{"id":122139,"date":"2022-05-29T05:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122139"},"modified":"2022-05-28T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T03:01:09","slug":"chasing-japanese-typhoons-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122139","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Japanese Typhoons: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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see the TS? \u00a0that means Tropical Storm. \u00a0then the yellow color turning to orange, then to red. \u00a0red means “SUPER TYPHOON!” \u00a0i usually jumped on a flight to Japan right when i see the TS form. \u00a0we called it the typhoon egg. \u00a0meaning, “newborn.”<\/p>\n

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we use to chase those typhoons from Okinawa all the way to Sendai. \u00a0then when another “egg” forms, we would fly back to Okinawa and start the chase all over again. \u00a0sometimes this would go on for months! \u00a0so yeah, as a traveling surfer, i did my own laundry between swells.<\/p>\n

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this was one of the Super Typhoon days at this little island off Japan. \u00a0i can’t say where because i still want to be welcomed there. \u00a0haha. \u00a0i still remember how big and wild it was that day. \u00a0i rode a 7’6 gun and it still felt small. \u00a0it was 10-12′ Hawaiian scale. \u00a0 no lifeguards and no hospital. \u00a0so yeah, it was risky business…<\/p>\n

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and when we scored good waves, we would always go out with the locals and eat the best food ever. \u00a0omg, i miss that the most!<\/p>\n

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and sometimes we would have a Japanese bbq. \u00a0this was my favorite.<\/p>\n

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surf good waves and eat good food. \u00a0that’s the surfers life…<\/p>\n

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during those trips, i would only hang out with cool people. \u00a0Kaori-chan was Japan’s Grand Champion a few years and i should have known better to challenger her to pool. \u00a0she beat me pretty bad. \u00a0after i lost, i blamed the beer. \u00a0then we played again and she beat me again. \u00a0haha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

see the TS? \u00a0that means Tropical Storm. \u00a0then the yellow color turning to orange, then to red. \u00a0red means “SUPER TYPHOON!” \u00a0i usually jumped on a flight to Japan right when i see the TS form. \u00a0we called it the typhoon egg. \u00a0meaning, “newborn.” we use to chase those typhoons from Okinawa all the way […]<\/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-122139","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\/122139","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=122139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122140,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122139\/revisions\/122140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}