{"id":45500,"date":"2014-05-28T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=45500"},"modified":"2014-05-28T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:00:23","slug":"perfect-waves-perfect-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=45500","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Waves, Perfect Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_3025-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_3025-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3025 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45505\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe waves were absolutely perfect yesterday!  i couldn&#8217;t believe how many empty unridden waves i saw barrel flawlessly.  welcome to perfect ala moana bowls!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2942-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2942-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2942 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45501\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLocal Motion Maki Yamamoto always enjoying every wave.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2928-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2928-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2928 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45507\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsuper stoked to see Sara Wakita making the finals!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2886-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2886-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2886 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45502\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsuch a cute girl and great surfer.  i&#8217;m sure her dad Wakita is proud of her.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2971-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2971-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2971 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45504\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand another Wakita, Taichi.  following in his dad&#8217;s footsteps.  i can&#8217;t wait to see this kid charging 15&#8242; pipeline!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2961-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2961-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2961 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45508\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAngela Vernon in the finals!  i can&#8217;t believe this girl just started to shortboard a few years ago and is surfing so good!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2908-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_2908-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2908 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45503\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nas a photographer, these are the split second moments i like to capture.  doing the bottom turn, coming up to the top for an off the lip, sprays coming off the tail, determination, nice colors, totally focused, and beautiful diamond head in the background.  one of my best shots of the day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_3138-copy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_3138-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3138 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45509\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe final could have gone either way, Isaiah or Seth as winners.  the scores must have been really close as both kids were unstoppable.  Isaiah Moniz on top of his game!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_3135-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_3135-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3135 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45506\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSeth Moniz is the youngest of the 5 Moniz kids.  through the years, i&#8217;ve seen him get pushed around, seen him always in back of the line, and seen him always get the short end of the stick.  not in a bad way, but in a natural way of growing up as the youngest.  i use to tell my friends that Seth is going to be the most fierce competitor of the family.  now the time has come.  this kid doesn&#8217;t want to be last anymore, he wants to be first in everything he does.  the little kid taking down the bigger kids fair and square.  i love it!   congratulations to everybody who entered the contest.  you guys and girls are all winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the waves were absolutely perfect yesterday! i couldn&#8217;t believe how many empty unridden waves i saw barrel flawlessly. welcome to perfect ala moana bowls! Local Motion Maki Yamamoto always enjoying every wave. super stoked to see Sara Wakita making the finals! such a cute girl and great surfer. i&#8217;m sure her dad Wakita is proud [&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-45500","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\/45500","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=45500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}