{"id":54799,"date":"2015-05-18T05:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=54799"},"modified":"2015-05-18T05:31:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:31:43","slug":"el-salvador-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=54799","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador Locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>after traveling for so many years and meeting so many people, i kind of know who are the good guys, and who are the bad guys.  not even a few minutes on the beach, i came across these two cool el salvadoran surfer dudes.  we talked, i asked so many questions.  one was &#8220;where will be the best spot to surf tomorrow?&#8221;  they pointed down the road and said about 30 minutes to the south.  i told them &#8220;ok, please take me there, i&#8217;ll give you guys gas money.&#8221;  they come to my hotel at 5am, knock on my door, grab my board for me, walk me to their car, and drive me 30 minutes south.  i get out and couldn&#8217;t believe how good the waves were!  nobody out and just perfect rights!  i grab my board, paddle out, the guys grab their camera and video, follow me, and shoot my whole session.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4690.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4690-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4690\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54800\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter it&#8217;s done, they take me back to my hotel, pull out their laptop, show me the footage, and everybody is happy.  I&#8217;m sure i found the best guys possible!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4691.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4691-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4691\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54801\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen we started to talk surfing stories.  this kid couldn&#8217;t understand why i could come all the way from hawaii to surf in el salvador.  i told him &#8220;i came here to get away from the crowd, surf a different wave, and meet new people.&#8221;  he looked at me and said &#8220;oh, you came to the right place for that.&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0388.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0388-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0388\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56071\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis was my first wave i caught on that trip.  i remember this perfect right point wave coming to me, i turn around, take off, bottom turn, and see the longest wall ahead of me.  so excited that i almost fell off my board.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0253.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0253-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0253\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56070\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ncame up the the perfect glassy wall and did a carve.  gosh, it felt so good on my first ever wave in central america!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0093.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0093-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0093\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56069\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i look down and it started to barrel.  i pull in, get barreled, come out, and think to myself &#8220;are you kidding me???  is this a joke???&#8221;  it was one of those moments where i thought someday was playing a trick on me.<br \/>\ni was the happiest surfer in the entire world!  el salvador is a place i will definitely go back for more dreams to come true. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after traveling for so many years and meeting so many people, i kind of know who are the good guys, and who are the bad guys. not even a few minutes on the beach, i came across these two cool el salvadoran surfer dudes. we talked, i asked so many questions. one was &#8220;where will [&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":["post-54799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54799","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=54799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}