{"id":49855,"date":"2014-10-20T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=49855"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:33:07","slug":"break-your-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=49855","title":{"rendered":"Break your Magic Board?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>rained all day long.  i loved this relaxing day to work on getting my house back into shape.  blood, sweat, and tears.  started at 6:30am and still going now at 7:30pm nonstop.  rain should be stopping and sun coming out tomorrow.  bye bye hurricane ana!<br \/>\ni use to compete for about 10 years of my life.  like everybody else, i use to hate to lose.  sometimes it&#8217;s easy, and sometimes it&#8217;s hard.  i usually shook it off pretty quick.  throughout the years, i seen other competitors get into fights, throw things at the judges, swear, punch themselves, and even break their own surfboard.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.06.59-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.06.59-AM-640x323.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-10-20 at 2.06.59 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49856\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni woke up at 5am and watched the contest live from portugal.  kelly slater is a fierce competitor.  the greatest in the sport of surfing.  he had 3 chances in the past 3 contests to take the world title ranking lead, but blew it.  today kelly took his loss pretty bad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.09.05-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.09.05-AM-640x328.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-10-20 at 2.09.05 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49857\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter his heat, he went to the competitors area and demolished his own surfboard.  he broke it into 3 pieces.  omg!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.17.01-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.17.01-AM-640x376.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-10-20 at 2.17.01 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49858\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nyes, 3 pieces.  it takes a lot of power or a lot of frustration to break a board into 3 pieces.  then he ran back to the beach, and gave the pieces away.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.17.16-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-2.17.16-AM-640x373.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-10-20 at 2.17.16 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49859\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nyes, his fans were still happy, but i bet his sponsors and shaper weren&#8217;t.  poor sportsmanship?  you decide.  kelly hates to lose and i&#8217;m wondering what this 11 time world champion will do next?  and to all you kids that want to become a pro surfer, learn how to win.  and learn how to lose.  please don&#8217;t break your surfboard.  instead, give it to a kid that really needs one.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1476-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1476-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1476 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49860\" \/><\/a><br \/>\none of the reasons why i quit surfing contests was because of the stress.  i chose the lifestyle to be a traveling surfer.  just go around the world looking for great waves.  the most stress free job in the world.  and to experience simple lifestyles like this makes me appreciate everything i have.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1568-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1568-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1568 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49861\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nindo style kitchen.  so simple.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1570-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_1570-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1570 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49862\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis kind woman invited me into her house and made me a special drink.  i took a sip and almost threw up.  haha.  but i tried it anyway.<br \/>\nportugal contest finals tomorrow.  the world champion will be determined at the Pipeline Pro in december.  see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rained all day long. i loved this relaxing day to work on getting my house back into shape. blood, sweat, and tears. started at 6:30am and still going now at 7:30pm nonstop. rain should be stopping and sun coming out tomorrow. bye bye hurricane ana! i use to compete for about 10 years of my [&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-49855","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\/49855","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=49855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}