{"id":69571,"date":"2016-07-25T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=69571"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:29:31","slug":"hard-core-japanese-typhoon-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=69571","title":{"rendered":"HARD CORE JAPANESE TYPHOON SURFERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last night, the mayor went on the news telling everybody to &#8220;stay indoors today.  read a book or watch a movie.  just don&#8217;t go out.&#8221;  those words don&#8217;t really sink in for a 20 years plus typhoon chaser.  i knew there would be a window of opportunity and when it&#8217;s there, i&#8217;m taking it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-9.56.36-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 9.56.36 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69577\" \/><br \/>\nso i pick up Kawato-san this morning.  we paddle out and it was glassy again!  sun came out for a while and it was paradise.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-9.57.02-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 9.57.02 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69574\" \/><br \/>\nKawato-san has only been surfing for 1.5 years too.  incredible how good he got in such a short time.  love to watch his progression day by day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-9.57.33-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 9.57.33 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69576\" \/><br \/>\nsuper cool surfer!  so stoked Kawato-san likes hawaii and is hooked on surfing.  i&#8217;d say in another 1.5 years, he would be getting barreled!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-9.58.28-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 9.58.28 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69575\" \/><br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve been practicing surfing the lefts.  why not when you&#8217;re surfing the best lefts on the island with nobody out right?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-9.59.13-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 9.59.13 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69573\" \/><br \/>\nOshima-san paddled out in the afternoon right when the storm came.  it was super challenging but it&#8217;s days like this that separate the men from the boys.  if you can surf the waves this afternoon, you can surf anything.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-10.01.35-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 10.01.35 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69572\" \/><br \/>\nit&#8217;s my goal to get Oshima-san in a barrels really soon.  and when that happens, he will quit golfing for sure.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-10.00.33-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 10.00.33 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69579\" \/><br \/>\nthis is pure determination, and pure stoke!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-10.01.53-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 10.01.53 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69580\" \/><br \/>\nonly the hardcore would even think about paddling out today.   you have to love surfing a lot to be this crazy to paddle out into the wild ocean.  i&#8217;ve been doing this for 25 years and it never gets boring.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-25-at-9.58.47-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-25 at 9.58.47 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-69578\" \/><br \/>\nearly this morning, there were two more hard core surfers in the water.  Chifumi-san and Reina-san is as hard core as they come.  nothing will stop these ladies from surfing.  nothing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night, the mayor went on the news telling everybody to &#8220;stay indoors today. read a book or watch a movie. just don&#8217;t go out.&#8221; those words don&#8217;t really sink in for a 20 years plus typhoon chaser. i knew there would be a window of opportunity and when it&#8217;s there, i&#8217;m taking it. so [&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-69571","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\/69571","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=69571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}