{"id":42879,"date":"2014-02-22T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T04:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=42879"},"modified":"2014-02-22T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T04:47:52","slug":"the-wild-one-at-wild-otw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=42879","title":{"rendered":"The Wild One at Wild OTW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>got up super early again and drove out to the north shore early. i haven&#8217;t been going out there in a while because of the terrible waves and weather.  so today was an exciting drive because i knew it was going to be excellent.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-121.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-121.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42886\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni pulled up without even looking at the waves, waxed my board, ran down the beach, and paddled out to 4-6&#8242; with 8&#8242; sets perfect backdoor and off the wall.  all i wanted to do was get barreled!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-222.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42880\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i see <a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kairi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kairi Noro<\/a> on the beach.  he said &#8220;hey kirby-san, how do i paddle out?&#8221;  i said &#8220;ok, come with me, let&#8217;s go together.&#8221;  we walked down to the edge of the beach and as we stood there, some freak 8&#8242; solid sets kept on coming and coming.  i knew it was way to big for him but if you wax your board, put on your leash, and walk down to the waters edge, you must go!  i told him, &#8220;you have to go out now.  if you get pounded, the waves will push you back to the beach.  hurry and go, i&#8217;ll watch for you.&#8221;  he said &#8220;kirby-san, please watch me and help me if i need help.&#8221;  omg, he was so cute!  he jumped in, paddled out, and survived.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-316.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-316.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42885\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe waves were epic!  the best backdoor i&#8217;ve seen in a while!  glassy, sunny, big, and perfect.  i was so happy to be back getting barrels.  i didn&#8217;t realize how much i missed it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-49.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-49.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42881\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni saw Kairi catch a wave, pull into the barrel, come out and do 2 big turns.  he came out and ran up the beach with the biggest smile on his face.  he was so happy to survive big north shore!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-59.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-59.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42882\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni met this kid when he was 8 years old, now he&#8217;s a teenager and still so dam cute.  i love this kid.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-d1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-d1.jpg\" alt=\"photo d1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42883\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsnack time!  thank you Kaoru-san and Tsuyoshi-san!  hope you enjoyed your first trip to hawaii!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-d2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-d2.jpg\" alt=\"photo d2\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42884\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand thank you Y-san for the awesome japanese treat!<br \/>\ngoing to sleep early because i&#8217;m going to the north shore even earlier than this morning.  have a beautiful night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>got up super early again and drove out to the north shore early. i haven&#8217;t been going out there in a while because of the terrible waves and weather. so today was an exciting drive because i knew it was going to be excellent. i pulled up without even looking at the waves, waxed my [&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":{"0":"post-42879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42879","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=42879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}