{"id":75655,"date":"2017-01-27T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75655"},"modified":"2017-01-27T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:20:08","slug":"grandpas-first-snowboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75655","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa&#8217;s First Snowboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9157.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9157\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75656\" \/><\/p>\n<p>felt pretty good waking up in the city and looking out the hotel window.  it was so beautiful!  it actually felt like christmas!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9163.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9163\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75657\" \/><\/p>\n<p>jumped on the 3 hour bus ride from saporro to niseko.  beautiful scenery all the way.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9165.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9165\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75658\" \/><\/p>\n<p>one guy surfing the knee high waves in the snow!  that&#8217;s hardcore!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9185.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9185\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75659\" \/><\/p>\n<p>pulled up to Annupuri and headed to The Powder Company to gear up.  Kimura-san and Takahashi-San ready to hit the mountain.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9188.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9188\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but first, Kimura-san needed a lesson.  thank goodness Tomoki-san is a very patient teacher.  and thank goodness Kimura-san was a great student.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9197.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9197\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75661\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i took video of Kimura-san&#8217;s first experience.  i was laughing so much that i fell down in the snow laughing so hard.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9221.png\" alt=\"IMG_9221\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so stoked to see Kimura-san up on his own!  pretty dam good for a grandpa.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9210-e1485437022534.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9210\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75663\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then Takahashi-san and i took the lift up to the top of the mountain.  we snowboarded through some trees and luckily i didn&#8217;t hit any of them.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9227.png\" alt=\"IMG_9227\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75668\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i was a little rusty on my first run.  but after this, i started to get the feel again and started to be a little reckless as usual.  everybody told me to slow down, but that&#8217;s something i can&#8217;t do.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9218-e1485437005898.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9218\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75666\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we went up for the night session.  omg, it was so beautiful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9219.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9219\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>taking the lift up the huge mountain was so beautiful.  on my first run, i did a big carve on the mountain full speed and fell coming down right on my shoulder.  i heard bones cracking from my neck to my ass.  got back up, did the same thing, and fell again and bones cracking everywhere.  better really slow down.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9226.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9226\" width=\"1478\" height=\"1108\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we had a beautiful dinner in an amazing restaurant.  thank you Kimura-san, Takahashi-san, Tokura-san, and Tomoki-san for the wonderful time today!  and also thanks to all my friends i met up in the mountain.  such a small world!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9223.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9223\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75664\" \/><\/p>\n<p>duck for dinner.  ii kamo!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>felt pretty good waking up in the city and looking out the hotel window. it was so beautiful! it actually felt like christmas! jumped on the 3 hour bus ride from saporro to niseko. beautiful scenery all the way. one guy surfing the knee high waves in the snow! that&#8217;s hardcore! pulled up to Annupuri [&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-75655","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\/75655","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=75655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}