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"Tanaka Hikaru" Former Japanese Olympic gymnasts talk about "gymnastics" and "art" ALE14#09

2017年9月27日、恵比寿アクトスクエアにて、ALE14(エイル・フォーティーン) ♯09が開催された。9回目となる今回のプレゼンターは、1996年アトランタオリンピックに体操日本代表選手として出場し、現在は流通経済大学教授の田中光氏。田中氏は、体操をどう言語化したのであろうか。

Icon aff20898 d2d2 431d 8b05 0f3c5e5ae91bHidemi Sakuma | 2017/10/07
"ALE 14" is a project in which various presenters with titles such as athletes, leaders, interviewers and researchers involved in sports become languages ​​of sports, and the theory and philosophy are conveyed in a more general and easy-to-understand language, the sports world It is a presentation to the future of.

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Mr. Tetsuo Nakanishi, a sports journalist and soccer commentator, served as a Nabie Gator and was drawing a lot of words from Mr. Tanaka.

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田中氏はバク転をしながら登場し、華やかな雰囲気の中でプレゼンショーが開始された。  

Tanaka: Today, I would like to talk about "gymnastics" and "art".

Creation, it is my favorite word. I am always trying to create something. Perhaps I wanted to be an artist. I have left several pieces of work in competition sports exercise.
 

I have been involved in the competition for many years to create a work that gives a person a touching impression through his body through its expressive power.

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「なぜ体操は、10点満点ではなくなったのか」  

In the gymnastics competition, Mr. Tanaka participated in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when it was scored with a score of 10, but after 2004 it has been changed to a method not having an upper limit of 10 scores, not a full score. The reason for this is that the level of skills of players are evolving year after year, so it is difficult to score within 10 points.

Although the upper limit is gone, there is very little in itself that the score exceeding 15 points comes out. Although scoring by AI (artificial intelligence) is experimentally done, it will be more time-consuming to introduce it at the convention as it is still less accurate than the scoring by human beings


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Chinese and Western(Musician)X JAPANが好きなんですか。   

Tanaka(X JAPANThe songs,)Starting from the piano suddenly switch to hard rock. Although it looks loud, I was drawn to the expression power I had not seen before. 

田中氏は、中学1,2生の頃に、悲しい過去を持つX JAPAN YOSHIKIさんの生き方と表現力に共感をしていたと言う。体操で着地時に両手をクロスさせてXと表現したり、平行棒では自称「HIKARU X」という技を名付けるほどに、田中氏は
It is a big fan of X JAPAN.

「HIKARU X」が体操競技の正式な技として認められるのを願って協会に申請をすると、前例がないとのことで却下されてしまうが、技自体は「タナカ」という名で認定を受けている。

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Mr. Tanaka liked gymnastics from childhood, but since it takes 2 hours each way to practice place, I give up gymnastics, I experienced many sports I liked elsewhere, and also studied music such as piano and accordion He did.
 

Chinese and Western: Is it considerably big that the influence of musicality on gymnastics when playing the piano was exercising?

Tanaka
: In my case it is big. Unlike other players,
(Gymnastics)I did it in earnest from a junior high school first grader.
 

After graduating from elementary school, after graduating to Osaka Seifuku Junior High School with gymnastics prestige, devoting to gymnastics
After that, he has participated in the Atlanta Olympics as a representative of Japan.

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「バク転は、誰でもできるのか」  

There is a difficulty to fly behind and there is a sense of fear that you can not see the back, so there is a high possibility of major injury if you fail. Elementary school students are able to make a backflip in a very small number of children, but it is said that more children will be able to do smoothly when they are older than junior high school students with leg strength.

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Mr. Tanaka
Details of the appearance ALE 14 # 09 will be published on the ALE 14 official website with a video.

Tanaka Hikaru
Gymnastics Atlanta Olympics Japan representative / Ryutsu Keizai University Sports health science department · Professor
Proceeding from the prestigious gymnast, Osaka · Seifu High School to the University of Tsukuba, at the age of 24 he participated in the Atlanta Olympics. At that time, the original technique of the highest F difficulty at the time, twisting before twisting twisting showed off the somersaulting arm support (Bere 1/2 twist) at that time, the technique was officially named "Tanaka".
Currently he is a professor at the Sports and Health Science Division of Ryutsu Keizai University, and he is active as an educator and commentator.
 


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