{"id":143847,"date":"2026-08-16T05:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=143847"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:47:14","slug":"crazy-girls-and-brothers-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=143847","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Girls and Brothers for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The two girls have been charging the biggest waves of the summer this year. \u00a0They use to be scared, but not anymore. \u00a0They look forward to surfing the big waves because nobody else wants it. \u00a0They paddle out in the dark and I’ve watched 8′ double overhead waves breaking on their heads. \u00a0The dive under, come up, and no problem at all. \u00a0Their calmness is amazing.<\/p>\n

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They can turn around in a second and paddle into the biggest waves. \u00a0I don’t have to scream “go!!!” anymore. \u00a0They just GO because they want to GO! \u00a0I’m super proud of them because they worked hard to be comfortable in a very uncomfortable place.<\/p>\n

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Round 1: \u00a0Seth beat Eimeo Czermak who is the best surfer in Tahiti and was favored to win the contest. \u00a0Then his heats got harder and harder. \u00a0Next he beat World Champion Yago Dora, next he beat Mexico charger Alan Cleland. \u00a0Next he beat World Champion Italo Ferreira. \u00a0That put him into the final of the craziest and most watched contest of the year.<\/p>\n

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Then he beat his best friend Griffin Colapinto in the final to become the 2026 Tahiti Champion! \u00a0I texted Seth congratulations and his reply to me made me cry again. \u00a0The emotions are pretty high right now in the family because we all know how big his dreams are and know how hard he works for it. \u00a0No other surfer on tour deserved to win this event more than Seth Moniz did!<\/p>\n

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So stoked to see my Tahitian friend Vetea “Poto” David who was Water Patrol congratulating Seth. \u00a0Tahitians and Hawaiians have a really close bond. \u00a0You don’t just become friends, you become brothers for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two girls have been charging the biggest waves of the summer this year. \u00a0They use to be scared, but not anymore. \u00a0They look forward to surfing the big waves because nobody else wants it. \u00a0They paddle out in the dark and I’ve watched 8′ double overhead waves breaking on their heads. \u00a0The dive under, […]<\/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-143847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143847","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=143847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143862,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143847\/revisions\/143862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}