{"id":62384,"date":"2015-12-10T13:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=62384"},"modified":"2015-12-10T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T04:53:17","slug":"we-missed-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=62384","title":{"rendered":"We Missed Hawaii!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.08.32-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.08.32-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 11.08.32 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-62390\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe waves today in town were perfect again!  super good and super empty.  just a few surfers enjoying all the perfect waves, including me!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.10.55-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.10.55-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 11.10.55 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-62389\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYamashita-san&#8217;s been surfing for 5 years.  when i picked him up this morning, i asked him if he can do a cutback.  he said &#8220;no.&#8221;  so i told him today you will do one.  through my experience, i believe if you can surf sidewards and go up and down, you can do a cutback.  it just takes the proper technique.  so i teach him on the beach, then i teach him from the water.  you can hear me yelling from behind.  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.11.07-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.11.07-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 11.11.07 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-62392\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter a couple waves, Yamashita-san did his first cutback!  then he did another one, then another one, and another one.  once you get the proper technique down, it&#8217;s so easy!   now he&#8217;s be going back to japan cutting back everywhere!  i seen Yamashita-san&#8217;s surfing level go way up today.  and he was so stoked!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.08.09-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.08.09-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 11.08.09 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-62388\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ngreat surfing Yamashita-san!  hope you enjoy the rest of your honeymoon in hawaii and have a safe trip back to fukuoka!  you surfed so good today!  and so was i!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.07.36-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.07.36-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 11.07.36 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-62387\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ngosh, i love Kelia&#8217;s board.  nice color and so smooth!  my friend just bought it and she&#8217;s freaking super happy with it!  i would be too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.09.06-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-10-at-11.09.06-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 11.09.06 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-62391\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nnice to see Chizu-san today.  she just got back from japan yesterday and told me &#8220;i missed hawaii!&#8221;  i know exactly how she feels.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_3130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_3130.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3130\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62385\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwent for some hot pho for lunch.  thank you again Yamashita-san for an awesome day!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_3131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_3131.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3131\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62386\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe best of the best in hawaii.  combination pho from BacNam.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the waves today in town were perfect again! super good and super empty. just a few surfers enjoying all the perfect waves, including me! Yamashita-san&#8217;s been surfing for 5 years. when i picked him up this morning, i asked him if he can do a cutback. he said &#8220;no.&#8221; so i told him today you [&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-62384","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\/62384","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=62384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}