To the other side of suffering. New challenge of Nishioka Shiho who experienced the Olympics 2 times Vol.1 "Joy that turns into self-confidence is the best attraction"
While reinforcement is progressing in each game toward the Tokyo Olympic Games, one of the events I'm most expected is fencing. Because the association staff and athletes are united and promoting reforms from the two aspects of strengthening and dissemination, with Yuuki Ota chairman being the lead. The other day, I visited the National Training Center where Japanese representatives of fencing, which is a Tokyo Olympic games spot, are active. Only in the female fencing world where the emergence of young athletes stands out, there are still many inhabitants left among the athletes who are in the practice field. Among them, there are beautiful fencers that have a strong sense of existence, due to their elongated hands and feet and slimy stature, like foreigners. Ace of female Fleure, Nishioka Shiho. I got an ace of experienced absentees participating in the Olympic Games in the past two consecutive games and talking about determination to Tokyo.
Taisuke Segawa
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2018/05/11
When I was in elementary school 6th grade, I started by my father's recommendation. Originally my father seemed to think that "I want to make something a sports for my daughter", the director of Wakayama North High School Fencing Division told my father "If you have a small daughter, why not try fencing?" It seems they had a voice and it seems that such adults' light taste began with a clue (laugh).
That means that I did not start with my own intention. Did not you have resistance?
There was tremendous resistance. "I am absolutely irritated" (laugh). "Anyway, let's go to see once", I was forced to take me halfway and when I saw the fencing being done for the first time, it was a movement that I had never seen before, While I was a kid I thought "it's not cool at all" (laugh). But this time I was told to "do it once", I was forced to hold a sword and started fencing. As I kept going on, I kept on doing it, but my high school student 's older brother and sister gently touched me for elementary school students, so they liked the people there, and as it is, with my favorite people I feel like I went fencing and wanted to be together.
フェンシングが嫌いだった少女が、真剣にフェンシング取り組むようになったきっかけはなんだったのでしょうか？
When becoming a junior high school student and going out to the game, you will experience losing in the game. I did not like fencing in the first place, so I did not practice seriously. That's why it's natural to lose, but if you are bogged down with the same year's child, you will be disappointed and will cry one by one. Then, my father got scolded me saying, "I do not practice. I am also unfaithful "Well, that's right ..." (laugh). But when I lost in the winter national competition in middle 2, I was told to the director "If you want to win seriously, come on to practice every day". From there I came to practice every day, when I won the national competition for the first time in middle 3, I thought "Oh, it's fun." I was able to know the pleasure of winning for the first time. If I had not won it then, I may not be doing fencing right now.
もともとフェンシングが嫌いだった西岡選手が、いま感じているフェンシングの魅力とはなんでしょう？
Because it is interpersonal competition, is it good feeling when you beat the opponent in front of you? Afterwards, when I think about strategy myself, when that strategy fits perfectly and I can win, what I have accumulated up to now turns into confidence. The joy at that time may be the most attractive.
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Interview / text / photo:Yasuyuki Segawa
