{"id":138468,"date":"2025-07-18T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138468"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:40:24","slug":"best-day-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138468","title":{"rendered":"Best day of my LIFE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138469\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-127-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-127-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-127-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-127-768x576.jpg 768w, 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ocean and perfect waves once again.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138470\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-128.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hashimoto-san on his first warm up wave. \u00a0Feeling the surfboard, getting your body loose, and getting the blood flowing. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138471\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-129.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, Toda-san gave Hashimoto-san some advice. \u00a0He said &#8220;you have to paddle harder!!!!&#8221; \u00a0Ever since then, Hashimoto-san has been paddling harder and harder. \u00a0Now he&#8217;s catching the majority of the waves he paddles for. \u00a0Catching more waves means you get more practice. \u00a0And when you get more opportunity to practice, you will surf better and better. \u00a0This is the best off the lip I&#8217;ve seen him do so far. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138472\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-130-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-130-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-130-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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perfect Bowls wave came right to us. \u00a0Hashimoto-san rode it perfectly from start to finish. \u00a0After he rode it all the way in, he told me &#8220;that was the best wave of my life!&#8221; \u00a0He paddled in a very happy surfer of the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful sunrise early this morning. \u00a0Calm ocean and perfect waves once again. Hashimoto-san on his first warm up wave. \u00a0Feeling the surfboard, getting your body loose, and getting the blood flowing. \u00a0 Two days ago, Toda-san gave Hashimoto-san some advice. \u00a0He said &#8220;you have to paddle harder!!!!&#8221; \u00a0Ever since then, Hashimoto-san has [&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":["post-138468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138468","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=138468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138474,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138468\/revisions\/138474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}