{"id":68581,"date":"2016-06-23T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=68581"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T05:34:18","slug":"my-best-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=68581","title":{"rendered":"Big Wave Surfing:  My Best Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.11.52-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.11.52 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68585\" \/><br \/>\nomg, the waves were huge again today!  twice as big than yesterday.  so before we paddled out, i told Ueno-san, &#8220;don&#8217;t worry, the waves are just like yesterday.&#8221;  i said that so he wouldn&#8217;t be so nervous.  but i&#8217;m sure he knew.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.14.42-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.14.42 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68591\" \/><br \/>\nand after surfing big waves yesterday, today was easy.  i was just watching him catch set after set.  some pretty big ones.  so cool!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.14.52-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.14.52 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68583\" \/><br \/>\nthen finally the perfect right comes right to him.  i yell &#8220;paddle&#8221; and he rode the wave all the way from bowls to rock piles.  that happened to be his best wave of his life!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.13.21-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.13.21 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68586\" \/><br \/>\ntoday was locals only.  Troy on a nice one.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.12.30-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.12.30 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68584\" \/><br \/>\nseen Kamalei Alexander on a super long barrel!  and he made it all the way to the end.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.11.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.11.19 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68588\" \/><br \/>\ngot my fair share of waves too.  lefts and rights all morning long.  very uncrowded lineup so the boys were just taking turns.  plenty of waves for everyone.  we surfed for almost 4 hours!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.10.55-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.10.55 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68589\" \/><br \/>\nbesides Ueno-san&#8217;s best wave of his life, he also duck dove the biggest waves in his life.  i told him after &#8220;congratulations, you just graduated from a small wave surfer to a big wave surfer.&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.15.08-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.15.08 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68582\" \/><br \/>\nanother day of another surfer exceeding his expectations.  great job Ueno-san.  i hope you enjoyed your first trip and first surf in big wave hawaii!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.15.36-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.15.36 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68592\" \/><br \/>\nafter i dropped off Ueno-san, i went straight back into the ocean.  back to my favorite right hander that always provides the best barrels around.  surfed for over 3 hours making my total 7.5 hours of surfing today.  sunburnt and so happy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-11.13.38-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 11.13.38 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-68590\" \/><br \/>\nmore waves all week.  and another south swell coming too.  so happy to be right here where i want to be, in the barrel!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>omg, the waves were huge again today! twice as big than yesterday. so before we paddled out, i told Ueno-san, &#8220;don&#8217;t worry, the waves are just like yesterday.&#8221; i said that so he wouldn&#8217;t be so nervous. but i&#8217;m sure he knew. haha. and after surfing big waves yesterday, today was easy. i was just [&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-68581","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\/68581","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=68581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}