{"id":121382,"date":"2022-02-17T05:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121382"},"modified":"2022-02-16T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T04:00:30","slug":"bens-exclamation-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121382","title":{"rendered":"!!!Ben&#8217;s Exclamation Mark!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>thanks to the pandemic, i&#8217;ve been able to go surf the North Shore a lot this season. \u00a0for the past 15 seasons, i was just way too busy. \u00a0so this year, i&#8217;ve drove out there the most smiling the whole way there and home. \u00a0i&#8217;m not only searching for the barrel, i&#8217;m also trying to better my free surfing. \u00a0and the only way to do that is to practice on powerful waves. \u00a0this particular day, i took out my 5&#8217;10 Vesso Black Jack shaped by Gen Asano. \u00a0my focus was to do a clean turn throwing as much spray as possible. \u00a0as Ben Aipa would tell me &#8220;always finish the turn with an exclamation mark!!!&#8221; \u00a0 so the last photo of this sequence is my favorite because even the turn is done, i&#8217;m still pushing my hardest to put an exclamation mark on that turn. \u00a0i think Ben would be proud of me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96554\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9727-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96556\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9745-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96557\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9747-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96555\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9748-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96560\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9749-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96558\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9750-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96559\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_9751-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thanks to the pandemic, i&#8217;ve been able to go surf the North Shore a lot this season. \u00a0for the past 15 seasons, i was just way too busy. \u00a0so this year, i&#8217;ve drove out there the most smiling the whole way there and home. \u00a0i&#8217;m not only searching for the barrel, i&#8217;m also trying to [&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-121382","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\/121382","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=121382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121383,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121382\/revisions\/121383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}