Goods and Industries of Sports

Though very regrettable, this column will serve as renewal of the last of this blog. Is this language real intention? Or is it irony? The meaning of this text changes according to you. I would like you to examine this text right or wrong slowly. Now, I would like to talk about cheering of sports and the relation of goods this time which is the last round. Although it has gone ahead with the talk paying attention to a sport specific till last time, I will carry out the talk of letting you understand in a sport at large this time. Although it was the purpose to carry out the talk which I let you understand in a sport at large from the first, such a style has been adopted for convenience until now.

I have told you being related little by little with cheering goods and by the time it continues till this time. Do you remember that? The origin of cheering goods is in our personal appearance. These things became cheering goods: a muffler, a towel, an umbrella. Also often and bad, goods are indispensable to present watching sport games. These days, the variation came out in the goods for cheering. Various things, such as lunch which a pro's player produces, a receptacle into which the ticket of a game is put, and a notebook in which the schedule for a game of the team is indicated, are put on the market. Of course, the stand is established in a match court. These days, we can buy goods on the Internet. These days, we can be concerned with various things now. That is, we do not exist in the situation where only the thing limited like ancient times can be concerned. What kind of thing can be said from this? It means that the number of spectator mobilization is becoming fewer. Therefore, the sport industry offers various goods in piles for the device. First of all, most of the income of a sport team is the sales of ticket cost and goods. The sport industry must make an effort to sell many goods inevitably. Although it is important to sell goods, it is also important to please a visitor. By pleasing a visitor, the person may think that he would like to come to see a game again. The reputation of sports circles may become good, taking advantage of the opportunity, and the number of visitors may increase. Pleasing a visitor exists on the basis of a service industry.

Did you hold watching sport games recently? There may also be a person of not having held watching sport games once. Although it is being able to say in every field, we are certainly charmed by a pro's work. It is very precious experience to engrave the strange world in your own memories. Watching sport games will extend your own view of the world.

At the last, thank you for reading my column so far. I am looking forward to being able to meet again.

Cheering of Sumo

Following on last time, I will also introduce cheering of the sport which is not baseball this time. The cheering party existed in cheering introduced until now. What kind of role has the cheering team played in cheering? A cheering team is a leader of cheering. When a cheering team exists, the spectator can cooperate and cheering. I would like to introduce cheering of sumo this time. Those who may hear cheering of sumo and cannot understand should exist a little. You will consider cheering of sumo together with me.

The cheering of sumo is very simple. It is that each of spectators send encouragement is the cheering style of sumo. A spectator sends encouragement to a wrestler, sitting on the seat on which the floor cushion is put down. Cheering of sumo differs from cheering of baseball and soccer very much. Baseball and soccer are team events. In a certain game, two cheering teams exist and cheer each team. The cheering of sumo does not much have bipolarizes of spectator's thinking. Spectators cheer praising each player's good fight. Of course, although the element which is the praising a player is contained also in cheering of baseball or soccer, it can see being few compared with aid of an individual match like sumo. Moreover, I think that sumo is a sport which has prepared the opportunity which can see a player from a short distance most in the sport of an individual match. The game of the sumo seen near the sumo ring will be exceptional. One more difference in cheering of the sport of a team event and the sport of an individual match exists. The difference is that the leader of cheering like a cheering team does not exist. Spectators have sent encouragement to players freely in the range which does not receive cautions from the mechanism of each sport. Moreover, the greatest feature of a game of sumo is being able to see the game of both of games of the player as whom the name has become known to in the future and a game of the player who is likely to become famous at the same place. The game of sumo is divided into six periods, and held by every two months, and is held 15 games in one period. That is, 90 games will be held in one year. However, about a wrestler with a low program, only seven games are held in one period. Since there are many wrestlers to whom it belongs as a low program, time will become insufficient if all the members play a game. But two or more places which play a game of sumo cannot be prepared.

