{"id":59555,"date":"2015-09-07T05:21:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=59555"},"modified":"2015-09-07T05:21:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T20:21:05","slug":"big-wave-big-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=59555","title":{"rendered":"Big Wave, Big Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.40.13-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.40.13-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-06 at 8.40.13 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-59559\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nok, here is the rest of the story about yesterday&#8217;s session.  i know Tou-san is a very energetic surfer because i surfed with her before and she kept on going and going strong.  so when we pulled up to the beach and seen the big waves, i was confident that she would be fine.  it was so big that there were only a couple of surfers out on a saturday morning.  normally, it would be packed!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.36.47-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.36.47-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-06 at 8.36.47 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-59556\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom the first wave, Tou-san surfed great!  great concentration, great control, great balance, and great rides.  and actually, riding the wave was the easy part.  the hard part was getting back out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.39.55-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.39.55-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-06 at 8.39.55 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-59558\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTou-san must have dove under a hundred waves or more.  some huge ones too but just kept on progressing forward.  i kept on telling her &#8220;swim, swim, swim!&#8221;  my surfer girl friend paddled up to me and said &#8220;kirby, you&#8217;re so mean to her!&#8221;  i told her, &#8220;this girl is strong!  i know she can do it!  so we&#8217;re going to do it!&#8221;  then she paddled away and said &#8220;you&#8217;re mean!&#8221;  haha.  then i started to feel bad so i asked Tou-san, &#8220;are you ok?&#8221;  she looked at me and said &#8220;yes i&#8217;m ok, i want more!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.37.21-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-8.37.21-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-06 at 8.37.21 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-59557\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhen i picked up Tou-san from her hotel, i asked her what the biggest wave she&#8217;s gone out in.  she told me &#8220;about head high.&#8221;  i told her, &#8220;well, today is your lucky day.  it&#8217;s way over head high so get ready to ride the biggest wave of your life!&#8221;  look good at this photo and you can see how big this wave is.  see that little guy peaking over the mountain?  Tou-san told me that none of her surfer friends in japan would believe her.  well, photos don&#8217;t lie.  this wave was solid 5&#8242; hawaiian scale and Tou-san was smiling off the takeoff.  wanted to say hi to my chigasaki firefighter friends.  and also want to say that your coworker is a very brave girl.  welcome to the world a new big waver!      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, here is the rest of the story about yesterday&#8217;s session. i know Tou-san is a very energetic surfer because i surfed with her before and she kept on going and going strong. so when we pulled up to the beach and seen the big waves, i was confident that she would be fine. it [&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-59555","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\/59555","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=59555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}