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.