{"id":75695,"date":"2017-01-29T03:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75695"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T18:34:39","slug":"snow-surfers-boys-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75695","title":{"rendered":"Snow Surfers Boys Night OUT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve never pushed my limits mentally and physically as much as i did on this trip.  at times, i felt like quitting, i felt frustrated, i felt overwhelmed, i felt weak, i felt hopeless, and i felt like giving up.  i even felt like i was going to die.  but now that it&#8217;s all over, i&#8217;m glad i had this experience for my body, mind, and soul.  it will definitely make me a stronger person, a harder worker, and a happier man.  thank goodness!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FullSizeRender-4.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"750\" height=\"969\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75696\" \/><\/p>\n<p>on this day, i was a wreck.  everything you could possible think of went wrong.  i was like a beginner surfer trying to surf pipeline for the first time.  and yes, i lost.  it was so foggy, snowing, raining, and the worst possible conditions to be in the mountain.  on this particular drop, i fell a little earlier and my goggles landed under the snow.  it was full of snow and i couldn&#8217;t get it out because it turned to ice.  so i put it back on and kept going.  i was pretty much blind.  then i took it off and the snow\/rain\/frost made my vision even worst.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9293.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9293\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75705\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this was my view.  imagine flying down a mountain like this?  it was one of the scariest moments of my life to be honest.  but once you&#8217;re up in the mountain, there&#8217;s only one way down.  i went down by feel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9276.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9276\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>that night, we had the boys night out.  just us guys laughing at all the stories from the day.  and guess what?  i was the laugh of the night.  haha.  thank you Osamu-san, Hayato, Takahashi-san, Taniya-san, Tokura-san, Kimura-san, and Jacksan for the crazy laughs!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9270-e1485603082373.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9270\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>laughing and eating amazing food.  here is fish fresh from the ocean of hokkaido.  it was so good!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9272.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9272\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75699\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and shirako is my favorite food!  this and a cold beer will make a tired man happy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9271-e1485603102587.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9271\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75703\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this fish only lives in hokkaido.  very interesting.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9287.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9287\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75702\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the drive home in the most dangerous weather.  stormy and little visibility.  i was sitting in the back seat pretty nervous.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_9296.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9296\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75704\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then woke up to a brand new day.  a brighter and better day!  more classic stories to come.  thank goodness i&#8217;m still alive to tell you the story of a stupid foreigner going up into the minus 10 degree mountain with such little clothes.  yes, that was me.  <\/p>\n<p>for now, getting on 2 flights to get back to hawaii.  one to fukuoka, and one to honolulu.  can&#8217;t wait to get back to tshirt, shorts, slippers, and mr. sun!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve never pushed my limits mentally and physically as much as i did on this trip. at times, i felt like quitting, i felt frustrated, i felt overwhelmed, i felt weak, i felt hopeless, and i felt like giving up. i even felt like i was going to die. but now that it&#8217;s all over, [&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-75695","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\/75695","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=75695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}