{"id":58894,"date":"2015-08-17T05:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=58894"},"modified":"2015-08-17T05:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T20:34:35","slug":"1960-surfer-magazine-cover-the-surfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=58894","title":{"rendered":"1960 Surfer Magazine Cover:  The Surfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.34.26-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.34.26-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-16 at 7.34.26 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58901\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhad a blast riding waves together with Naya-san.  he&#8217;s surfing while I&#8217;m on the side yelling &#8220;look straight, bend your knees!&#8221;  perfect!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.35.32-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.35.32-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-16 at 7.35.32 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58898\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNaya-san learned how to surf in the Philippines a couple of years ago.  and now he&#8217;s hooked.  that&#8217;s cool!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.33.48-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.33.48-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-16 at 7.33.48 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58900\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe sets were pretty big.  so we started off with the smaller ones and gradually made ourselves to the outside catching all the big sets.  i&#8217;m pretty sure it was the biggest and longest waves of Naya-san&#8217;s life.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.28.45-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.28.45-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-16 at 7.28.45 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58899\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand of course i&#8217;m always nearby for coaching and safety reasons.  sometimes too nearby.  haha.  i was posing in the back for the photo.  i don&#8217;t think Naya-san knew i was there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.30.06-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-16-at-7.30.06-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-16 at 7.30.06 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58897\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand yes, i was trying to get tubed again.  the waves were so perfect and beautiful!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-3.55.48-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-3.55.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-23 at 3.55.48 PM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58895\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nremember Jose Angel?  well, he&#8217;s not only my stepfather, he&#8217;s also the first surfer on the very first SURFER MAGAZINE cover back in 1960.  pretty historic event!  i&#8217;m so stoked to have known this wonderful waterman.  the same waterman that took me surfing for the first time when i was only 7 years old.  maybe i owe my surfing life to Jose.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-4.32.32-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-23-at-4.32.32-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-23 at 4.32.32 PM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-58896\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJose&#8217;s saying was &#8220;I&#8217;m so stoked.  Every single day is like my whole life.  I live it that way.  I live each day like it&#8217;s the last.&#8221;<br \/>\nwhen i read this for the first time a month ago, i got the craziest chicken skin.  now i feel so connected to a man that taught me so many things in life.  so many things in life that i&#8217;m living right now.  i&#8217;m so stoked too.  i live every day like it&#8217;s my last.  now i&#8217;m wondering if i got it from Jose?   he was a survivor.  he could live off the land and sea.  when he went missing at sea, many people thought he&#8217;s still alive.  i wouldn&#8217;t doubt that him and his best friend Eddie Aikau are living happily on a secluded island surfing the best waves ever.  the legend continues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>had a blast riding waves together with Naya-san. he&#8217;s surfing while I&#8217;m on the side yelling &#8220;look straight, bend your knees!&#8221; perfect! Naya-san learned how to surf in the Philippines a couple of years ago. and now he&#8217;s hooked. that&#8217;s cool! the sets were pretty big. so we started off with the smaller ones and [&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-58894","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\/58894","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=58894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}