{"id":76606,"date":"2017-02-28T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=76606"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T04:44:44","slug":"another-japanese-pipeline-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=76606","title":{"rendered":"Another Japanese Pipeline Master!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-28-at-12.33.06-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-28 at 12.33.06 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76611\" \/><\/p>\n<p>another perfect morning surf with Rikita-san.  today he wanted to short board so we short boarding.  the waves were so beautiful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-28-at-12.31.34-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-28 at 12.31.34 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76612\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s unbelievable how good Rikita-san is getting.  after all my yelling from the side of the wave, i think he&#8217;s getting good because he doesn&#8217;t want to be yelled at anymore.  haha.   i hope he looks at this photo good because if he turned a little earlier, he could have been in that barrel.  maybe next time?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-28-at-12.30.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-28 at 12.30.26 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>we had a long day so this was one of our last waves.  went in, jumped in the truck, and headed north.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0290.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0290\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76616\" \/><\/p>\n<p>stopped by my friends glassing factory to see how it&#8217;s done here in hawaii.  done pretty well.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0298.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0298\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76609\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then pulled up to rocky point and i couldn&#8217;t believe how good it was!!!  it was perfect!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0307.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0307\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76613\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then went to the billabong house and watched pipe\/backdoor\/off the wall.  Rikita-san didn&#8217;t know it, but Taj Burrow was sitting behind him on the porch watching the waves.  can you see him?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0321.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0321\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>omg, the waves were so good!!!  look at Rikita-san standing front row on the beach probably tripping out!  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0282.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0282\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i wear caps because it protects my face from turning red from the hot sun.  and it also protects my eyes from getting sunburnt.  without it, i wouldn&#8217;t be able to spend 6-8 hours\/day in the ocean.  so want to thank Rikita-san for the cool caps to add to my collection!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0281.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0281\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-76607\" \/><\/p>\n<p>omg, these are limited editions Mt. Fuji designs!  i&#8217;m so stoked!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0291.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0291\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76614\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went to meet Ayaka-chan.  and before i say anything else, i don&#8217;t do social media so i don&#8217;t know what the heck is going on in this world.  one of the reasons is because i like the old style of finding news right from that persons mouth.  in this case, i asked Ayaka-chan how she did in the bodyboard contest at pipeline yesterday.  she told me &#8220;I WON!!!&#8221;  omg!!!!  she won the world bodyboard contest at pipeline!!!!  i freaked out!  i gave her a big hug, then gave her a high five, and gave her a gun again!  i was totally surprised and totally stoked for her!  that&#8217;s such a huge accomplishment for her bodyboarding career!  congratulations Ayaka-chan in your big win!  and thank you very much for bringing my Dove wetsuits to hawaii for me.  i really appreciate it.  keep on surfing your dream!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>another perfect morning surf with Rikita-san. today he wanted to short board so we short boarding. the waves were so beautiful! it&#8217;s unbelievable how good Rikita-san is getting. after all my yelling from the side of the wave, i think he&#8217;s getting good because he doesn&#8217;t want to be yelled at anymore. haha. i hope [&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-76606","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\/76606","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=76606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}