Kasuga Gakuen Youth Baseball Club “I will do my best to win”
The leaders who created the trend of youth baseball these days have a sense of crisis about similar but completely different “misunderstandings.” “De-victory supremacy” does not mean that it does not aim for victory. “Fun” is not the same as “fun”. Kasuga Gakuen Youth Baseball Club representative Kaichi Okamoto in Tsukuba, Ibaraki has a guidance policy of “doing everything in the rules to win.”
Kasuga Gakuen Youth Baseball Club, which was established in 2013, is the leading team of “Reiwa Youth Baseball”. Not to mention the prohibition of angry voices and swearing, the whole practice is 4 hours on either Saturday or Sunday. There is no guardian’s tea duty. Many teams nationwide who agree with the policy refer to practice methods and player training methods. Okamoto, who is advocating a break from the victorious supremacy, is raising a sense of crisis that misunderstandings are widespread.
“Isn’t it meaningless for children not to compete in sports and not aim for victory?”
I want to be a professional, I want to be strong, I want to make friends. There are various purposes for playing sports. All athletes practice, to varying degrees. It’s natural that you want to get better because you practice, and you want to win the game.
However, if the leader exceeds the children’s desire to win, they may fall into the “victory supremacy”. Excessive victorious supremacy can lead to abuse and violence by leaders and guardians, and injuries to children, so the wind of “de-victory supremacy” has recently blown into the youth baseball world.
