{"id":884800,"date":"2026-09-08T19:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884800\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:44:12","slug":"mason-ho-keito-matsuoka-tame-the-samurai-wedge-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884800\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Ho, Keito Matsuoka Tame the &#8216;Samurai Wedge&#8217; in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330032\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-330032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Photo-Mason-Ho-YouTube-670x377.jpg\" alt=\"If he can see it, he can surf it. Photo: Mason Ho: YouTube\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-330032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If he can see it, he can surf it. Photo: Mason Ho\/\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788896652_41_favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watching Mason Ho is not really a good way to get a realistic sense of how surfable a wave is. The Oahu native is known for showing up to the shallowest, gnarliest, most rock-infested spots and absolutely ripping. So it\u2019s best to take his revelation of a surf spot with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>But oh, is it fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>The latest comes from a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/mason-ho-keito-matsuoka-grindiest-barrels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">trip to Japan<\/a>, where Ho and Japanese barrel-hunter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/keito_matsuoka\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Keito Matsuoka<\/a> teamed up to take on an unruly wedge. Amid a chaotic maelstrom of peaks and closeouts, the pair make the unsurfable seem\u2026 well, just barely surfable, honestly.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mason\u2019s inimitable skill makes even the gnarliest wave look like a joy to ride. And his enthusiasm both in and out of the water is infectious (check out Ho checking out that steak).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this isn\u2019t the end of Mason\u2019s eastern sojourn, because I have a suspicion there\u2019s many more untamed wedges on tap in the Land of the Rising Sun.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If he can see it, he can surf it. Photo: Mason Ho\/\/YouTube Watching Mason Ho is not really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,103541,105],"class_list":["post-884800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mason-ho","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}