Today, I am introducing 2018 Gyokuryuki
tournament. Gyokuryuki is very famous all domestic high school team tournament
in Fukuoka at summer. As previously introduced (https://www.learnkendo.com/2018/10/the-gyokuryuki-kendo-tournament.html),
elimination style is adopted in here; A player keeps winning can continue until
one is beaten by opponent player.
So sometimes, all players forced to match
(from Senpo to Taisho) by only one player of opponent team. This is likely to
happen especially if one side of team is much weaker than opponent team player.
The following youtube video is 5th
round of tournament. Red team is Mitokiryo and player’s name is Natsumeda (4th
player out of 5: Fukusho). White side is Meiho team, known as strong in Oita
prefecture. They were 3rd player (Chuken), so had one lead over red
team.
Let’s check what happened.
(Before starting this video, red player got
ippon advantage.)
At 0:55, white player approached swiftly
and stroked Men. Red player also counterattack Men immediately. It looked
almost equal exchange.
(From 2:20, versus Fukusho match starts.)
At 3:46 red player hit Do. It was so nice
hit because it was a moment white player completely became unguarded and
impossible to react. With keeping proper posture only makes it possible to
attack precisely in such a difficult timing.
Again, red player stroked Do at similar
timing (5:23) and this time it became ippon.
(From 6:50, versus Taisho match starts.)
Another good point of Red player is strong
defense. Even after he hit (like 7:41, 8:11, 8:22 and 8:47), he never allows
enough counterattack of opponent player, because his footwork and shinai
handling is skillful.
So, white player faced difficulty finding
chances to hit. But, before 10:35 red player consumed much without showing
enough intention to attack, so he was given one foul play.
At 11:07, white player’s Men was good
timing. But including this hit, white player failed to get ippons after that until
end and match finished with red side victory.
The strongest point of this red player
might be steady physical to keep appropriate posture at any time.
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