{"id":79686,"date":"2017-06-04T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T06:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=79686"},"modified":"2017-06-04T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T06:18:34","slug":"leash-cord-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=79686","title":{"rendered":"Leash Cord Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.11.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79694\" \/><\/p>\n<p>today was the last day of training so i wanted to make sure everything was perfect before these 2 wonderful surfers go back to Japan.  wanted to make sure Toshimi-san was confident enough to paddle into big waves on her own.  that was accomplished!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.11.01-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>wanted to make sure Rikita-san had his arms in the perfect stylish position.   that was accomplished!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.06.30-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79690\" \/><\/p>\n<p>during our session, Rikita-san wasn&#8217;t moving for a long time.  i was wondering what he was doing????  come to find out, his leash was stuck on the reef.  that&#8217;s kind of freaky so i was happy that Rikita-san stayed very calm.  if this ever happens to you, please stay calm.  then simply take the leash off your ankle and swim away from your board.  when all the waves and surge pass, then you can untangle the leash off the reef.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.06.50-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79687\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i swam down to take a look and the leash was wrapped around this coral.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.07.23-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79691\" \/><\/p>\n<p>some people don&#8217;t open their eyes and do it by feel but i recommend you opening your eyes.  see that sea urchin?  yeah, ouch!  i got it untied and we went back to surfing.  very simple.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.05.47-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79692\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then Rikita-san was back in action!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.11.35-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79693\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and Toshimi-san too!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.14.23-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79695\" \/><\/p>\n<p>luckily i got this underwater shot of the duck dive.  so beautiful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.13.57-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79696\" \/><\/p>\n<p>super stoked to see my friend Carter out there ripping it on his brand new board.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-7.17.42-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-79689\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ate lunch and dropped off Rikita-san and Toshimi-san off in the mountains.  from surfing in the beautiful ocean to hiking in the refreshing mountain.  can&#8217;t beat a perfect day like that.  thank you both for the wonderful time in Hawaii!  keep on practicing and see you guys again soon!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today was the last day of training so i wanted to make sure everything was perfect before these 2 wonderful surfers go back to Japan. wanted to make sure Toshimi-san was confident enough to paddle into big waves on her own. that was accomplished! wanted to make sure Rikita-san had his arms in the perfect [&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-79686","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\/79686","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=79686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}