Have you seen the scene where the floor cushion is flying about in the sumo ring? This is an act performed when a yokozuna is defeated by the wrestler of degradation of a program. This originates in the act which hands the congratulatory gift of Meiji Era. Sumo is a national game of Japan. It is that such a traditional spectacle can be seen is also one of real thrills of watching a game of a game of sumo.

flying floor cushions

Cheering of Soccer

This blog’s theme is “Japanese sports and fan support”. Although I have told you to the cheering of Japanese baseball as a concrete example, I don’t tell you to the cheering of whole Japanese sports yet. We must consider the various cheering style of Japanese sports―no, we should do that. This time I want to tell you about the cheering of soccer. Let’s think about the difference of cheering style of a baseball and soccer.

The cheering certainly exists, if a spectator exists. Then, it is a problem how cheering culture is developed. The cheering of each sport completes original cheering culture by development of each cheering culture. The feature of cheering culture finds out the feature of these sports. Although it seems that I say repeatedly, since the cheering culture is established, watching sport games is familiar for people. The cheering is bipolarized in the style which always sends encouragement, and the style which sends encouragement at the key point. The cheering of soccer is the former style. The cheering of soccer resembles the cheering of baseball in respect of cheering using a thing. The cheering of soccer is using the towel to the cheering of baseball using musical instruments. The reason which came to use a towel for cheering is like the cheering team of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows having come to use an umbrella for cheering. These common features are using familiar things for people for cheering. The regulation was applied to the thing which can be carried in a stadium under the influence of a hooligan in England in mid-1970. Incidentally, a hooligan is a spectator who is excited by the game of soccer, etc. too much and causes confused fight. The spectators who have been regulated about the thing which can be carried in a stadium came to cheering brandishing a muffler. And this spread all over the world gradually. Moreover, since people have put on the muffler only in winter, they came to use the towel which is unrelated to a season for cheering of soccer.

Now, cheering of soccer has had big influence on cheering of baseball. Also in it, the cheering team of the Chiba Lotte Marines is affected most. Since the cheering team of the Chiba Lotte Marines has as close a relation as the cheering team of the Kashiwa Raysol, both sides are going to develop the culture of aid. As you know, both the headquarters of the Chiba Lotte Marines and the Kashiwa Raysol exist in Chiba. It is that a mutual cheering teams become close is naturally.　It is a very good thing to obtain a good idea from the different world and to develop culture.

The following thing is being able to say every sport and is a thing which I would also like to emphasize any number of times. While the culture of cheering develops, the cheering which meets various spectators' needs and a spectator's manners become a problem. I am looking forward to about how cheering culture will often develop from now on.

Production of a Ballpark and Relation of Cheering

 While those who consider the cheering of the baseball of Japan pessimistically exist, on the whole, cheering of the baseball of Japan is affirmed. These days, a fan's cheering and the production of the ballpark match well. Since the cheering style of the baseball of present Japan exists, the image that the baseball of present Japan exists will spread in this world. I would like to tell about the history of the production of a ballpark, and the relation of the production of a ballpark and cheering this time.

 The live music of the electronic organ was in use at the beginning of the production of the ballpark. According to the game, the player of the electronic organ was performing the electronic organ. Since the performance of an electronic organ was performed in the intervals of a player's play, the player's play was not disturbed. Although the ballpark using the production using an electronic organ exists even now, these days, the production which used the back screen is increasing.

Production Using an Electronic Organ

　The production of the latest ballpark is becoming showy. Musical volume is also becoming large. The image projected on the back screen is also devised considerably. Although the image which made the scenery of practice or a game was passed in many cases, in these days, the image with which the professional baseball team side cooperated with the professional baseball player is created.

Production Using the Back Screen of SEIBU Dome

Production Using the Back Screen of Kyosera Dome Osaka

 Now, there is production of the ballpark in the United States as one of the reasons to which the production of the ballpark became showy in these days. American baseball culture considers that delighting a visitor is the main thing. The ballpark in the United States does various things in order to get a spectator to enjoy. For example, in the Minute Maid Park, if the player of the home team hits a home run or the time of starting the game, a small engine will run in a ballpark. This is connected with the Minute Maid Park being a former site of a station. In Kauffman Stadium, water blows up from a fountain between innings etc.

