{"id":129424,"date":"2023-11-07T05:06:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=129424"},"modified":"2023-11-06T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:41:04","slug":"20-years-of-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=129424","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129425\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-800x534.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-1068x713.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641-630x420.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_3641.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For about 20 years of my life, I would leave Hawaii starting in every April to travel the world. \u00a0Summer in Hawaii was boring for me because I&#8217;ve done it my whole life, so venturing off to other countries was so exciting. \u00a0I&#8217;d spend a lot of time in Japan and when the waves were flat, I use to drive down to the beach and people watch. \u00a0Many days in Shonan watching the surf craze happening right in front of me. \u00a0None of my family and friends in Hawaii believed me when I told them how crowded the ocean was. \u00a0Until they saw this. \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129426\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-696x522.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-1068x801.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-560x420.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-80x60.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235-265x198.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_4235.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then when October comes, I make sure I&#8217;m back in Hawaii for the whole winter season because this is what I lived for. \u00a0Backdoor! \u00a0In those 20 years, I don&#8217;t think I missed even one good day out there. \u00a0I would be there from pitch dark for hours and hours everyday. \u00a0Everyone wants the wave of the day, and everyone wants to get barreled. \u00a0So paddling out on days like this was very challenging and exciting. \u00a0Sometimes you have to be aggressive, and sometimes you have to be lucky. \u00a0I remember sitting outside next to Mike Stewart and when this huge set came. \u00a0Mike went left and I went right. \u00a0Left is Pipeline, and right is Backdoor. \u00a0Gosh, I wonder how big this wave was?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about 20 years of my life, I would leave Hawaii starting in every April to travel the world. \u00a0Summer in Hawaii was boring for me because I&#8217;ve done it my whole life, so venturing off to other countries was so exciting. \u00a0I&#8217;d spend a lot of time in Japan and when the waves were [&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":["post-129424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129424","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=129424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129429,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129424\/revisions\/129429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}