{"id":34395,"date":"2013-05-19T05:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=34395"},"modified":"2013-05-19T05:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:13:59","slug":"big-ala-moana-bowls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=34395","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii First Swell:  Big Ala Moana Bowls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-2-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34396\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni pull up to ala moana park yesterday morning with butterflies in my stomach.  i just knew i was going to surf overhead waves and get barreled.  big rights is my favorite spot on the south shore once it gets over 4&#8242;.  i park my car and get ready in the dark.  first swell of the year?  oh yes!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-3-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ncan you believe there were &#8220;no parking&#8221; signs all along the park?  i bet you a hundred of surfers cars got towed yesterday because i came in at 8:50am and there were still so many cars there.  9am was the cut off time and i know the cops will be there in full force.  anyway, had a great session at big rights.  got a few barrels, seen Gen get the barrel of the morning, and had fun talking and catching up with my friends.  i love being in the water!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-5.png\" alt=\"photo 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34399\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i pass by bowls and it&#8217;s going off!  50 hungry surfers fighting for every wave that came in.  no thank you.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-1.png\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34397\" \/><\/a><br \/>\non the small days, you can see the lonely red buoy kind of far out in the channel.  that red buoy wasn&#8217;t too lonely yesterday.  i&#8217;d say 10-15&#8242; faces at bowls.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-2.png\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34398\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand when the deep channel closes out, you know it&#8217;s big.  it wasn&#8217;t a day for boats to go in and out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-4-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/photo-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34401\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni surf dawn patrol for 3 hours.  then jump on the harley and head to the airport.  board my flight, buckle my seat belt, and fall asleep like a baby.  9 hours later, i&#8217;m in tokyo.  got up now at 4am because of jetlag, eating breakfast, getting a massage, then heading to the airport and boarding a flight to hokkaido! i&#8217;m going to learn something from a totally different world today and i&#8217;m looking forward to it. have a beautiful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i pull up to ala moana park yesterday morning with butterflies in my stomach. i just knew i was going to surf overhead waves and get barreled. big rights is my favorite spot on the south shore once it gets over 4&#8242;. i park my car and get ready in the dark. first swell of [&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":[],"class_list":["post-34395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34395","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=34395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}