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The importance of a sense of balance in culture outside of work
Celeina: I sent you RTSAK’s “The Way They Do (Pender Street Steppers Dub Mix)” selected by Eda-san. It’s a little boogie-woogie.
Takano: Very cool. I would also like to ask you about the culture you are into outside of work.
Eda：I have been into natural wine since about 10 years ago. I met the people I am going to introduce next, and that is how I got hooked on wine culture. We went to Yamagata together to pick grapes.
Celeina：Serious.
Eda: We went to wineries and were allowed to dip the grapes and make the wine. These people gave me quite interesting experiences. The terraced vineyards on the slopes, with moderate temperatures and direct sunlight, seem to be a very good location for growing grapes, and I was able to learn a lot from them.
Takano: There are many different designs for wine labels. It would be interesting to see how they are designed.
Eda: One of the things that got me hooked on natural wine in particular is that many label makers like music, movies, and other cultural elements. I think it’s cute that they have graphics sampling cultural material on their labels, which is more pop-like than the usual mass-produced wines.
Celeina：I like that. Of course it tastes good, but it is also pleasing to the eye. I’m a little curious about natural wine, but I heard that you are also into something else.
Eda: I have been riding a pisto bike, which is an oval or bicycle race bike made to be ridden on public roads, for about 2007, a crew called MASH in San Francisco proposed a street pisto bike riding style, and I was one of the first to try it. YOPPIY (Yoshifumi Egawa), a designer at the time, introduced it to me, and from there, both Kabaya and I were hooked, riding bicycles like skateboards.
Celeina：Do you use a pisto bike as a means of transportation? Or do you enjoy riding a pisto bike?
Eda: All of them. We would get together at the park to practice tricks, and then go home. We would go out for tea, go to the office, and go to meetings on it.
Celeina: Did you ride your pisto bike here today as well?
Eda: It was hot today, so I didn’t ride it because I didn’t want to go in there all sweaty (haha).
Celeina: You said you were going to practice tricks on a pisto bike.
Eda: I wasn’t that good at tricks, but I practiced the basics like turning backwards, doing wheelies, and braking with my feet. Basically, it’s a fixed bike, and the gears are fixed. So if you pedal forward, you go forward, and if you pedal backward, you go backward, so the power is transmitted directly and there is no waste.
Takano: A sense of balance is important, isn’t it?
Eda: It’s very important.
Takano: Oh, bal.
Eda: Oh!
Celeina: I think we have connected the stories.
Takano: That’s today’s keyword.
Celeina: You introduce your friends to us through “FIST BUMP,” a circle of friends connected by “go-touch.”
Eda：There is a natural wine shop called wineshop human nature in Kabuto-cho, Nihonbashi, and I would like to introduce Shinichi Takahashi and Mikachuu there.
Celeina: In a word.
Eda: I would say original, or rather quite unique.
Takano: Thank you very much, I would like to answer tomorrow. Tomorrow, I will connect you to Shinichi Takahashi and Mikachuu of wineshop human nature, a natural wine specialty store.
Celeina: FIST BUMP, today we welcome Ryusuke Eda of bal. Thank you very much.
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