{"id":542,"date":"2008-05-11T20:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T11:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/05\/11\/volcom-vqs-results\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T11:51:44","slug":"volcom-vqs-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Volcom VQS Results&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIG NEWS TODAY&#8230;  i got a call from kelia saying &#8220;uncle, i&#8217;m in the final&#8221;.  shit, i was tripping out.  a week ago when kelia told me she that she qualified for the volcom contest in california, i thought it was the longboard division.  but i was wrong, she qualified for the shortboard division.  i never thought anything of it because longboarding is her speciality and shortboarding was just for fun.  so i figured she&#8217;ll go along for the ride.  then she made her first heat, then her second, then won her semifinal heat.  next thing you know, she&#8217;s in the final.  she placed 4th place in one of the biggest international surfing events of the year.   kelia ended up being the top placing hawaiian with a better result than defending champion coco ho.  and to top it off, she won $2,000.  i&#8217;m so proud of her and i bet this was my sisters best mothers day present ever.  kelia, uncle is so proud of you!!!  and now there isn&#8217;t just a longboard threat in the surfing industry, shortboarders better watch out&#8230;.  the only thing that makes me a little mad is that i told kelia last night &#8220;don&#8217;t fall, don&#8217;t fall, don&#8217;t fall&#8221;.  so she fell.  if kelia focuses more and completes her waves, she could have won the whole thing.  anyway, i&#8217;m still dam proud of her&#8230;  good job sis&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/day2_5.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nimagine me at home watching her heats live on my computer.  i was a nut case.  everytime she fell, i was yelling &#8220;sh@t&#8230;.  and i could hear my sister from miles and miles away yelling the same thing&#8230;. haha&#8230;.<br \/>\nGirls Final&#8230;.<br \/>\n1 &#8211; red      Erica Hosseini &#8211; $7,000<br \/>\n2 &#8211; blue     Sage Erickson &#8211; $4,000<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">4 &#8211; yellow  Kelia Moniz &#8211; $2,000<br \/>\n<\/font>3 &#8211; orange  Kyla Langen &#8211; $3,000<br \/>\n**i also wanted to congratulate nao omura for ripping it to the quarter finals.  i watched her heats and her level went up since the last time i seen her surf.  i guarantee she&#8217;ll win a big contest sometime soon&#8230;.  go nao&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIG NEWS TODAY&#8230; i got a call from kelia saying &#8220;uncle, i&#8217;m in the final&#8221;. shit, i was tripping out. a week ago when kelia told me she that she qualified for the volcom contest in california, i thought it was the longboard division. but i was wrong, she qualified for the shortboard division. i [&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":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-go-naminori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}