{"id":13299,"date":"2011-12-31T05:59:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=13299"},"modified":"2011-12-31T05:59:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:59:48","slug":"the-art-of-losing-with-kelly-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=13299","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Losing with Kelly Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1653-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1653-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\neverybody knows kelly slater.  everybody sees kelly slater winning.  not too many people see him losing.  why?  because kelly rarely loses.  for me, i like to watch people lose.  i like to see how they react.  i like to see how they hold themselves together.  winning is simple to be yourself.  losing is not.  i see guys breaking boards, swearing, fighting, crying, or acting stupid.  then i see guys smiling, happy, and holding it in pretty good.  kelly has confidence.  i took this photo before his semi-final heat.  he was supposed to win the pipe masters easily.  he wasn&#8217;t supposed to lose to joel parkinson in the closing minutes of the semi-final.  but he did.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1813-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1813-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13301\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter kelly lost, the whole beach was watching joel parkinson walking up the beach.  kelly didn&#8217;t paddle in and i kept my eyes on him.  i just wanted to try to understand what the heck is going through the 11th time world champions mind.  what was he thinking?  how was he feeling?  i see this guy winning so many times and the only 2 times i saw him lose in person was to andy irons in the finals during the 2006 pipe masters, and the recent 2011 pipe masters.  both times, he didn&#8217;t want to paddle in.  i&#8217;m pretty sure he needed that extra time in the water to cool down.  champions don&#8217;t like to lose and it must hurt to lose and have to come back to the beach to screaming fans wanting your autograph.  i kind of felt sorry for kelly.  but then again, i&#8217;ll bet you he&#8217;ll come back next year and win the 2012 pipe masters.  Go-Kelly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>everybody knows kelly slater. everybody sees kelly slater winning. not too many people see him losing. why? because kelly rarely loses. for me, i like to watch people lose. i like to see how they react. i like to see how they hold themselves together. winning is simple to be yourself. losing is not. i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13299","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\/13299","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=13299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}