Chuken is the just middle person of team
play between jiho and fukusho. Team might expect Chuken to be flexible, but
also stable.
If team situation is behind, player is
expected to push back. And if it is lead, player is expected to keep the
momentus of one’s team, at least tie score.
So, players have to calculate and
understand the flow and it is difficult. Sometimes, very strong players are
placed in Chuken position, which makes it more difficult to play an expected
role.
Red player is Ono belongs to Tokaidaiyon
and white player is Yasuraoka belongs to Oyama high school respectively. The
team score before Chuken was 1(1) – 1(2).
So, white team subtly lead. The following
video shows the match.
At first, red player didn’t show his
stroke, but carefully dodged white player’s stroke.
At 0:29, suddenly he hit Men backward and
it became ippon. Although white player defended, it was so heavy blow that
could reach to white player’s Men.
Red player read white player was coming Men
at 1:58 and stroked Do. It was not hit precisely the place, but the aim and
timing was perfect.
At 2:15, white player hit Men from a bit
left of red player. This time, red player approached risky opponent territory
and failed to defend his attack.
The white player was dominated in the match
before this ippon. However, he caught up only one mistake of red player. It was
obviously good thing not to miss this kind of chance although it is not so easy
to do.
At 3:04 after red player’s Tsuki, he
stopped the match temporarily to check his shinai was not bend or broken. It
was good practice to check like this. Otherwise, it might lead to trauma of
players with abnormal shinai.
Red player had strong physical as seen his
combination stroke from 3:32.
White player tried hard to get ippon, but
he inclined to choose Men especially before the last moment and red player
grasped the counter attack chance hiting Do at 4:26.
So, red player made his team dominated, did
expected work. Not only physical strength but also cool decision made it
possible. Chuken is not easy position.
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