{"id":135135,"date":"2024-11-18T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=135135"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:35:03","slug":"blinding-offshore-kaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=135135","title":{"rendered":"Blinding Offshore Kaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135136\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-800x476.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-800x476.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-1068x636.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919-706x420.jpg 706w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4919.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were driving down the mountain this morning and I could see the waves breaking so perfectly. \u00a0Just like yesterday, my heart started pumping and I was so excited. \u00a0I surfed here before so I knew it was going to be epic! \u00a0My first wave was blinding. \u00a0It was so windy offshore that I couldn&#8217;t see a thing taking off on the waves. \u00a0I just paddled my hardest and let the muscle memory do the rest. \u00a0Gosh, it felt so good catching a wave I knew was going to break perfectly for a very long time! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135138\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4932.jpg 1569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This wave is so perfect that it&#8217;s like a dream wave. \u00a0You&#8217;re going full speed and the wave keeps on going and going. \u00a0There is no wave comparable to this in Hawaii and if there were, there would be a thousand surfers fighting for it. \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135137\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4921.jpg 1453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After multiple trips to Taiwan over a three decade span, this was the best waves I ever scored here. \u00a0You never know what to expect and when you get something like this, it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135139\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-1068x713.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4936.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I came in after Round 1 and we paddled right back out for Round 2. \u00a0OMG, Kimura-san caught a pretty big wave and rode it right over the sharp shallow reef right over the rocks. \u00a0I closed my eyes watching that because I knew he was going to get hurt. \u00a0Thank goodness his wetsuit saved his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were driving down the mountain this morning and I could see the waves breaking so perfectly. \u00a0Just like yesterday, my heart started pumping and I was so excited. \u00a0I surfed here before so I knew it was going to be epic! \u00a0My first wave was blinding. \u00a0It was so windy offshore that I couldn&#8217;t [&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-135135","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\/135135","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=135135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135140,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135135\/revisions\/135140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}