{"id":138479,"date":"2025-07-19T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138479"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:55:12","slug":"making-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=138479","title":{"rendered":"Making the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138480\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4328-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4328-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4328-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4328-768x576.jpg 768w, 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drowned. \u00a0No photos today but it was a pleasure watching Masaoka-san riding the best waves of his life. \u00a0He caught 3 perfect Bowls lefts and rode it all the way. \u00a0I wish you could have seen his smile when he was paddling back out. \u00a0A great surfer, a great athlete, and a great guy. \u00a0He&#8217;s the first guy I&#8217;ve met that played baseball against Shohei Ohtani. \u00a0He actually hit a double off Shohei and I watched the video in awe. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138481\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-33-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-33-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-33-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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size-medium wp-image-138482\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4045-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing this Lamborghini driving around a lot recently. \u00a0I would love to take it for a test drive. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138484\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-30-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-30-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GPTempDownload-30-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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\u00a0It&#8217;s a fathers dream to surf with his son.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138483\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_9321.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a mothers dream to surf with her daughter. \u00a0Mai-chan and Kaila-chan making the dream come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We paddled out to Bowls early in the morning and as soon as I looked at my camera, I noticed water inside it. \u00a0OMG, another GoPro drowned. \u00a0No photos today but it was a pleasure watching Masaoka-san riding the best waves of his life. \u00a0He caught 3 perfect Bowls lefts and rode it all the 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