{"id":1354,"date":"2009-02-11T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/02\/11\/best-backdoor-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:35:13","slug":"best-backdoor-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Best Backdoor 2009&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  i paddled out at 6:40am.  the waves were 3&#8242;.  i took out my 7&#8217;0 because i knew it was on the rise.  by 8:30am, there was a second reef freak 10&#8242; set.  the waves came up so fast and i could feel the energy of the ocean.  the waves were as powerful as it gets and really dangerous.  i took off on a pretty good size set and pulled into a pipeline barrel.  it closed out and crushed me down into the reef.  luckily my foot hit first so i could break the impact.  i got held down pretty long and was trying to fight my way back up but couldn&#8217;t.  so many thing were rushing through my mind.  things like hitting my head and dying.  yeah, it happens all the time and has been happening a lot recently.  anyway, luckily i made my way back to the surface before the next set hit me.  i grabbed my board but something felt wrong.  it felt and looked like a truck ran it over.  it hit the reef so hard that it almost exploded&#8230;.  i came in, said thank you to god, and wasn&#8217;t going to paddle back out.  i have spare boards in my car but today was one of those days that somebody was telling me to slow down.  so i slowed down and took photos after that.  check them out&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG_5040.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5040.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nhere&#8217;s hayato maki hooking with photographer kamio at off the wall&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG_5054.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5054.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nwant to know how perfect backdoor was?  take a look at this photo.  it doesn&#8217;t get any better than this..<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG_5108.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5108.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nrockdance owner hiromichi soeda got the best wave at off the wall today.  he paddled out on his 7&#8217;4 tokoro and picked one of the biggest sets of the morning.  legend surfer&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG_5124.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5124.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis is what pipe looks like from backdoor.  heavy!!  mike stewart getting ready to pull in.  gallery up soon on GO-NAMINORI.COM&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20090211105039.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090211105039.jpeg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nand here is my poor new 7&#8217;0 surfboard.  i was pretty bummed out but once again, i&#8217;m glad it wasn&#8217;t me.  if it was, i&#8217;d be dead&#8230;  more on my poor board later.  for now, i&#8217;m going to sleep.  tomorrow should be another good day of waves out here on the north shore&#8230;  good night&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. i paddled out at 6:40am. the waves were 3&#8242;. i took out my 7&#8217;0 because i knew it was on the rise. by 8:30am, there was a second reef freak 10&#8242; set. the waves came up so fast and i could feel the energy of the ocean. the waves were as powerful as [&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":{"0":"post-1354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}