{"id":81501,"date":"2017-07-27T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=81501"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:21:39","slug":"old-typhoon-chaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=81501","title":{"rendered":"Old Typhoon Chaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-2.01.03-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went surfing this afternoon with Koike-san and we had the whole lineup to ourselves!  perfect fun waves and nobody around is like a dream session.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-1.58.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81506\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i was so happy to see Koike-san put the board on the rail like this.  this is real surfing!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-1.59.45-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i just love these kind of photos.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-2.00.22-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and i just love looking for the barrel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-2.01.37-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81508\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Koike-san caught some really good ones today.  surfing level on the rise.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-2.02.23-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81503\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then it got super crowded and aggressive.  but we had our little private session so it was ok.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-2.03.01-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"730\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>thank you Koike-san for the wonderful afternoon!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>my friend Carter sent me this photo of us back in 1987?  gosh, we were so young as we waited for our heats in the NSSA Nationals at Huntington Beach, California!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/typhoon-i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve been tracking typhoons like this for 25 years and it&#8217;s very rare to have one turning down like this.  it will eventually turn back up and when it does, expect huge surf in Japan.  and epic too! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went surfing this afternoon with Koike-san and we had the whole lineup to ourselves! perfect fun waves and nobody around is like a dream session. i was so happy to see Koike-san put the board on the rail like this. this is real surfing! i just love these kind of photos. and i just love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81501","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\/81501","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=81501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}