{"id":136643,"date":"2025-03-18T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136643"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:33:39","slug":"backdoor-ride-or-die-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136643","title":{"rendered":"Backdoor: Ride or Die Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So as I was taking the drop, my fins slid sidewards and I couldn’t regain control. \u00a0I tried until the last second which was about right about now. \u00a0Now looking back, I wish I had bent my knees more because if I made it, that would have been the best recovery of my life. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

This is where I looked for a safe spot to land. \u00a0It’s crazy how fast things are happening but my mind is so calm that I have lots of time to think. \u00a0I was thinking that I’d better fall before the wave crashes on my head. \u00a0So you can see I start to angle my left shoulder down so I can penetrate the surface and not get sucked over the wave backwards. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Left arm first, then shoulder will follow. \u00a0I’m looking exactly where I want to crash. \u00a0That wipeout looked and felt super crazy but it was actually pretty safe. \u00a0But we all know that a safe landing is only part of the outcome. \u00a0Mother Nature takes control of the rest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So as I was taking the drop, my fins slid sidewards and I couldn’t regain control. \u00a0I tried until the last second which was about right about now. \u00a0Now looking back, I wish I had bent my knees more because if I made it, that would have been the best recovery of my life. \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-136643","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\/136643","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=136643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136742,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136643\/revisions\/136742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}