{"id":123,"date":"2007-10-12T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T06:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/10\/12\/hardcore-japanese-womens-pro-surfer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T06:21:17","slug":"hardcore-japanese-womens-pro-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore Japanese Women&#039;s Pro Surfer&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN0784.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been in japan for a long time and have been watching women surfers come and go.  sei nagai has been there from the beginning and is still here now.  i met her in shikoku 15 years ago and it blew my mind how good she surfed.  sei-san would always be out on the good days looking for barrels.  i surfed with her on some big days in shikoku, hawaii, and samoa.  i remember about 6 years ago when i saw a photo of her in the sickest big blue backdoor barrel.  it ended up being a spread in the surfing world magazine and if she were a guy, it would have been a cover shot for sure.  the kind of photo that men dream of getting&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sfirst.sei.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni went on a surf trip to samoa with sei-san a while ago.  she was the only girl there and she was keeping up with the boys.  the waves were 6-8&#8242; + everyday and she was out on every session with us.  i was on the boat sitting next to photographer kinsan watching the waves when i seen this huge freak set out the back.  everybody started stroking to the outside and sei-san just turned around and charged.  i remember yelling from the boat as she bottom turned and pulled into this huge barrel.  that wave was 8&#8242; solid and it was crazy.  i was so happy to witness something that i probably never witness ever again.  a girl taking off, setting her rail off the bottom, timing the wave, and pulling into the barrel trying to stall.  look at her right arm dragging.  oh my gosh, i almost shit in my pants.  here is the best photo of that trip!!!  i have it in my head like a permanent video clip.  something i will never forget.  yeah sei-san&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG2610.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni was in shikoku a few weeks ago when sei-san stopped by the tssc factory.  got this photo of sei-san and kinsan and was looking at it thinking to myself &#8220;wow, here i am with two people i&#8217;ve known for 15 years, doing the same thing we&#8217;ve been doing all our lives, surfing&#8221;.  that&#8217;s freakin awesome&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been in japan for a long time and have been watching women surfers come and go. sei nagai has been there from the beginning and is still here now. i met her in shikoku 15 years ago and it blew my mind how good she surfed. sei-san would always be out on the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-go-naminori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","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=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}