{"id":124420,"date":"2022-12-28T05:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=124420"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T05:21:12","slug":"splitting-the-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=124420","title":{"rendered":"Splitting the Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124417\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-600x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-600x327.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-1068x580.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035-771x420.jpg 771w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0035.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you look good, you can see me paddling for this wave at Backdoor. \u00a0All those dots that look like ants are surfers. \u00a0When I&#8217;m paddling, I can actually see guys scrambling all around. \u00a0Every single wave at Backdoor, every body wants. \u00a0So yes, it could be like war out there. \u00a0I&#8217;m going right and Kahea Hart is going left. \u00a0This is called &#8220;splitting the peak.&#8221; \u00a0In that crowd of surfers, were some famous pro&#8217;s. \u00a0Ezekiel Lau, Barron Mamiya, Mick Fanning, Yago Dora, Rio Waida, Eli Hanneman, Joshua Moniz, and many more. \u00a0Pretty cool surfing with the boys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124418\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-600x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-600x387.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-696x449.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-1068x689.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368-651x420.jpg 651w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0368.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy that the take off spot is the exact same for the 35 years I&#8217;ve been surfing out there. \u00a0I lineup with a pine tree and sit right above a patch of reef I&#8217;m familiar with and just wait. \u00a0I rode a 6&#8217;6 Kerry Tokoro and it felt solid. I made every drop and no wipeouts so that&#8217;s success for me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124416\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0392-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0392-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0392-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0392-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_0392.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never thought I&#8217;d still be getting barreled at Backdoor at 55 years old. \u00a0I&#8217;m living in my bonus years so every experience out there is a bonus for my life. \u00a0I&#8217;m super grateful for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look good, you can see me paddling for this wave at Backdoor. \u00a0All those dots that look like ants are surfers. \u00a0When I&#8217;m paddling, I can actually see guys scrambling all around. \u00a0Every single wave at Backdoor, every body wants. \u00a0So yes, it could be like war out there. \u00a0I&#8217;m going right and [&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-124420","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\/124420","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=124420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124425,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124420\/revisions\/124425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}