{"id":88080,"date":"2018-02-23T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=88080"},"modified":"2018-02-23T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:22:45","slug":"56-waves-a-foil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=88080","title":{"rendered":"56 waves a foil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2476.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88090\" \/><\/p>\n<p>today was an amazing day.  the worst waves if you&#8217;re a shortboarder, but the best waves if you&#8217;re a foiler.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88089\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i pulled up to Diamond Head before 8am.  i thought i&#8217;d paddle out for a couple waves, but ended up surfing 3 hours and riding wave after wave after wave.  i couldn&#8217;t stop!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.45.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88083\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m practicing my round house cutbacks now.  going out, and doing the biggest cutback you can ever imagine.  something impossible by a shortboard.  twice the radius, and three times the speed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.45.02-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"761\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88085\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and when you fall, you fall hard.  see that razor blade foil coming back at you?  that&#8217;s what you have to be careful about.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.47.55-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"882\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88088\" \/><\/p>\n<p>seen my friend Danno out this morning.  he just started so i was giving him some pointers.  and being the great surfer he is, everything came naturally.<br \/>\nDanno is so hooked!  i know exactly how he feels and it&#8217;s pretty dam cool.  got a new foil buddy in the group.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.42.22-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88086\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then Hayato wanted to try so we went back in the afternoon.  i never want to see any of my friends getting hurt so i&#8217;m pretty cautious about this.  but i know Hayato can do it so he&#8217;s one of a very few i&#8217;d let borrow a board.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.43.01-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"729\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88081\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went to pick up Joshua and Seth&#8217;s board for Hayato to use so it&#8217;s been tested very well.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.46.37-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"828\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88084\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then Hayato got up pretty fast!  then he wanted to turn and try new things.  that&#8217;s when i said &#8220;hey buddy, slow down.  that&#8217;s how i got hurt.  one step at a time.&#8221;  haha.  Hayato must have caught over 30 waves.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-2.44.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88082\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the last time i seen Hayato this happy after a wave was 10 years ago in the Mentawai&#8217;s.  we were surfing perfect 8&#8242; big barreling HT&#8217;s taking turns getting the barrels of our lives.  then today was waist high and onshore and we were feeling the same kind of excitement.  Hayato told me &#8220;now i know why you can surf these kind of waves for 3 hours.&#8221;  haha.  welcome to the foiling group dude!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88091\" \/><\/p>\n<p>my afternoon session was 2 hours and 17 minutes according to my Apple Watch.  i caught 22 waves, rode them for 1.6KM, and was riding for almost 6 minutes.  add that to my 34 waves this morning and my total is 56 waves ridden in 5 hours.  this is absolutely the best exercise i&#8217;ve ever done in my life.  exercise and have fun at the same time?  that&#8217;s a dream guys!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today was an amazing day. the worst waves if you&#8217;re a shortboarder, but the best waves if you&#8217;re a foiler. i pulled up to Diamond Head before 8am. i thought i&#8217;d paddle out for a couple waves, but ended up surfing 3 hours and riding wave after wave after wave. i couldn&#8217;t stop! i&#8217;m practicing [&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-88080","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\/88080","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=88080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}