{"id":138110,"date":"2025-10-01T05:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138110"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:42:32","slug":"30-years-of-mr-miyake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138110","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Mr. Miyake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138111\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/080223_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/080223_10.jpg 750w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/080223_10-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/080223_10-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I met Neal Miyake one day in the ocean over 35 years ago. \u00a0He was always shooting photos at Backdoor so I&#8217;d see him everyday. \u00a0I use to think he was crazy because waiting in the impact zone at Backdoor is scary. \u00a0There is no channel so there is no escape. \u00a0So much power slamming on the very shallow reef so you&#8217;re constantly in danger. \u00a0You have to be totally aware because there is no room for mistake. \u00a0People have died out there so it&#8217;s very tense. \u00a0Everybody is watching out for each other, everybody is respectful, and everybody wants that &#8220;wave of the day!&#8221; \u00a0So yes, we all are taking extremely high risks. \u00a0Neal got this shot of me which looks pretty scary. \u00a0This one I came up with no scratches but that&#8217;s not always the case. \u00a0I&#8217;ve had to go to the Emergency Room many times. \u00a0High risk equals high reward. \u00a0It&#8217;s an addiction for both surfer and photographer!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138112\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250619_30.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 35 years. \u00a0We are older and wiser. \u00a0The stakes at Ala Moana Bowls are much lower. \u00a0 But we are still doing what we love. \u00a0Thank you Neal for the 35 years of creating memories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Neal Miyake one day in the ocean over 35 years ago. \u00a0He was always shooting photos at Backdoor so I&#8217;d see him everyday. \u00a0I use to think he was crazy because waiting in the impact zone at Backdoor is scary. \u00a0There is no channel so there is no escape. \u00a0So much power slamming [&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-138110","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\/138110","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=138110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139730,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138110\/revisions\/139730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}