{"id":136732,"date":"2025-03-27T05:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136732"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:25:34","slug":"backdoor-ride-or-die-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136732","title":{"rendered":"Backdoor: Ride or Die Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136733\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-800x496.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-800x496.png 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-1024x634.png 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-696x431.png 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-1068x662.png 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-678x420.png 678w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM-356x220.png 356w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.02-AM.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So here it is. \u00a0The final chapter of a wave that could have been the best wave of my life, or a wave that could have killed me. \u00a0Shortly after this, I got slammed right into the reef, bruised a rib, then my leg got stuck in a crack, and almost broke it. \u00a0So you can say I was lucky to survive with minor injuries. \u00a0I actually didn&#8217;t feel any pain until I got home because my adrenaline was sky high. \u00a0I was stoked, yet humbled. \u00a0One part of me thought I was too old, and another part of me said &#8220;one more!&#8221; \u00a0So the next day, I went again, and the next day after that, I went again. \u00a0The adrenaline of paddling to to waves of consequences like this in the dark is addicting. \u00a0I&#8217;ll definitely be out there again! \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136734\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-800x466.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-800x466.png 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-1024x596.png 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-696x405.png 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-1068x622.png 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM-722x420.png 722w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-10.41.22-AM.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will always wonder how crazy good that barrel would have felt if I made that wave. \u00a0The only way that will go away is to actually get a better one. \u00a0So yes, I&#8217;ll keep searching for a better one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here it is. \u00a0The final chapter of a wave that could have been the best wave of my life, or a wave that could have killed me. \u00a0Shortly after this, I got slammed right into the reef, bruised a rib, then my leg got stuck in a crack, and almost broke it. \u00a0So you [&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-136732","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\/136732","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=136732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136855,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136732\/revisions\/136855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}