{"id":99317,"date":"2019-02-27T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=99317"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:03:43","slug":"batteries-recharged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=99317","title":{"rendered":"Batteries Recharged!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99321\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>each day, i give Rikita-san options. \u00a0most of the time he says &#8220;up to you.&#8221; \u00a0but today, he didn&#8217;t want to say that after what happened yesterday on Molokai. \u00a0he knows i was leaning towards another day of high risk adventure. \u00a0 so to be safe, he chose Diamond Head. \u00a0haha.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99325\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-27-at-3.13.36-PM-663x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/>and the waves were super fun! \u00a0so easy, so comfortable, so confident, and so happy. \u00a0this is what surfing is all about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99327\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-27-at-3.17.04-PM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>Rikita-san is getting better surfing, and i&#8217;m getting better taking photos. \u00a0so stoked for both of us!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99326\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-27-at-3.14.43-PM-663x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/>one year ago, we&#8217;d be colliding. \u00a0but now, we surf in harmony&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99322\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>straight to Rikita-san&#8217;s favorite lunch after a wonderful surf session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99319\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>we had the full day so we did what surfers do, which was to go checking out friends in the surf industry. \u00a0this is David from Surfco. \u00a0a very smart man that has invented amazing products such as the Nose Guard. \u00a0he was showing us some of his new inventions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99323\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2483-e1551249704452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>Rikita-san wanted to go check out factories so we first stopped by to see Glenn Pang. \u00a0super famous shaper that&#8217;s been making thousands of surfboards for pro surfers for many years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99324\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>Glenn started shaping foil boards so we were looking at some of his new innovations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99318\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>then stopped by to check out Carl Scharper at his factory on the North Shore. \u00a0another amazing shaper that&#8217;s been building boards for decades&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99320\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2482-e1551249696224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>and along the way, just playing around like little boys do. \u00a0connecting to the tree in this case. \u00a0haha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99328\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-27-at-3.20.02-PM-663x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"371\" \/>then went for a super late evening session with Seira-chan. \u00a0surfed till pitch dark.<\/p>\n<p>yesterday i left my house at 5am and got home at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>today i left my house at 7am and got home at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s been like this and will be like this for a while. \u00a0so long i keep my batteries recharged, i&#8217;m good to go! \u00a0goodnight and see you tomorrow morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>each day, i give Rikita-san options. \u00a0most of the time he says &#8220;up to you.&#8221; \u00a0but today, he didn&#8217;t want to say that after what happened yesterday on Molokai. \u00a0he knows i was leaning towards another day of high risk adventure. \u00a0 so to be safe, he chose Diamond Head. \u00a0haha. and the waves were [&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":["post-99317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99317","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=99317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}