{"id":69174,"date":"2016-07-12T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T06:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=69174"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T06:38:44","slug":"longer-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=69174","title":{"rendered":"Longer is Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-8.17.58-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 8.17.58 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69178\" \/><br \/>\ntoday was a kind of nervous day for me.  when ever somebody can&#8217;t swim, i am more nervous than them.  the reason is, it&#8217;s pretty much in my hands for the outcome.  it&#8217;s either good, bad, or ugly.  so this morning, i was extra careful when teaching Sakai-san how to surf.  i made sure everything was safe and nothing could possible go wrong.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-8.18.17-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 8.18.17 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69175\" \/><br \/>\nand once she got up on her first wave, the nerves were all gone.  everything went perfectly!  i&#8217;m sure you will see Sakai-san surfing again!  so happy!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-8.20.17-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 8.20.17 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69181\" \/><br \/>\nKawamura-san was riding the short board in the beginning.  he was having fun!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-8.20.39-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 8.20.39 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69179\" \/><br \/>\nperfect smile after a perfect wave!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-8.21.17-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 8.21.17 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69176\" \/><br \/>\nthen i put Kawamura-san on a longboard.  i told him, &#8220;you&#8217;re going to catch twice the amount of waves, and you are going to ride it 3x longer.&#8221;  he ended up catching 4x the amount of waves, and 6x longer.  super good surfer and super cool guy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-8.19.09-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-12 at 8.19.09 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69177\" \/><br \/>\nthank you Kawamura-san and Sakai-san for the wonderful morning.  i&#8217;m so happy to see your beautiful smiles in this beautiful paradise.  keep on surfing!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1633.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1633\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69187\" \/><br \/>\nthen went for the famous poke bowl!  omg, i love it here!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1632.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1632\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-69189\" \/><br \/>\nin fact, everybody loves it here.  then after went to waiola shave ice to end the perfect morning.  yes, another amazing day in paradise.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today was a kind of nervous day for me. when ever somebody can&#8217;t swim, i am more nervous than them. the reason is, it&#8217;s pretty much in my hands for the outcome. it&#8217;s either good, bad, or ugly. so this morning, i was extra careful when teaching Sakai-san how to surf. i made sure everything [&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-69174","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\/69174","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=69174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}