{"id":129543,"date":"2023-11-15T05:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=129543"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T06:02:00","slug":"krui-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=129543","title":{"rendered":"Paddle hard, commit, and hope for the best!"},"content":{"rendered":"

More photos from our 2018 Krui trip.<\/p>\n

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Traveling takes time, patience, understanding, and flexibility. \u00a0You have to be willing to take chances, willing for change, and willing to learn. \u00a0Kimura-san and I usually look for the cutest girl at the airport counter, speak very nicely, and hope for the best. \u00a0It never works. \u00a0Haha. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

On the last day of this trip, I got shocking news of a dear friend that suddenly passed away. \u00a0I went numb. \u00a0My mind wasn’t working, neither was my body. \u00a0I totally shut down and all I wanted to do was to go home. \u00a0So looking back at these photos makes me sad, but at the same time, makes me appreciate life. \u00a0Looks like we scored yeah? \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Matsu taking off deep. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Matsu and Eri-chan waiting for the perfect wave. \"\"<\/p>\n

When the mega swell hit, the whole ocean came alive. \u00a0I’m not going to lie, I was kind of nervous paddling out to this spot. \u00a0A spot I’ve never surfed, never heard of, or never seen before. \u00a0I knew paddling out on my 6’2 was going to be a challenge on these monster 10′ waves. \u00a0Look how small that guy is! \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

There were only 3 of us surfers out. \u00a0This wave came in and nobody even looked at it. \u00a0Nobody wanted any part of it. \u00a0I was wondering why so when I turned around to paddle for it, I looked back into the tube and said “no thank you!” \u00a0If you make a mistake out here, you will die. \u00a0Nobody was rushing into waves and we all ended up taking turns. \u00a0One of the few times I didn’t want a turn but when I was up, I had to go. \u00a0Paddle hard, commit, and hope for the best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More photos from our 2018 Krui trip. Traveling takes time, patience, understanding, and flexibility. \u00a0You have to be willing to take chances, willing for change, and willing to learn. \u00a0Kimura-san and I usually look for the cutest girl at the airport counter, speak very nicely, and hope for the best. \u00a0It never works. \u00a0Haha. \u00a0 […]<\/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-129543","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\/129543","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=129543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129552,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129543\/revisions\/129552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}