see you there!<\/p>\n<p>thank you Nakahodo-san for sending me the cheering section photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today is Day 2\/2\/22 of the year. \u00a0wow, a once in a lifetime day. the new WCT qualifying format is very stressful. \u00a0every heat counts because if you&#8217;re not in the top 22 after the 5th contest, you&#8217;re off the tour. \u00a0so if you don&#8217;t make the top 22, you won&#8217;t be able to surf [&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-121245","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\/121245","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=121245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121249,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121245\/revisions\/121249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}