{"id":239,"date":"2007-12-12T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/12\/12\/lifetime-friends\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T11:30:13","slug":"lifetime-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime Friends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>here are some photos from yesterday&#8230;..<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20071212162802.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071212162802.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n4 groms.  2 hawaiians, and 2 japanese&#8230;.  when these kids first met each other, they were pretty shy.  but when they seen the waves, it was a different story..<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PC120263.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PC120263.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis was kewalos yesterday around lunch time.  3&#8242;, off shore, and super fun&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PC120249.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PC120249.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\ngetting into the water at kewalos is tricky.  you have to jump off the rocks and time the waves perfectly.  i made sure the 4 kids got in safely and didn&#8217;t get hurt.  then it was my turn.  i slipped off the rock and put a deep cut in my toe.  shit!!!  that hurted.  i&#8217;m just glad none of the kids seen me. haha&#8230;  but i&#8217;ve been surfing here for so long and this was my first time i got hurt.  oh well&#8230;.  if i showed you a photo of it now, you would freak.  there&#8217;s a lot of sand and mud stuck in there.  i better get in the water to get it cleaned out&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/PC120261.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/PC120261.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nlike i said, when these kids met a few hours before this, they were totally shy.  my nephews can&#8217;t speak any japanese and the 2 yugawara kids can&#8217;t speak any english.  so how do they communicate?  through surfing&#8230;.  when i first went to japan, i couldn&#8217;t speak any japanese.  but through surfing, i&#8217;ve made lifetime friends&#8230;  i hope these kids do the same&#8230;.<br \/>\n*check out some snaps from the kewalos session.  i took video off my dig camera so the quality isn&#8217;t that great&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071212164758.jpg\" width=\"511\" height=\"394\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is shun on a 4&#8217;11 TSSC matchi shape&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071212164848.jpg\" width=\"479\" height=\"356\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is joshua on a 5&#8217;2 HIC eric arakawa shape&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071212164938.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"342\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is ryota on a 4&#8217;9 LEFT naka-san shape&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20071212165121.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"357\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nand this is seth on a 4&#8217;5 TSSC mike woo shape&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here are some photos from yesterday&#8230;.. 4 groms. 2 hawaiians, and 2 japanese&#8230;. when these kids first met each other, they were pretty shy. but when they seen the waves, it was a different story.. this was kewalos yesterday around lunch time. 3&#8242;, off shore, and super fun&#8230;. getting into the water at kewalos is [&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":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-go-naminori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}