{"id":65776,"date":"2016-03-23T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=65776"},"modified":"2016-03-23T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:39:09","slug":"below-average-to-excellent-in-1-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=65776","title":{"rendered":"Below Average to Excellent in 1 Hour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i pick up Asayama-san at 2pm yesterday.  he didn&#8217;t look right so i asked him &#8220;are you ok?&#8221;  he said &#8220;i&#8217;m tired.&#8221;  i asked him &#8220;on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, how do you feel now?&#8221;  he said &#8220;3-4.&#8221;  i said &#8220;ok, let&#8217;s take it easy today.  let&#8217;s look at the waves and decide whether to surf or not.&#8221;  so we get to the beach and the waves were nice, easy, and perfect.  so i say &#8220;let&#8217;s go out and catch 2 waves.&#8221;  he said &#8220;ok.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-1.33.09-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-22 at 1.33.09 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65778\" \/><br \/>\nas soon as Asayama-san got in the water, i seen him revive.  then as soon as he caught his first wave, i seen him with the big smile like always.  rode that one perfectly.  then another one right after.  i knew in my mind that he would want to keep on surfing for hours.  he was totally genki!  BUT, i told him, catch one more and let&#8217;s go in.  he didn&#8217;t understand why?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-1.34.15-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-22 at 1.34.15 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65779\" \/><br \/>\nso he catches his 3rd and last wave.  we paddle back in and shower.  our session was only 45 minutes.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7689.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7689\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65783\" \/><br \/>\nafter he dries up, i ask him again &#8220;ok, now how do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10?&#8221;  he said &#8220;9!  i feel so good!&#8221;  then i explained to him how the ocean can heal.  even if you&#8217;re tired and down, one wave will revive you.  just don&#8217;t overdue it.  most people don&#8217;t know their own limits but i can figure people out just by looking at them.  i can actually tell how many waves it will take to get you feeling like a 10.  somedays it&#8217;s 20 waves, and other days it could only be 3.  the reason i know is because i&#8217;ve been in the same shoes my whole life.  sometimes it takes a lot, and sometimes it takes a little.  either way, i&#8217;m always coming out of the water feeling like a 9 or 10!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-1.35.55-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-22 at 1.35.55 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65777\" \/><br \/>\nthen we had some time to enjoy more nature so we headed up to the mountain.  the freshest air in the world!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-1.36.54-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-22 at 1.36.54 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65784\" \/><br \/>\nsometimes i feel like a kid.  sometimes we both feel like kids.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-1.37.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-22 at 1.37.33 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65785\" \/><br \/>\nafter this, Asayama-san told me &#8220;i want to stay in hawaii longer.&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7520.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7520\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-65781\" \/><br \/>\nthank you Asayama-san for the wonderful time and delicious custard cake!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i pick up Asayama-san at 2pm yesterday. he didn&#8217;t look right so i asked him &#8220;are you ok?&#8221; he said &#8220;i&#8217;m tired.&#8221; i asked him &#8220;on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, how do you feel now?&#8221; he said &#8220;3-4.&#8221; i said &#8220;ok, let&#8217;s take it easy today. let&#8217;s look at [&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-65776","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\/65776","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=65776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}