{"id":44254,"date":"2014-04-13T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T07:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=44254"},"modified":"2014-04-13T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T07:40:21","slug":"slip-tip-or-double-barb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=44254","title":{"rendered":"Slip Tip or Double Barb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-29.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44261\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nso happy to pick up my new Matchi Shape from TSSC board.  now i&#8217;m going to wax it up and give it a try this week.  can&#8217;t wait!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-113.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-113.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44260\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter over 30 years of getting new boards, i&#8217;m still excited!  i remember sleeping with my first few boards, hugging it all night long.  sounds so stupid but that&#8217;s how happy i was, and still am.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-58.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-58.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44244\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;m new to using a big tuna speargun so after making mistake after mistake, i took it into Maui Sporting Goods to have Wendell Ko take a look at it.  Wendell is the hawaiian spear fisherman who just speared the 500lbs. world record marlin so he knows what he&#8217;s doing.  good to get advise from everybody.  i&#8217;m going to take a long flight to a very far place to spear the biggest fish in my life so i better be prepared.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RIFFE_SHAFT_X2.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RIFFE_SHAFT_X2.1.jpg\" alt=\"RIFFE_SHAFT_X2.1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44252\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is called a slip tip.  just for this piece of metal, it cost $100. so when i lost my slip tip yesterday in the ocean, it was like watching $100 sink into the deep blue.  i bought another one today and hopefully it will produce me some sashimi.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMAG0926.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMAG0926.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0926\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44251\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand this is a double barb setup.  $30 for this and everybody tells me that this won&#8217;t work if i want to catch a big tuna.  that makes me want to try it.  we shall see.<br \/>\nanyway, big free dive trip coming up soon so i&#8217;ve been busy getting my gear and confidence ready.  and after spending so much money on gear recently, i&#8217;m not sure how my confidence will hold up.  i still have 2 days open to practice shooting a gun i&#8217;m unfamiliar with.  i&#8217;m actually getting nervous as time is running out.<br \/>\nby the way, the waves were small today but super fun.  it&#8217;s not the wave you&#8217;re surfing, it&#8217;s who you&#8217;re surfing with.  if i could laugh out loud, i&#8217;m having a great session!  tomorrow double surf session so better get to sleep.  goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so happy to pick up my new Matchi Shape from TSSC board. now i&#8217;m going to wax it up and give it a try this week. can&#8217;t wait! after over 30 years of getting new boards, i&#8217;m still excited! i remember sleeping with my first few boards, hugging it all night long. sounds so stupid [&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-44254","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\/44254","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=44254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}