{"id":86301,"date":"2017-12-29T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=86301"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T07:57:18","slug":"japanese-surf-culture-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=86301","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Surf Culture Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.27.39-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"715\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>back to the beautiful days here in Hawaii.  spent the day with a wonderful family that&#8217;s spending their new years right here in paradise!  welcome the Shirato-san family!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.29.50-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>at just 17 years old, Natsuki-chan knows how to have fun!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.30.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this was her first wave and she surfed it perfectly.  and very happily.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.31.01-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then Maho-chan&#8217;s turn and it was perfect too!  and very happy too!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.27.56-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"714\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>such cool sisters and such a cool family.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.31.32-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maho-chan kept on riding some really long ones.  perfect Diamond Head back shot.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.32.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"715\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and Natsuki-chan on her last wave of the day.  almost rode this one to the beach but got stopped by the Hawaiian Monk Seal.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.33.20-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the seal was just hanging out right in the shallow water.  the cutest thing ever!  very lucky for the girls to experience this very rare occurrence.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.36.06-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then went to the outside to surf with Papa Kenya-san.  super cool surfer that&#8217;s been surfing since the 70&#8217;s.  he knows all the legend surfers and is also a legend to me.  amazing stories and such a super local style Japanese surfer.  cool!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.36.29-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>thank you for all the amazing stories from all the years of your surfing life.  i&#8217;m so stoked we have so many mutual friends.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86291\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then went to China Town and ate an amazing lunch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>omg, these sesame balls are my favorite!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.36.43-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>thank you Papa Kenya-san, Mama Rumi-san, Maho-chan, and Natsuki-chan for the wonderful full day of fun!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-29-at-12.37.47-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we went out to the deep blue.  i just love this place!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>back to the beautiful days here in Hawaii. spent the day with a wonderful family that&#8217;s spending their new years right here in paradise! welcome the Shirato-san family! at just 17 years old, Natsuki-chan knows how to have fun! this was her first wave and she surfed it perfectly. and very happily. then Maho-chan&#8217;s turn [&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-86301","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\/86301","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=86301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}