{"id":71497,"date":"2016-09-19T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=71497"},"modified":"2016-09-19T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T06:24:08","slug":"gentlemen-its-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=71497","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen:  It&#039;s Never Too Late!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-8.48.07-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-19-at-8-48-07-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71498\" \/><br \/>\nhad an awesome time with these 2 cool Tokyo surfers this morning.  Kanazawa-san on the left, and Nakagami-san on the right.  from the start, all they wanted was to get better in surfing.  my answer was &#8220;ok, let&#8217;s do it!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-8.45.54-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-19-at-8-45-54-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71500\" \/><br \/>\nNakagami-san wanted to know how to do a proper bottom turn.  i showed him on the beach and once we got into the water, he did it so fast!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-8.43.53-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-19-at-8-43-53-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71499\" \/><br \/>\nand he kept on asking me &#8220;am i really bottom turning?&#8221;  i said &#8220;yes you are!  just don&#8217;t look down!!!&#8221;  after 18 waves ridden and 20 or so bottom turns, i&#8217;m sure Nakagami-san was pretty stoked!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-8.47.49-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-19-at-8-47-49-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71503\" \/><br \/>\nKanazawa-san already has the bottom turn wired.  he was ripping!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-8.47.18-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-19-at-8-47-18-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71502\" \/><br \/>\nsmooth and solid surfer.  this wednesday is going to be great because we&#8217;re going to take it to another level!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3956.jpg\" alt=\"img_3956\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-71501\" \/><br \/>\nthen we had a poke bowl and shave ice after.   had a great conversation.  both surfers started surfing in their 30&#8217;s.  both very successful in their own profession.  when Nakagami-san told me &#8220;gosh, i wish i started surfing earlier,&#8221;  i told him &#8220;no, i think you&#8217;re timing is perfect now.  if you started surfing at a young age, you probably won&#8217;t be as successful as you are now.  all you would be doing is surfing everyday.  haha.&#8221;   so many people tell me they started surfing too late.  my reply has always been the same. &#8220;it&#8217;s never too late!&#8221;  these guys met from surfing, they go on surf trips, and they have a great surfers bond.  if it wasn&#8217;t for surfing, today wouldn&#8217;t have happened.  so yes boys, keep on surfing and your lives will never be the same!  see you on wednesday morning for another day of boot camp!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>had an awesome time with these 2 cool Tokyo surfers this morning. Kanazawa-san on the left, and Nakagami-san on the right. from the start, all they wanted was to get better in surfing. my answer was &#8220;ok, let&#8217;s do it!&#8221; Nakagami-san wanted to know how to do a proper bottom turn. i showed him on [&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-71497","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\/71497","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=71497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}