{"id":723,"date":"2008-08-11T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/08\/11\/results-from-the-oakley-grom-contest-in-chiba-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T22:22:22","slug":"results-from-the-oakley-grom-contest-in-chiba-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Results from the Oakley Grom Contest in Chiba, Japan&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  gosh, what a blast i had in chiba this past weekend.  it&#8217;s been a while since i went to a contest in japan and i was pretty amazed on high the level of surfing is these days.  gosh, the kids are ripping!!!  here are the finalists of the contest&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/P8090343.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P8090343.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nok, nao omura is the real deal.  i haven&#8217;t seen her surf since the last time she was staying with me in hawaii.  but i just seen her go from level 2 to 10.  yeah, i said 10.  and in her semifinal heat, her top two scores were both perfect 10&#8217;s.  yeah, kelly slater and bruce irons couldn&#8217;t even do that at uluwatu, but nao did it here in onshore waist high waves.  that&#8217;s pretty dam amazing and probably the first time it&#8217;s ever been done here in japan.  this is her right after the historic semifinal heat.  how happy can you be?  congratulations nao&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/P8090362.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P8090362.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nnow for the finalist.  yeah, that&#8217;s nao on the far left.  wonder what she got?  yeah, 1st place.  now she gets to be on tv here in japan&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/P8090365.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P8090365.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis is the under 12 division finalists.  the kid holding the board won it.  i don&#8217;t know his name but i&#8217;m sure i&#8217;ll hear more about him in the future.  all the kids were ripping in the final&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/P8090366.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P8090366.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthe under 16 division was pretty nuts but kashia from shikoku stood out from the rest and won it pretty easy.  he just had too much power compared to the rest of the boys&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/P8090370.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P8090370.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis was the 20 and under finalists.  wanted to congratulate each and every competitor who gave it their all this past weekend.  by watching all of them, i realized two things.  one, the level of surfing in japan is at an all time high.  and two, i&#8217;m getting old.. haha&#8230;.<br \/>\n**it was good to see old time friends and to make new friends.  wanted to thank everybody in chiba for being so kind.  hope to make it back there again soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. gosh, what a blast i had in chiba this past weekend. it&#8217;s been a while since i went to a contest in japan and i was pretty amazed on high the level of surfing is these days. gosh, the kids are ripping!!! here are the finalists of the contest&#8230;. ok, nao omura is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-go-naminori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}