{"id":69608,"date":"2016-07-26T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=69608"},"modified":"2016-07-26T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:50:24","slug":"k-land-a-happy-day-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=69608","title":{"rendered":"K-Land:  A Happy Day After!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the government said &#8220;stay out of the ocean today because of dirty water!&#8221;  the whole island of surfers listened except the 5 of us.   if you know the ocean currents, winds, and tides, you can find clean water somewhere.  pulled up to bowls this morning and no way!  so drove around the corner in search of good waves and clean water.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.18.13-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.18.13 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69616\" \/><br \/>\nkewalo&#8217;s was the spot!  the water was clean and the waves were good!  showed Oshima-san and Kawato-san the local way of surfing the most localize spot on the south shore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.18.00-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.18.00 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69617\" \/><br \/>\nnew spot, new nerves.  haha.  i could tell they were nervous because it was something totally different.  kind of wild if you think about it.  i forgot to tell them about the big tiger sharks that patrol out there.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.18.55-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.18.55 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69611\" \/><br \/>\ndifferent spot, different lineup, different current, and different everything.  luckily i surfed here since i was 13 years old.  teaching the tricks to kewalos and telling the boys how lucky they are to surf this spot all to ourselves.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.20.54-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.20.54 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69609\" \/><br \/>\nOshima-san likes any challenge.  all he wanted was bigger and bigger waves.  so stoked to see him charging super hard!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.20.21-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.20.21 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69618\" \/><br \/>\ngood ride, good smile.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.21.23-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.21.23 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69610\" \/><br \/>\nhad to dodge some wood and debris, but overall, the water was clean.  i still can&#8217;t believe nobody was out.  it&#8217;s the first time in my life i surfed all morning at kewalos with no locals out.  score.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.21.48-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.21.48 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69615\" \/><br \/>\nKawato-san figuring out the lineup.  one of the hardest lineups to figure out.  i&#8217;ve seen guys paddle out there for the first time and look lost at sea.  if you surfed there before, you know what i&#8217;m talking about.  just to catch a wave is a huge accomplishment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.31.45-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.31.45 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69613\" \/><br \/>\nthen took the kids surfing in the afternoon when the water cleaned up at rock piles.  again, nobody out.  omg, we had a blast!  i was so happy to come home and look at all the beautiful smiles in the photos.  this is a dream for me to see kids this happy from surfing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.32.37-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.32.37 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69614\" \/><br \/>\ndriving home into the blue sky.  needed to wash the truck, and thank goodness that everybody was safe with this recent typhoon.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-26-at-9.32.15-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 9.32.15 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-69612\" \/><br \/>\ni surfed 2 rounds every single day for the past 39 days straight!   omg, that&#8217;s a world record for me!  no wonder i&#8217;m so black!   thank goodness my teeth is white or you won&#8217;t be able to see me.  haha.  10 more days of 2 rounds so 49 days will be my all time record.  then i&#8217;m planning to take a couple days of vacation out of the sun.  yeah!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the government said &#8220;stay out of the ocean today because of dirty water!&#8221; the whole island of surfers listened except the 5 of us. if you know the ocean currents, winds, and tides, you can find clean water somewhere. pulled up to bowls this morning and no way! so drove around the corner in search [&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-69608","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\/69608","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=69608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}