{"id":76431,"date":"2017-02-22T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=76431"},"modified":"2017-02-22T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:03:15","slug":"hawaii-surfing-all-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=76431","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii:  Surfing All Alone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.23.21-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.23.21 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>happy surf morning with Takagaki-san and Kiyomi-san!  the waves were small and the weather was bad.  but guess what?  that was a good thing because nobody was out!  if there were big waves and good weather, there would have been 40 guys out.  so Kiyomi-san kept enjoying each ride at a time.  nobody around to be nervous about.  it was woman and nature.  good riding Kiyomi-san!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.20.23-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.20.23 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76436\" \/><\/p>\n<p>look how beautiful this wave is!!  the conditions were absolutely perfect!  Takagaki-san riding the smooth faces of mother nature.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.22.50-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.22.50 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i still couldn&#8217;t believe we had the entire ocean to ourselves at one time.  it&#8217;s pretty unbelievable if you&#8217;re from japan because a day like this in shonan will have hundreds of surfers.  but not today in hawaii.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.24.08-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.24.08 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kiyomi-san surfing better and better on each wave.  super amazing progress!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.20.43-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.20.43 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Takagaki-san was surfing good as usual.  just smiling and enjoying the ride.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.25.28-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.25.28 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76441\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then 5 surfers paddled out and we paddled in.  it was indeed a dream session for us!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.26.03-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.26.03 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then went to east some oxtail soup and curry.  thank you Takagaki-san and Kiyomi-san for the awesome empty morning!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-1.39.04-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 1.39.04 PM\" width=\"599\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i was watching Seth&#8217;s heat last night online.  and when he beat another Pipeline Master Julian Wilson, i couldn&#8217;t wipe that smile off my face.  i am so proud of Josh and Seth representing hawaii down there in australia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0146.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0146\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julian Wilson is one of the most rich and famous surfers in the world.  he&#8217;s won WCT contests around the world.  a normal kid would be so freaking nervous but not Seth.  after all those years of watching his older brothers and sister picking on him, i knew he would turn out to be the most fearless.  look at Seth&#8217;s expression, i bet he&#8217;s thinking &#8220;holy crap!  i just beat another one of my hero&#8217;s!  now who&#8217;s next?&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-22-at-2.31.22-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 2.31.22 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-76442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went to pick up Tatsuya-san and Kazumi-san for an afternoon session.   and guess what?  we had the whole spot to ourselves for a while!  what an incredible day of surfing all alone!  it feels like a freaking dream!   more photos coming tomorrow!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>happy surf morning with Takagaki-san and Kiyomi-san! the waves were small and the weather was bad. but guess what? that was a good thing because nobody was out! if there were big waves and good weather, there would have been 40 guys out. so Kiyomi-san kept enjoying each ride at a time. nobody around 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-76431","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\/76431","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=76431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}