{"id":88978,"date":"2018-03-24T05:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=88978"},"modified":"2018-03-24T05:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:03:25","slug":"boys-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=88978","title":{"rendered":"Boys Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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last year Shui-kun was only 10 years old. i took him surfing with his Mom. this year, we went just the 2 of us. so instead of him looking at Mom every time i asked him a question in English, he looked at me and answered back in English. it was awesome to have a nice man to man chat with this cool surfer kid.
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the waves were overhead for him but he was charging big! check out his surfing style! so perfect!
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sharing precious time with kids in the ocean like this makes me so happy. i reminds me of all the precious moments i had when i was a kid too. moments that i will never forget for the rest of my life.
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Shui-kun asked me to teach him how to do an off the lip. i showed him on the beach as he watched carefully. then when he took off on this perfect wave, i seen him flying down the line.
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then he went up and did an off the lip! and freaking made it!!! i was so stoked!!!
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great job Shui-kun! you’re the coolest 11 year old surfer kid. so brave and so smart!
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i thought the boys went to the East side yesterday so i was planning to foil Bowls by myself in the rainy afternoon. then when i pulled up to the parking lot, i seen Micah’s car. then right when i parked, Tony pulled in right next to me. i was so happy to see my foil buddies! we all paddled out and caught every single wave that came in. not a single wave passed the 4 of us by. here is Micah riding high on one of many.
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then the 4 of us took off on a set and rode it together. i’m glad nobody was inside of us trying to paddle back out. that wouldn’t be a good place to be.
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Micah grabbed my gopro and took some photos. he’s the best right now and all the rest of us are just trying to catch up to him.
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first time i seen myself staring down a chest high wave like it’s 20′ or something. haha.
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i tried Micah’s new board. it’s only a 5’2 and felt super good. got on the phone after i came in and ordered my own.
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i can actually take off on a wave, ride it all the way to the end, then pump back out to the same exact spot i took off. that was my goal last week, this week, my goal is to take off once and ride 3 consecutive waves. hopefully today! see ya! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

last year Shui-kun was only 10 years old. i took him surfing with his Mom. this year, we went just the 2 of us. so instead of him looking at Mom every time i asked him a question in English, he looked at me and answered back in English. it was awesome to have a […]<\/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-88978","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\/88978","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=88978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}