{"id":5106,"date":"2014-08-24T21:58:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2011\/08\/24\/welcome-to-kinsans-world\/"},"modified":"2014-08-24T21:58:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:58:06","slug":"welcome-to-kinsans-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=5106","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Kinsan&#039;s World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100824215853.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: blue\">every once in a while, i sit down and think about how the heck i know so many people in japan.  there are a few key players that made it happen and kinsan is one of them.  it was back in 1992 during the ASP contest in Miyazaki.  i lost earlier that day so i went exploring in the night life later that night.  i walked into a loud bar and smelt something funny.  i see martin potter and start talking to him.  i ask him what that smell was.  it smelt like hair burning or something.  then the japanese guy walks up to me and says &#8220;hey, what&#8217;s up brah?&#8221;  it was kinsan.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: blue\">ever since then, i&#8217;ve seen kinsan all over the place.  and everybody&#8217;s been telling me that he&#8217;s the best surf photographer in japan.  back then, kinsan only took the elite surfers on trips all over the world..  i use to pick up surfing world magazine and dream to be in there.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: blue\">then about 4 years later, i was surfing 8-10&#8242; sunset and after i kicked out of a wave, i saw kinsan in the channel shooting photos.  we started talking and he said &#8220;hey, there is an open slot for the upcoming tahiti trip next month.  wanna go?&#8221;  what?  me?  he said &#8220;yeah, you, shuji kasuya, and mar ono.&#8221;  i remember that day clearly because i paddled straight in after that.  why?  because i didn&#8217;t want to get hurt and blow the chance of a lifetime.  i drove home in pure excitement and called my sponsors that day.  they gave me the green light and the rest is history.  welcome to kinsan&#8217;s world&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3234.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: blue\">ever since then,  i&#8217;ve gone on many trips with kinsan all over the world.  and throughout the years, i&#8217;ve met many awesome people through him.  i always look back and am really thankful of the wonderful people i connected with from him.  so here it is.  i hardly say this to kinsan because it&#8217;s a guy thing.  but i&#8217;ll do it. &#8220;thank you kinsan for making a lot of my dreams come true.  and most important, thank you for connecting me with the wonderful people around you.  i&#8217;ll never forget it.&#8221;  this is a photo of the wild side of kinsan.  i&#8217;ve seen this so many times and it just gets funnier and funnier&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>every once in a while, i sit down and think about how the heck i know so many people in japan. there are a few key players that made it happen and kinsan is one of them. it was back in 1992 during the ASP contest in Miyazaki. i lost earlier that day so i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-go-naminori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","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=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}