{"id":455,"date":"2008-03-27T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/03\/27\/surfing-the-philippines-sairgao-cloud-9-part-1-of-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:00:38","slug":"surfing-the-philippines-sairgao-cloud-9-part-1-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Surfing the Philippines: Sairgao Cloud 9 Part 1 of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  6:45am and i just got back from bowls.  it was pitch dark when i got to the beach at 5:30am.  i was about to paddle out and this lady that was fishing on the beach told me not to go out because of the sharks.  i thought that was pretty funny.  she said that i&#8217;m crazy and as i was paddling out in the pitch dark, i thought i was crazy too.  got out there, caught my first wave and was surfing into the moonlight and the lights at waikiki.  it was totally awesome&#8230;  i felt like a kid again&#8230;.  i had bowls to myself until 6am when this guy paddled out and told me he was shocked to see me out before him.  i was going to catch 3 waves and come in but had too much fun so i caught 8 waves.  gosh, i feel so fresh and energetic now.  what a way to start off my long day.  i&#8217;m so happy&#8230;..  life is good!!!!<br \/>\n**got a lot of emails about the video i took yesterday.  yes, i did take it by myself.  somebody thought i had a photographer with me.  haha.. that&#8217;s pretty funny. i feel comfortable talking to myself.  i always do&#8230;.  haha.. just joking.  i just thought instead of writing my blog and posting photos, i&#8217;d try something different.  so i&#8217;ll be doing this once in a while.  i had fun so it&#8217;s all good&#8230;.  now check out this other video i made of our trip to the philippines last year.  anyway, i got to get out of here.  heading to the airport and catching a 9 hour flight to japan.  hope i don&#8217;t forget anything&#8230;.  back live from the land of the rising sun later&#8230;.  aloha&#8230;..<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20080326185700.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20080326185700.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n**went to the philippines last year for the cloud 9 invitational contest along with a japan surfing world magazine article.  i just put together a slide show of some of the photos and video i took.   gosh, besides from getting food poisoning, the trip was awesome.  good waves, good friends, good experiences, and good memories&#8230;.  check out part 1 of 2.  it was pretty long so i split it up into 2 parts.  hope you enjoy&#8230;.<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">**by the way, i found out that a lot of people don&#8217;t know how to use youtube videos.  see that play mark in the photo above, click on that and the video will play.  mahalo&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. 6:45am and i just got back from bowls. it was pitch dark when i got to the beach at 5:30am. i was about to paddle out and this lady that was fishing on the beach told me not to go out because of the sharks. i thought that was pretty funny. she said [&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-455","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\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}