This 14-year-old snowboarder is said to be from Kumamoto:

http://youtu.be/7wX9X7fh1E8

How does a girl from Kumamoto get to be such a good snowboarder? It’s a little like Jamaica having a gold medal winning bobsledding team. You can read an article in English (the one that took me to this video) about Miyabi Onizuka here:

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/11/12/meet-the-great-white-hope-of-japanese-snowboarding-14-year-old-miyabi-onizuka/