Interview with Takahiko Hayashi, Keio Senior High School baseball manager (1)
Keio High School Baseball Club that participated in Koshien in the spring and summer in 2018. Tokai University Sagami, Tokogakuen, Toin Gakuen, and the powerful Kanagawa prefecture were won. We are aiming to participate in “Summer Koshien” this year as well. In addition to “Bunbu Ryodo”, “player-led team building” such as “free hairstyle” and “no long practice” will be carried out. It is directed by Takahiko Hayashi. After graduating from Keio University, after working at NTT, studied coaching theory at the University of Tsukuba Graduate School, and in 2002 became a teacher at Keio Kindergarten. From 2015 he will be the baseball manager. We asked the forest manager, who aims to “redefine high school baseball,” about the basis of player training. (Interview / text / shooting / editor / media producer Yuki Uenuma)
Aim for a team that thinks for itself
Traditional “enjoy baseball”
The Keio Senior High School baseball club has traditionally permeated the idea of ”enjoy baseball.” In order to become a player who thinks for himself and a team that thinks for himself, the first priority is to enjoy baseball.
My own original experience was “baseball is fun”. When I was in elementary school, I used to play baseball with my friends in a nearby park and play baseball with a vinyl bat. I started playing baseball in earnest after I entered junior high school.
Keio Futsubu was rare at that time, and there was no practice of just running or just pretending. Rather, there was a mind-boggling practice, such as how to understand the situation and how to select the optimal action in each situation. Since I was a junior high school student, I didn’t understand everything, but I was taught the feeling that I had a purpose and acted to achieve it.
