{"id":472,"date":"2008-04-04T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T11:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/04\/04\/interview-with-legend-pro-surfershapercoach-ben-aipa\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T11:34:55","slug":"interview-with-legend-pro-surfershapercoach-ben-aipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Interview with legend pro surfer\/shaper\/coach Ben Aipa&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaarainbow.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nkenji sahara took this photo of me standing on the beach at pipeline last year.  i love it&#8230;.  and when ever i see it, i start to miss hawaii.  the weather, the waves, my bed, my car, and all the aloha&#8230;  been in japan for 1 week.  flat waves.  good for the kids to surf but way to small for me even to stand up.  i did 2 days of stand-up paddling and but i miss getting barreled in my surf trunks&#8230;. ahhhh&#8230;  that&#8217;s the way i&#8217;m feeling right now.  but once i see a big sashimi platter, or some sushi, or a nice hot ramen in front of me, i&#8217;m not homesick at all.. haha&#8230;<br \/>\n**i was looking at yoko furuichi&#8217;s and yuko shimijiri&#8217;s blogs today and they are both in hawaii.  i&#8217;m a little jealous&#8230;.  wish i was there&#8230;  now i&#8217;m starting to feel a little home sick again.  i&#8217;m better go eat some good food right now&#8230;.  good night&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-naminori.com\/yokofuruichi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR YOKO FURUICHI&#8217;S BLOG&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-naminori.com\/yukoshimajiri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR YUKO SHIMIJIRI&#8217;S BLOG&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n**and last, check out this interview i did with legendary shaper\/surfer\/coach ben aipa.  bumped into ben one day when i went to check bowls.  he use to be my coach and taught me a lot.  in fact, ben coached most of the pro&#8217;s coming out of hawaii in the days.  including world champion sunny garcia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kenji sahara took this photo of me standing on the beach at pipeline last year. i love it&#8230;. and when ever i see it, i start to miss hawaii. the weather, the waves, my bed, my car, and all the aloha&#8230; been in japan for 1 week. flat waves. good for the kids to surf [&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-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}