{"id":94507,"date":"2018-09-19T05:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=94507"},"modified":"2018-09-19T05:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:25:57","slug":"hydrofoil-test-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=94507","title":{"rendered":"Hydrofoil Test Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve ridden over a thousand surfboards in my life.  nothing scary about testing any of them out.  on the other hand, i&#8217;ve ridden only 10 foil boards in my life.  and each time i try a new one, it&#8217;s freaking so scary!  so scary because one mistake can send me to the hospital.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-18-at-2.41.06-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"714\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94514\" \/><br \/>\nso when i jumped on my first wave with the brand new Schaper, i was nervous for the first second, then it instantly felt like a perfect fit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-18-at-2.41.25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94515\" \/><br \/>\nthen after i did my first cutback, everything came into place.  i really felt like i could do anything!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-18-at-2.44.25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94510\" \/><br \/>\ni let my friend Carter try it too and same thing.  first wave so smooth and perfect.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-18-at-2.45.52-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94511\" \/><br \/>\nwe had such a good time experimenting with new equipment.  it felt like the days we were 12 years old surfing out at Portlock together till sunset.  it&#8217;s crazy how something never change&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-18-at-2.40.10-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94512\" \/><br \/>\nfeeling like 2 birds flying over the ocean with so much freedom!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-18-at-2.47.32-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94516\" \/><br \/>\nthank you again Carl Schaper for making foiling not so scary, and so much more exciting!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8313.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94508\" \/><br \/>\nalso want to thank Ishikawa-san for the cool Japanese face masks!  i need it so much after my 10 hour surf days!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94509\" \/><br \/>\nand thank you Michi-san for the snack!  i need it so much for a snack between surfs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94513\" \/><br \/>\nand thank you Michi-san&#8217;s Mother for the somen.  i need it so much because i love somen so much!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve ridden over a thousand surfboards in my life. nothing scary about testing any of them out. on the other hand, i&#8217;ve ridden only 10 foil boards in my life. and each time i try a new one, it&#8217;s freaking so scary! so scary because one mistake can send me to the hospital. so when [&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-94507","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\/94507","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=94507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}