{"id":32824,"date":"2013-05-16T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=32824"},"modified":"2013-05-16T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T03:03:40","slug":"bosozoku-%e6%9a%b4%e8%b5%b0%e6%97%8f-motorcycle-gangs-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=32824","title":{"rendered":"Bosozoku \u66b4\u8d70\u65cf Motorcycle Gangs from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, the hype is on!  every single surfer in hawaii is waiting for the next summer swell.  the boards are waxed up, the gopro&#8217;s are charged, and a lot of people are going to be happy this weekend.  6&#8242; solid south swell with perfect off shore trade winds.  big bowls and big rights will be the best for sure.  stay tuned.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.21.59-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.21.59-AM-640x344.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-16 at 1.21.59 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nit&#8217;s so amazing how fast information gets spread on the internet.  20 years ago, you would have to wait 3 months to see photos of yesterday.  but now, you can see yesterday yesterday, and today today.  this is yesterday in tahiti.  some amazing wipeouts!!!  this looks like a crazy wipeout but he&#8217;s actually in a safe place.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.22.13-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.22.13-AM-640x345.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-16 at 1.22.13 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34334\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis guy is going to get pounded!!!  ouch!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.22.27-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.22.27-AM-640x344.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-16 at 1.22.27 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34336\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nbodyboarders are so lucky because they can get into the wave much faster than surfers.  this guy actually has a chance of making this drop.  if it was a surfer, no freaking way!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.22.24-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.22.24-AM-640x343.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-16 at 1.22.24 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34335\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ndoes this look dangerous?  yes it does.<br \/>\nphotos by Surfline<br \/>\nwhen i first went to japan 23 years ago, i remember seeing a bunch of motorcycle gangs riding throughout japan. i couldn&#8217;t believe watching them make so much noise, racing in the streets, going through red lights, and even running away from the police.  it was a culture shock experience for me.  these guys are called the &#8220;Bosozoku&#8221; or Motorcycle Gangs from Japan.  and when this movie comes out, i&#8217;m going to go watch it.<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQtIBpR0iCE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, the hype is on! every single surfer in hawaii is waiting for the next summer swell. the boards are waxed up, the gopro&#8217;s are charged, and a lot of people are going to be happy this weekend. 6&#8242; solid south swell with perfect off shore trade winds. big bowls and big rights will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[880,10,11,44,881,13,97,750,882,883,884],"class_list":{"0":"post-32824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs","7":"tag-bosozoku","8":"tag-gallery","9":"tag-hawaii","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-motorcycle-gangs","12":"tag-photos","13":"tag-surfing","14":"tag-tahiti","15":"tag-teahupoo","16":"tag-tow-in-surfing","17":"tag-wipeouts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32824","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=32824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}