 Now, the ballpark in Japan imitated the culture of baseball of United States and has tried making a new ballpark. Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima is the comparatively new stadium which imitated the culture of baseball of United States and was made. The seat which can watch a game while it has a barbecue or can feel a player's play at a short distance etc. are located in the Mazda stadium. These days, the ballpark is used also at places other than watching baseball games. The production which is that parties concerned make an environment like a ballpark is used all-purpose is considered. This is performed in order to have it recognized that a stadium is familiar to public people.

 Although last time also described, this policy does not necessarily get everybody's spectator to have a favorable impression. However, I think that parties concerned have to regain the popularity of baseball by such a device since baseball spectators are decreasing in number gradually now.

Opinions of Baseball Fans about Cheering Style

An appeal is insisting on the opinion of one strongly. It is a key to a success how an opinion tells an advantage well. It is the same in this column. However, I think that I am bad only by telling an advantage. If the essence of a thing is told, I think that it must tell a plain thing. I think that I will talk about the problem of cheering of professional baseball of Japan. I would like to talk referring to the opinion of the professional baseball fans of the Japan whole country.

Do you remember what I spoke about the reason why the cheering party is cheering in the outfield bleachers? The reason was to keep the sound of the musical instruments used for cheering from becoming the disturbance of a player. Not only a player but also some spectators think that the sound of the musical instruments of a cheering team is noisy. First of all, what is the real thrill of watching baseball games? Probably, those who think like this exist: The real thrill of watching baseball games is enjoying the sound of the bat which resounds to a ballpark, when a batter hit a pitcher's ball and the sound of a catcher's mitt which resounds to a ballpark when a catcher catches a pitcher's ball. Furthermore, that dome ballparks have increased in number in Japan also becomes a problem. Since sound sounds very much in dome ballpark, people who think that the sound of the musical instruments of a cheering team is noisy can't stand cheering in a dome ballpark.

Although it is being able to say in every business, an operation company and the operating institution must carry out business which can meet a visitor's various needs. However, it is a talk on a fancy to produce the correspondence which can meet various needs to the last. I will consider the correspondence on the fancy in the problem of cheering of the baseball of Japan. Saying from now is my subjective opinion. Even if there is an opinion about this, I think that it is unavoidable. But, we have to extract the thing outstanding from various proposals. It is happy if my opinion can be heard as a reference. The cheering style of the ideal which I consider is cheering of the major leagues. While the player is playing, it is quiet, and it rises by all the members in the time which should rise. I regard just this as it being cheering of an ideal. However, now for people who want to raise everything, it is dissatisfied. Although it will be best that the musical instruments of the volume which annoys nobody exist, this is a talk on a fancy.

I have talked about the problem of cheering of Japan. As stated above, you have to consider how it should solve problems. This is for the honor of the culture of cheering of the baseball inherited from generation to generation. In order to hand down a wonderful thing called baseball from generation to generation, I think that we have to think earnestly.

Differences between Japan and Foreign Cheering Style

I want to talk about differences between Japan and foreign cheering style. The cheering about the professional baseball of Japan was mentioned as the example until now, and it talked about Japanese cheering culture. How does cheering of foreign baseball differ from cheering of the baseball of Japan? Let's explore cheering of foreign baseball together.

