{"id":159,"date":"2007-11-02T21:51:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/11\/02\/the-20072008-quiksilver-big-wave-invitational-in-memory-of-eddie-aikau\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T21:51:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:51:36","slug":"the-20072008-quiksilver-big-wave-invitational-in-memory-of-eddie-aikau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"THE 2007\/2008 QUIKSILVER BIG WAVE INVITATIONAL IN MEMORY OF EDDIE AIKAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  the waves didn&#8217;t get that big but it was really clean.  jumped in at kewalo&#8217;s this morning.  it was clean and barreling.  came back home to relax when i got a call from todd mitsui.  he and bobby were heading over to a secret spot and i couldn&#8217;t resist.  surfed for another couple of hours.  the waves were clean and fun.  no wind for the next 4 days so epic conditions.  see you in the water&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/lisa-bed-102907.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/lisa-bed-102907.jpg\" width=\"433\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nlisa anderson is my womens surfer hero.  she&#8217;s like the womens tom curren.  i remember a while back when i surfed a few asp contests, i would get nervous when she came out to surf.  she surfed so good.  better than a lot of the guy surfers.  anyway, she has a book coming out called &#8220;Fearlessness&#8221;.  can&#8217;t wait to read it&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/kaori.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/kaori.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"280\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\njapan&#8217;s next lisa anderson.  another legend in the making.  check out jpsa grand champion kaori-chan&#8217;s interview on go-naminori.com.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-naminori.com\/interviews\/index8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE&#8230;.<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/M_071017230301.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nhey, the invites for the THE QUIKSILVER BIG WAVE INVITATIONAL IN MEMORY OF EDDIE AIKAU is out.  it&#8217;s been a while since a japanese got invited.  japanese pro wakita is in!!!!  i&#8217;m so stoked for him&#8230;. and i&#8217;m pretty pissed off because they forgot to put my name on there too.  come on quiksilver&#8230;.  haha&#8230;.<br \/>\nINVITEES: (first name alpha. order)<br \/>\n1. Andy Irons (Hawaii)<br \/>\n2. Brian Keaulana (Hawai)<br \/>\n3. Brock Little (Hawaii)<br \/>\n4. Bruce Irons (Hawaii)<br \/>\n5. Carlos Burle (Brazil) **<br \/>\n6. Clyde Aikau (Hawaii)<br \/>\n7. Darryl Virostko (California)<br \/>\n8. Greg Long (California)<br \/>\n9. Ibon Amatriain (Spain) **<br \/>\n10. Jamie O???Brien (Hawaii)<br \/>\n11. Jamie Sterling (Hawaii)<br \/>\n12. Keone Downing (Hawaii)<br \/>\n13. Jason Ribbink (South Africa) **<br \/>\n14. Kelly Slater (Florida)<br \/>\n15. Makua Rothman (Hawaii)<br \/>\n16. Mark Healey (Hawaii)<br \/>\n17. Michael Ho (Hawaii)<br \/>\n18. Noah Johnson (Hawaii)<br \/>\n19. Paul Paterson (Australia)<br \/>\n20. Peter Mel (California)<br \/>\n21. Ross Clarke-Jones (Australia)<br \/>\n22. Rusty Keaulana (Hawaii)<br \/>\n23. Shane Dorian (Hawaii)<br \/>\n24. Sunny Garcia (Hawaii)<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">25. Takayuki Wakita (Japan) **<\/font><br \/>\n26. Titus Kinimaka (Hawaii)<br \/>\n27. Tom Carroll (Australia)<br \/>\n28. Tony Ray (Australia)<br \/>\nALTERNATES<br \/>\n1. Darrick Doerner (Hawaii)<br \/>\n2. Chava Greenlee (Hawaii) Aikau Pick<br \/>\n3. Kalani Chapman (Hawaii)<br \/>\n4. Pancho Sullivan (Hawaii)<br \/>\n5. Taylor Knox (California)<br \/>\n6. Reef McIntosh (Hawaii)<br \/>\n7. Tony Moniz (Hawaii)<br \/>\n8. Garrett McNamara (Hawaii)<br \/>\n9. Ross Williams (Hawaii)<br \/>\n10. Dave Wassel (Hawaii)<br \/>\n11. Ian Walsh (Hawaii)<br \/>\n12. Braden Dias (Hawaii)<br \/>\n13. Myles Padaca (Hawaii)<br \/>\n14. Anthony Tashnick (California)<br \/>\n15. Kala Alexander (Hawaii)<br \/>\n16. Keoni Watson (Hawaii)<br \/>\n17. Derek Ho (Hawaii)<br \/>\n18. Tom Curren (California)<br \/>\n19. Nathan Fletcher (California)<br \/>\n20. Danny Fuller (Hawaii)<br \/>\n21. Dustin Barca (Hawaii)<br \/>\n22. Koby Abberton (Australia)<br \/>\n23. Laurie Townend (Australia)<br \/>\n24. Manoa Drollet (Tahiti)<br \/>\nHONORARY INVITEES<br \/>\nMark Foo (Hawaii)<br \/>\nTodd Chesser (Hawaii)<br \/>\nTiger Espere (Hawaii)<br \/>\nJay Moriarity (California)<br \/>\n<font color=\"blue\">LOCATION:                   Waimea Bay, North Shore, Oahu<br \/>\nOPENING CEREMONY: Thursday, November 29, 2007. 3pm<br \/>\nHOLDING PERIOD:        Dec. 1, 2007 to Feb. 29, 2008.<br \/>\nTo be held on one day when surf<br \/>\nmeasures at least 20 feet.<br \/>\nBIG WAVE RIDERS:      28 of the world&#8217;s best.<br \/>\nPRIZE MONEY:             US$98,000 in prize money<br \/>\nUS$55,000 for first place.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. the waves didn&#8217;t get that big but it was really clean. jumped in at kewalo&#8217;s this morning. it was clean and barreling. came back home to relax when i got a call from todd mitsui. he and bobby were heading over to a secret spot and i couldn&#8217;t resist. surfed for another couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}