{"id":122322,"date":"2022-06-21T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122322"},"modified":"2022-06-20T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:49:13","slug":"never-fail-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122322","title":{"rendered":"Never Fail Again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99210\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2115\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve know Neal Miyake for a very long time. \u00a0he use to shoot Backdoor all the time back in the early 1990&#8217;s. \u00a0he&#8217;s a really good photographer with unique and artistic angles. \u00a0i saw him out at Bowls the other day and he was in the perfect spot when a took off on a set. \u00a0i knew he had a fisheye so i had to get really close.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99211\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220618_Kirby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so i&#8217;m flying down the wave on a very fast section. \u00a0i saw Neal and i had 2 choices: \u00a0one was to do a floater so i could keep up with the wave after the section. \u00a0that photo would have turned out average. \u00a0the second choice was to do a big turn right in the pocket for the photo, and forget about completing the wave. \u00a0and as a surfer, you have to make that decision in a split second. \u00a0one part of me wanted to float over that section because i could have done 4 more turns after. \u00a0another part of me wanted to do a turn so i could get the shot. \u00a0what did i choose??? \u00a0i chose the middle choice which was to try to do both. \u00a0and guess what? \u00a0i failed a 100%! \u00a0Neal did his part in capturing a close up super sharp photo. \u00a0but i didn&#8217;t do my part because you could tell by my expression, i was confused. \u00a0that one was on me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99209\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_5452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2079\" height=\"1123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>back in the day, my job was to get the shot no matter what. \u00a0so when i was paddling out, Neal was laughing at me because he knew i screwed up. \u00a0haha. \u00a0next time i see him out, i&#8217;m going to put my mentality back in the 1990&#8217;s and get the job done. \u00a0i won&#8217;t fail again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve know Neal Miyake for a very long time. \u00a0he use to shoot Backdoor all the time back in the early 1990&#8217;s. \u00a0he&#8217;s a really good photographer with unique and artistic angles. \u00a0i saw him out at Bowls the other day and he was in the perfect spot when a took off on a set. [&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-122322","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\/122322","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=122322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122325,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122322\/revisions\/122325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}