Hokuryu Kendama Club 3rd Anniversary Tournament 2024・Adults and children played together selflessly!

Thursday, September 26, 2024

On Tuesday, September 24, the Hokuryu Kendama Club (Representative: Naoki Kishi) hosted the "Hokuryu Kendama Club 3rd Anniversary Tournament" from 6:00 p.m. at the Hokuryu Community Center's 2nd floor main hall.

Nineteen children (and one adult) from Hokuryu Town, Uryu Town, and Numata Town energetically participated in the event, where playful events and trick battles were hotly contested. Families also participated by observing and helping with the proceedings.

sporting event

1. Takoyaki Championship
2. trick battle
   Competitions are divided into two levels: Sunflower Level and Dragon Level.
3. drop test run

9 medals & kendama prizes

The winners of each competition will receive 9 medals and kendama prizes.

9 medals

Prize Kendama

Otoshi Test Showdown: Special Prize: SOMA Professional Model Kendama

As a special prize, a SOMA professional model kendama will be awarded!

Greetings from Mr. Masateru (John) Akamatsu JOHN

Good evening, everyone! It's already the 3rd anniversary! I was shown the kendama that you have practiced for 3 years, and it's already falling apart, so I realize how much you have practiced!

I did the certification test every week, and every time I saw a video on Instagram that said, 'I passed!' I could tell that everyone and their fathers and mothers had worked hard.

We recently distributed a video of a DJ on artificial turf in the streets of Asahikawa. We hope you will join us in the future.

Today, we will all win 9 medals and kendama to take home with us!
The last special prize, a valuable kendama, is also highly praised by Kisuki!
Take it home and play hard so that your mom and dad can take a picture of you! Best regards!" John said.

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Greetings from Mr. Ryo Kato

Today is a very valuable experience, so please do your best! said Ryo Kato.

Start of competition

1. takoyaki championship

• Kendama are placed on three tables, and the tip of the kendama is placed in the hole of each kendama and stands on the table.
• Compete for the time to complete all three kendama stands.
• When moving the ball, only the right hand, which controls the kendama, may be used to move the ball; the use of the left hand is prohibited.

Everyone cheers for the players!

Be calm and polite!

Match the movement of the kendama.

Yay!

Gamba!

A kind senior who comforts and hugs a junior who couldn't do the technique well!

2. trick battle

rule

• Perform tricks in order from 1) to 5).
• If successful on the first try, go to the next trick (in that case, the number of times is marked as 1).
• If you succeed in two tricks, go to the next trick (in that case, the number of times is marked as 2).
• If successful after 3 times, go to the next trick (in that case, the number of times is marked as 3)
• If successful after 4 times, go to the next trick (in that case, the number of times is marked as 4)
• At the end of five times, add the numbers listed, and the lower the total number of times, the better.

Sunflower Level (5 tricks)

1. Hand-held platter - Ken
2. Vine ~ One Handed Catch ~ Small Plate ~ Large Plate
3. Tomeken - Mochi changeover (also OK to turn)
4. Baseball - 5 times
5. Large Platter ~ Large Platter Hop ~ Swallowtail

Dragon Level (5 tricks)

1. Refund - Mochi transfer - Refund
2. Flying - Mochi Change - Chikyuu Mawashi
3. Lighthouse by Sakayoshi
4. Flying trapeze - 3 or more times with a leopard's eye - KEN
5. Around Japan - Around the World

Compete in pairs!

Nice, hit!

Calm down!

Focus!

3. decoy test confrontation

• Holding the ball in the other hand, the player drops the ball from the top, and then sticks the tip of the ball through the hole in the ball.
• Ten tries are made and the first one to catch it wins!
• Adults and children work in pairs!

Yay!

Yes!

Clear at the same time!

commendation or awards ceremony

Takoyaki Battle

• Winner:Shuto Sato, time 14'46"
• 2nd place:Yume Satoh, time 14'89"
• 3rd place:Natsuya Ogawa, time 18'05"
• 4th:Seiya Fujii, time 18'66"
• 5th:Kiko Takegahara, time 22'48"

Winner: Mr. Shuto Sato

2nd : Yume Satou

3rd : Mr. Natsuya Ogawa

Trick Battle: Sunflower Level

1st : Saki Katoh

2nd : Sakuya Fujii

3rd : Sakura Tanimoto

Trick Battle: Dragon Level

1st : Naoki Komoto

2nd : Haruki Komoto

3rd : Seiya Fujii

3. decoy test confrontation

Special Prize SOMA Pro model KROM Soma Fujita Pro model kendama

This is the first professional model for Kanuma Fujita, a player on the KROM pro team!

The pattern is based on a leather-processed wisteria flower, leather-processed and decorated with Mt. Yotei, a local mountain in Hokkaido, Japan. The material is birch, so it is lightweight!

Includes a bag decorated with wisteria flowers

Winner (Special Prize): Haruki Komoto

Message from Naoki Kishiro, Representative

Thank you, everyone, for the many participants, both adults and children. Everyone's eyes were different colors and they were competing seriously.

My current Beiryu Kendama Club aims to be a place where there are children and adults interacting with each other, and I hope that you will continue to join us whenever we have mini-games.

Another event is planned for December, and adults are encouraged to attend.

At the end of the event, we have prepared snacks as a participation prize, so everyone can take some home!"

Greetings from Mr. Masateru (John) Akamatsu JOHN

Thank you all for your hard work!
As Kissey always says, it doesn't matter if you can do it or not, as long as it's fun, it's good enough!

Those who received medals were happy, and it was unprecedented for adults to be so stiff and serious! Me and Kishi-kun always say that this is how it should be.

I am doing this because I think it is better to feel the joy of 'being able to do it' than to feel 'it is difficult,' so I will see you again!

Lastly, in honor of our third anniversary, I would like to present you with two original ASAHIDAMA T-shirts.

A commemorative photo with smiles on everyone's faces!

Finished by receiving a gift of candy!

Award winners being interviewed by Hidenori Ukawa, head of the Fukagawa Branch of the Hokkaido Shimbun.

• I have been playing Kendama since the very beginning and enjoy it very much!
• I enjoy that people around me are happy when I complete a kendama trick!
• I was happy and had fun when I could do the round-the-world technique.
• I also play volleyball, and I think that the movements I do with my knees in kendama are connected to those in volleyball, so there are some commonalities in terms of muscle use that I find useful. It also improves my concentration.
• It also enhances cooperation with peers.
• I thought the takoyaki battle was great because it was not a competition of skills, but rather a fun event for everyone, even the little ones!
• At home, I practice about 2-3 hours a day. When I go out, I always walk around with it and practice with it.
• It's fun to have something to get lost in!

We express our unlimited love, gratitude, and prayers to the "Hokuryu Kendama Club," where both adults and children play selflessly, and enjoy themselves to the fullest with smiles on their faces as they exercise their whole bodies and minds.

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