{"id":92508,"date":"2018-07-18T05:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=92508"},"modified":"2018-07-18T05:32:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:32:05","slug":"reach-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=92508","title":{"rendered":"Reach the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.04.42-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>when people ask me what age can they surf until, i use to say &#8220;um.. maybe 70 years old?&#8221;  but after meeting Fujii-san, that has all changed.  at 77 years old, this amazing surfer is good!  he just moved the scale way up!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.05.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fujii-san was loving the laugh after each long ride.  super good improvements in the past 3 days of Boot Camp.  this man has given me so much power to surf forever!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.05.18-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92515\" \/><\/p>\n<p>nice long last ride with Diamond Head in the back.  it was so beautiful to watch this precious moment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.07.12-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92516\" \/><\/p>\n<p>thank you Fujii-san!  please tell everybody at Sakura Surf School in Higashihama that i said hello!  you guys have a great surf club with some cool surfers.  it&#8217;s a pleasure to meeting you and can&#8217;t wait to surf with you again&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.07.36-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92517\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it seems like months that i haven&#8217;t foiled because i&#8217;ve been so busy.  i missed it so much that i couldn&#8217;t turn down an invitation from Micah even though i was so tired.  we paddled out to Diamond Head in the evening and had the time of our lives&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.09.42-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"807\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Micah is foiling so good!  i love to watch him ride wave into wave into wave.  it&#8217;s crazy how a big guy like him can glide so gracefully over the ocean.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.12.12-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i had the best waves of my life, and i had the craziest wipeouts of my life.  my last wave took me to the sandy beach so i was done&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.12.57-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"765\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92519\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tony Moniz on one to the beach too.  i&#8217;d say he rode this one for almost 2 minutes.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-17-at-3.13.23-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>we were laughing and having so much fun.  the 4 of us were like little kids that just started surfing again.  it was amazing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_6722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then went back up and talked more.  i&#8217;d have to say that our lives are pretty dam good now.  just to spend time with family and friends in the ocean has always been a dream for me.  can&#8217;t wait till this evening so we can do it all over again.  see you boys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when people ask me what age can they surf until, i use to say &#8220;um.. maybe 70 years old?&#8221; but after meeting Fujii-san, that has all changed. at 77 years old, this amazing surfer is good! he just moved the scale way up! Fujii-san was loving the laugh after each long ride. super good improvements [&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-92508","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\/92508","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=92508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}