{"id":73648,"date":"2016-11-27T05:32:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=73648"},"modified":"2016-11-27T05:32:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:32:56","slug":"frontsidebackside-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=73648","title":{"rendered":"Frontside\/Backside Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i was lucky to have the hawaii&#8217;s two best coaches when i was growing up.  Ben Aipa use to sit on the beach all day long dissecting my surfing.  my other coach Tony Moniz use to take me out in the ocean and teach me by example.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_6910-1.jpg\" alt=\"img_6910\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73665\" \/><br \/>\nso when i coach Aoi, i try to incorporate both techniques.  sometimes i&#8217;ll talk to him on the beach, but most of the times i&#8217;m in the water surfing with him.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1474.jpg\" alt=\"img_1474\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73660\" \/><br \/>\nbefore he paddled out, i told him &#8220;hey, this is the most watched surf point in the whole world.  everybody has their eyes on this spot all day long every day of the winter.  go out and surf hard, don&#8217;t fall, and enjoy it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1531.jpg\" alt=\"img_1531\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73663\" \/><br \/>\nAoi paddled straight out and caught a nice right.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1532.jpg\" alt=\"img_1532\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73651\" \/><br \/>\nwhen i seen him bottom turn, i was so stoked to see him put all his weight and power into this turn.  it was the first time i saw it!  if Aoi can do this on every bottom turn, his surfing will go up 10 levels.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1533.jpg\" alt=\"img_1533\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73656\" \/><br \/>\nand when you put power into your bottom turn, the rest is easy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1534.jpg\" alt=\"img_1534\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73649\" \/><br \/>\nbeautiful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1510.jpg\" alt=\"img_1510\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73653\" \/><br \/>\nJosh Moniz was out putting on a surf clinic.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1484.jpg\" alt=\"img_1484\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73659\" \/><br \/>\nseen Aoi paddle hard into another one.  this time, a left.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1489.jpg\" alt=\"img_1489\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-73655\" \/><br \/>\nanother nice power bottom turn.  look at his left hand in the water!  that&#8217;s how!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1490.jpg\" alt=\"img_1490\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-73652\" \/><br \/>\nthen coming off the bottom with speed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1492.jpg\" alt=\"img_1492\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73650\" \/><br \/>\nthen readjusting your weight and body for the off the lip.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1493.jpg\" alt=\"img_1493\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73658\" \/><br \/>\nthen bam!  the money shot!  absolutely perfect off the lip!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1496.jpg\" alt=\"img_1496\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-73661\" \/><br \/>\nthen the easy completion.  good job Aoi!  i&#8217;m super stoked to see you rising to the occasion!  your level and confidence went up big time!  let&#8217;s do it again!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_1481.jpg\" alt=\"img_1481\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-73657\" \/><br \/>\ni&#8217;m always trying to get a wave for myself too.  and when i do, it feels great!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was lucky to have the hawaii&#8217;s two best coaches when i was growing up. Ben Aipa use to sit on the beach all day long dissecting my surfing. my other coach Tony Moniz use to take me out in the ocean and teach me by example. so when i coach Aoi, i try to [&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-73648","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\/73648","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=73648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}