{"id":91830,"date":"2018-06-28T05:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=91830"},"modified":"2018-06-28T05:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:09:17","slug":"higher-up-is-higher-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=91830","title":{"rendered":"Higher Up is Higher Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-27-at-1.21.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"756\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91831\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the higher up you get out of the water, the higher experiences you will have.  the view is much better and you can see so many things you won&#8217;t see on a regular surfboard.  someday i hope to foil with dolphins in the deep blue sea.  that would be awesome.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-27-at-1.21.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91832\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i catch a right at Bowls yesterday afternoon.  i start foiling and see something swimming along with me.  so i speed up and do a turn.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-27-at-1.22.15-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"728\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91833\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then the shadow turns right along the side with me.  i know it can&#8217;t be a shark because sharks can&#8217;t turn like that.  it can&#8217;t be a dolphin because it is too shallow.  it can&#8217;t be a turtle because of the shape.  what was it???<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-27-at-1.23.06-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91834\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i pull out, it swims up to me, and it was a baby Hawaiian Monk Seal!!!  OMG, he was just playing around with me.  what an incredible experience!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-27-at-1.25.40-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"802\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91836\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m so happy to share foiling experiences with my friends.  i get to see pretty much their lowest point in life when they get frustrated.  and i get to see pretty much their highest point in life when they get airborne.  this is what friendship is all about.  it&#8217;s about being there for the good, the bad, and the ugly.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-25-at-4.40.02-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"793\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91838\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Toda-san took some amazing drone footage of me the other day.  the water was so clear that it looked like i was skimming the reef.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-25-at-4.38.57-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"732\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91837\" \/><\/p>\n<p>video coming soon on Go-Naminori.  thank you Toda-san for the amazing drone work!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the higher up you get out of the water, the higher experiences you will have. the view is much better and you can see so many things you won&#8217;t see on a regular surfboard. someday i hope to foil with dolphins in the deep blue sea. that would be awesome. i catch a right at [&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-91830","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\/91830","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=91830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}