{"id":79815,"date":"2017-06-08T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=79815"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T06:54:30","slug":"surf-straight-or-surf-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=79815","title":{"rendered":"Surf Straight or Surf Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-12.57.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-79827\" \/><\/p>\n<p>coming from California, it must feel so good to surf without a wetsuit, surf in warm water, and ride the longest waves of your life.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.23.36-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79822\" \/><\/p>\n<p>had the most amazing morning with Father and Daughter.  15 year old Allison surfed a few times in California but it&#8217;s her first time surfing in Hawaii.  i was so happy to be the one to teach her today.  this was her very first Hawaiian wave!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.24.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79818\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and by the look of things, she seemed super happy!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.25.13-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79817\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it amazes me when i see the great Father and Daughter relationship.  now that they both shared this moment surfing in Hawaii, the bond will only grow.  it&#8217;s something surfing can do.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.22.18-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79823\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gregg emailed me the other day and said &#8220;the main focus will be for Allison so i&#8217;ll just ride a few on the side.&#8221;  Gregg ended up catching more waves and looked way happier.  haha.  i love it!  that&#8217;s pure stoke surfing can bring out!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.22.48-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79824\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is what you call &#8220;surfing in paradise!&#8221;  great job Allison!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.20.50-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79819\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i try my best to teach surfing on the beach.  and then i try my best to ride along the side coaching you the whole way.  if you listen, you will surf perfectly like this on every single wave.  if you don&#8217;t, you will surf like the guy in the back of Gregg.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.24.58-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79820\" \/><\/p>\n<p>first time for me taking a third and fourth generation Japanese\/American from California surfing!  we had an awesome time and an awesome talk.  thank you guys!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.25.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79821\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then ate the most biggest plate lunch in Hawaii.  if you weighted it, you will agree.  Gregg is a fireman in California so just by him helping others, i have the biggest respect for him.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-1.30.38-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-79816\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then picked up the 2 boys for an afternoon session.  Fujii-san and Maeda-san just flew in this morning from Japan and couldn&#8217;t wait to surf.  beautiful waves and beautiful rides.  <\/p>\n<p>now i hope to be surfing in my dreams&#8230;  good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>coming from California, it must feel so good to surf without a wetsuit, surf in warm water, and ride the longest waves of your life. had the most amazing morning with Father and Daughter. 15 year old Allison surfed a few times in California but it&#8217;s her first time surfing in Hawaii. i was so [&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-79815","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\/79815","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=79815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}