{"id":60931,"date":"2015-10-21T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=60931"},"modified":"2015-10-21T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:58:07","slug":"challenge-yourself-go-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=60931","title":{"rendered":"Knockout Turtle Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.48.41-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.48.41-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.48.41 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60933\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been surfing with Ikuko-san for a couple of years.  when ever she comes, the waves are usually knee high.  yesterday, it was pretty big.  i knew she was nervous, but it&#8217;s my job to calm people down.  one way is to yell &#8220;relax!!!  breath!!!&#8221;  haha.  how can you relax and breath going over a mountain like this?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.43.41-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.43.41-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.43.41 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60934\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nonce we got out, the only way in is to ride a wave.  it was Ikuko-san&#8217;s first big wave experience.  so stoked for her!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.44.56-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.44.56-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.44.56 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60937\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand paddling out was challenging.  challenging but beautiful.  look at this awesome rainbow!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.48.05-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.48.05-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.48.05 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60945\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nanother wave, another day, and another memory.  nice photo!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.47.49-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.47.49-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.47.49 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60938\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni also taught Ikuko-san how to throw the board and dive under the wave.  she did a great job!  she went from knee high surfer to overhead surfer in one day.  see you again on wednesday!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.45.15-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.45.15-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.45.15 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60939\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni caught a wave and had a blast!  took off and tried to grab rail to get into the barrel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.45.32-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.45.32-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.45.32 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60940\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen did a cutback to the right.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.46.34-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.46.34-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.46.34 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60941\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen put my toes on the nose.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.40.36-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.40.36-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.40.36 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60935\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen kicked out and tried to get barreled on the next wave.  i think i&#8217;m having too much fun out there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.46.57-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-20-at-7.46.57-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 7.46.57 AM\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-60932\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is the very reason i don&#8217;t like to teach people how to turtle dive.  i teach people to go over the wave or dive under.  if you turtle dive in too shallow water, you can hit your head on the reef and knockout.  i took this photo just to demonstrate how dangerous it is.  and when i seen this photo, i couldn&#8217;t believe how close my head was to the reef!!!  i could have knocked out myself.  haha.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been surfing with Ikuko-san for a couple of years. when ever she comes, the waves are usually knee high. yesterday, it was pretty big. i knew she was nervous, but it&#8217;s my job to calm people down. one way is to yell &#8220;relax!!! breath!!!&#8221; haha. how can you relax and breath going over a [&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-60931","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\/60931","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=60931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}