First, I will mention cheering of U.S. baseball as an example, and will consider it. You actually look at the game of the major leagues, or watched the baseball relay broadcast on television? I want people who have seen games of the major leagues to imagine the spectator under game. Spectators of the major leagues are fundamentally quiet. What is the cause of this quietness? The big difference between cheering of the baseball of Japan and cheering of U.S. baseball is the existence of a cheering team. As for there being a cheering team, people who watch the game in the ballpark always hear that the sound of the trumpet and drum of a cheering party, and the musical instruments which spectators use for cheering is sounding in the ballpark. Since a cheering team is not prepared on U.S. baseball, a game is fundamentally quiet. However, spectators of a game of the major leagues are not necessarily always quiet. Rather, it is more emotional than spectators of the baseball of Japan. Spectators of a game of the major leagues will boo, if the player of enemy team carries out a fine play, and if the player of the team currently cheered carries out a fine play, he will give a shout of joy and applause. It rises or frolics. The cheering style of the spectator of the major leagues may be what was produced therefore it was enjoying watching a game of baseball purely.

The cause of the difference between the spectator of the baseball of Japan and the spectator of the major leagues is not only the existence of a cheering party. Structure of a stadium is also one of the causes of that. Although each structure of the ballpark in Japan is alike, structure of the ballpark in the United States is very free. Ballparks in Japan are made from Safety First. The device for the stadium in the United States is elaborate to get a spectator to enjoy watching a game more. The seat of the ballpark in the United States is prepared so that it may become the about the same as the height of the ground if possible. This is for increasing an opportunity to come into contact with a player. Only the quantity of necessary minimum nets is prepared for the same reason.

Chhring style of America

How is cheering of the baseball of Taiwan or South Korea? In fact, a strong resemblance to cheering of the baseball of Japan is born. The cheering team is prepared and it cheers like the cheering team of the baseball of Japan. Moreover, in cheering of the baseball of Venezuela, there is microphone performance by DJ in a stadium. It is appealing to broadcast using a microphone or rise to a spectator.

Cheering style of Taiwan

Cheering style of South Korea

Cheering style of Venezuela

Compositions of Each Baseball Team's Cheering Team

I will talk about the composition of a cheering team. As stated above, a cheering team is an organization which consists of fans of each of the professional baseball team. Now, the cheering team exists in each professional baseball team for every area, and cheering teams in each professional baseball team consist of about 10 organizations. Five or more organizations jointly perform cheering activities in most cases at the same stadium. Of course, the rule is firmly prepared for the each of the cheering team. The cheering team is always cheering in the outfield seats because cheering in the infield seats is forbidden. The rule is set not to disturb players. The rule about the cheering tool is also established. If an application is not carried in a ballpark, it will become impossible to carry in a cheering tool.

It is that such a rule was born is related the problems which the cheering party has caused. Although various cheering teams were working in 1970 and afterwards, it turned out that the person who had acted as a certain professional baseball team's management were the person involved in a gang. Moreover, there was also a cheering team's person who sells the ticket of a game of professional baseball freely without obtaining permission. These people were arrested. Moreover, the cheering team's member who pretended that the cheering song whose person who did the lyrics and composition of the original melody does not understand was created by itself was arrested. Nippon Professional Baseball Organization which is called NPB introduced the perfect registration system from 2005 in order to lose such a problem. That is to say, from 2005, organization activity and entering a stadium came to be accepted only the cheering team which got permission. "Puroyakyuu Bouryokudantou Haijotaisaku Kyougikai" was established at the same time. It consists of the National Police Agency and management of 12 professional baseball teams.

A classification of the member of a cheering team can be divided into two. Cheering teams are a general member and a special member, and are constituted, and it is only a special member that uses musical instruments like a trumpet. These days, the rule to a cheering team is severe. It is because documents were needed in order to join a cheering team. In order to join a cheering party, the method of speaking in the cheering party staffs in activity at a stadium also exists. However, some cheering teams may be looking for the member on the official site of the cheering team.

The area only for a cheering team to concentrate on cheering is established in each ballpark. There is also a ballpark in which prepared fine regulations of deciding the position of people with each professional baseball team's flag, or the cheering tool and the number which can be carried. A cheering team is private to the last. All activity expenses, such as ticket cost and expense of the transportation, are paid out of member of cheering team's own pocket.

You also need to keep moderate cheering in mind.