{"id":122957,"date":"2022-09-06T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T04:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122957"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T04:43:38","slug":"surfing-is-mental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122957","title":{"rendered":"Surfing is Mental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101055\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_7956-800x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>surfing is all mental. \u00a0i don&#8217;t care how good you are but if your mental isn&#8217;t strong, you will fail when you least expect it. \u00a0maybe the best wave of your life is coming right to you, maybe it&#8217;s the last second of a contest, or maybe someone is yelling at you from behind. \u00a0if your emotions get the best of your mind, you will most likely fail. \u00a0i see people falling on the best wave of the day, i see competitors making wrong decisions in the dying seconds of heats, and i see surfers dropping in on each other without even knowing it. \u00a0so my advice is always &#8220;keep calm and be present.&#8221; \u00a0 and if you can that, only good things will happen. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101053\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_7954-800x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and when you&#8217;re calm and present, you will feel every micro second of your ride. \u00a0and each ride will only get better and better. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101056\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_7959-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i see my students transform right in front of my eyes and it&#8217;s a beautiful feeling. \u00a0not just for them, but for me too. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101054\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_7664-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so now instead of yelling and correcting, i can just watch from behind and smile. \u00a0this is surfing&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101057\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_7957-800x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and this was how good the waves were this morning at Bowls. OMG! \u00a0the Endless Summer continues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>surfing is all mental. \u00a0i don&#8217;t care how good you are but if your mental isn&#8217;t strong, you will fail when you least expect it. \u00a0maybe the best wave of your life is coming right to you, maybe it&#8217;s the last second of a contest, or maybe someone is yelling at you from behind. \u00a0if [&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-122957","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\/122957","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=122957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122958,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122957\/revisions\/122958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}