{"id":4396,"date":"2010-12-12T03:27:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/12\/12\/300-years-of-surfing-history-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2010-12-12T03:27:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:27:57","slug":"300-years-of-surfing-history-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"300 + Years of Surfing History in Japan&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  hawaii marathon coming up tomorrow so a lot of japanese in hawaii!  minnasan ganbare!!!  i hope the weather clears up for them.  got so many things going on.  i looked at my calendar and there is not one open day until jan. 4th.  but like always, surf is first!  nothing big coming for a while so it&#8217;s small wave surfing on the north shore.  and also a possible small finish to the pipe masters.  that sucks&#8230;  well, got to get going with my beautiful day&#8230;.  hope you have a wonderful one!!<br \/>\n**35 years is a long time to run a successful company.  dove wetsuits has been around since surfing started in japan.  history in the making&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/12.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve never been to a party with so many people from so many walks of life&#8230;  there was a lot of fame in the air&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/13.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nmabo-san is famous in hawaii.  why?  because he sponsored the mabo royal contest at haleiwa for many of years.  that contest was the stepping stone for a lot of local aspiring pro surfers, including myself.  i use to look forward to that contest every year and i still have my trophy from 20 years ago&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/15.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nafter walking around the party for 3 hours doing cheers with everybody, i was a little buzzing.  so when it was time to take a photo with shun, i had to keep my eyes open.  it wouldn&#8217;t look good seeing a drunk uncle standing by this kid&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/16.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nif you were to add all the surfing years in all these legends, you would have over 300 years of surfing history&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/14.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthe wonderful dove supporters.  you can see why i looked so happy.  haha&#8230;    see you at the 40 years party!!!<br \/>\n**oh, we took a thousand photos of the contest and party.  we posted a few on the first day, now there&#8217;s a lot more so look for yourself.  oh, and part 2 of the video coming tomorrow.  stay tuned&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-namimori-j.shop-pro.jp\/?mode=cate&amp;cbid=883580&amp;csid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR DOVE 35 YEARS CONTEST PHOTO GALLERY ON GO-NAMINORI.COM&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. hawaii marathon coming up tomorrow so a lot of japanese in hawaii! minnasan ganbare!!! i hope the weather clears up for them. got so many things going on. i looked at my calendar and there is not one open day until jan. 4th. but like always, surf is first! nothing big coming for [&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-4396","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\/4396","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=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}