{"id":250,"date":"2007-12-17T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/12\/17\/2007-billabong-off-the-wall-masters\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T11:13:40","slug":"2007-billabong-off-the-wall-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"2007 Billabong Off-The-Wall Masters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"files\/IMG00022.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG00022.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\ngood evening.  i tripped out when i found out the contest was on because i knew the waves were flat.  i drove out to the north shore anyway so i stopped by pipeline.  the were running the contest at off-the-wall and the waves were small.  head high sets and windy and junky.  this got to be the worst pipe masters ever.  i actually felt sorry for the competitors.  but if you want to become a competitive surfer, you got to be able to surf any size and any condition.  today was a perfect example&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG00023.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG00023.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis was the conditions today.  like i said, small and windy&#8230;.  andy irons, bruce irons, kelly slater, mick fanning, and other top 10 surfers lost early&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/durbidge0479pipe07rowland_l.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthe man of the day was australia&#8217;s bede durbidge.  bede was ripping every heat and surfed every wave perfectly.  he is the 2007 off-the-wall master and he also won the triple crown title.  congrats&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG_1189.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1189.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nno, this was not today.  this was last years pipe masters.  the waves have been so junk that i forgot how pipeline looked so i went back and found this photo i took at last years contest.  will it ever get this good in 2007?  with only a couple of weeks left and no swells forecasted, it&#8217;s looking grim&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/IMG00024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG00024.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nfuture pipeline competitors?  i hope so&#8230;.<br \/>\n**and just wanted to say thanks to keone watson and rainos hayes from billabong.  i went to the billabong house for lunch today and found my friend craig sako in the kitchen making the best grinds.   craig is the chef at the 5 star restaurant in the halekulani hotel named &#8220;orchids&#8221;.   the food he made was awesome.  poke, steak, garlic fish, fried rice, and some other killer dishes.  i ate 2 huge plates that made me feel like kalua&#8230;.[:??\u001b$B&#8221;y\u001b(B???:][:??\u001b$B&#8221;y\u001b(B???:] thanks craig&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. i tripped out when i found out the contest was on because i knew the waves were flat. i drove out to the north shore anyway so i stopped by pipeline. the were running the contest at off-the-wall and the waves were small. head high sets and windy and junky. this got to [&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-250","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\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}