{"id":99633,"date":"2019-03-09T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=99633"},"modified":"2019-03-09T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T06:22:40","slug":"surfers-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=99633","title":{"rendered":"Surfers Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99635\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.37.17-PM-663x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"376\" \/>\u00a0Asayama-san really wanted to meet Seira-chan. \u00a0so this morning, we went surfing together. \u00a0 i knew they would get along and respect each other. \u00a0one young surfer girl, and one young surfer boy&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99639\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.44.39-PM-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>\u00a0it&#8217;s been a month since there were waves like this at Bowls. \u00a0so i told Seira-chan in the parking lot &#8220;go out and just have fun on your last day. \u00a0all the training is finished, now go surf and enjoy it.&#8221; \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99636\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.41.30-PM-663x378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"378\" \/>\u00a0then she took off and started ripping!!! \u00a0wow!!! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99638\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.46.51-PM-663x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/>\u00a0one of the local ladies at Bowls saw Asayama-san surfing and told me &#8220;he is my hero!&#8221; \u00a0i replied &#8220;he is my hero too!&#8221; \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99637\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.39.07-PM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>\u00a0a month ago, this young girl would look a little lost when we would surf a different spot. \u00a0now, everywhere we go, she figures it out and just connects. \u00a0connecting with the ocean takes people many years to do, in fact, some never ever connect. \u00a0but Seira-chan figured it out in just a few weeks. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99641\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.47.35-PM-663x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"371\" \/>\u00a0after Asayama-san saw Seira-chan surf so good, he stepped up his game. \u00a0 surfing together brings out the best in everyone. \u00a0 that&#8217;s why i encourage surfing with others&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99643\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.48.01-PM-663x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"461\" \/>\u00a0last day, last wave. \u00a0it was a sad day for me because it&#8217;s always so hard to say goodbye. \u00a0i had a great month with this special girl. \u00a0but i know this world is very small so i&#8217;m sure we will surf together again soon&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99640\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.48.37-PM-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>\u00a0then went back this evening to surf with Ueda-san. \u00a0fresh off the airplane, straight into his first wave of the day! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99644\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.49.13-PM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>\u00a0why not surf the day you arrive to Hawaii? \u00a0 if it can make you smile like this, you should! \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99645\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.49.55-PM-663x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"371\" \/>\u00a0i counted 15 waves Ueda-san rode this evening. \u00a0all so perfect! \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99634\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.51.48-PM-663x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/>\u00a0and since it was uncrowded, i had to get a couple of my own. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99642\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.52.45-PM-663x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"372\" \/>hope you get a good sleep and see you bright and early tomorrow morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Asayama-san really wanted to meet Seira-chan. \u00a0so this morning, we went surfing together. \u00a0 i knew they would get along and respect each other. \u00a0one young surfer girl, and one young surfer boy&#8230;\u00a0it&#8217;s been a month since there were waves like this at Bowls. \u00a0so i told Seira-chan in the parking lot &#8220;go out and [&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-99633","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\/99633","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=99633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}