I
write it about from this of the rowing today.
I
say many times, but rowing is very minor sports in Japan. There is little
competition population so as not to be able to compare with the major sports
such as baseball or the soccer. These include some reasons.
The first is the point that I cannot practice near without area of
the sea. There is not the area of the sea that I float sea and river, boat
including the lake and can row enough anywhere. In addition, I cannot practice
even if the surface of the water is desolate.
The
second is that a tool is expensive. Boat does hundreds of thousands of by
millions of yen, Japan boat cheap most by highest foreign country boat. One set
of oar costs approximately around 80,000 yen. It is not a thing to be able to
easily buy.
The
third does not have an opportunity to come across a boat since it was small.
Most people begin rowing with a junior high school, a high school, the
university. There is a big difference with baseball and the soccer in there
being few people learning rowing since the days of a primary schoolchild.
In
addition, the reasons why rowing is not taken up by the media include that
there are few people who have done it who are hard to become the image. Because
the course of the rowing is a straight line of 2,000m, there is accompanying it
to watch all from a start to a goal. So it takes considerable effort if I do it
on TV. In addition, it is thought that it is not interesting at all for the
person who is not interested because it is repetition of the same movement. And
the TV station will avoid broadcast because it is thought that the audience
rating is not removed because there are few people who have done it.
①
There is not an opportunity to
do rowing. →②They do not become interested in rowing.
→③It is not broadcasted on TV. →④They do not know
the rowing well. →①
Such a vicious circle happens. Therefore
I think that I want you to broadcast it on TV to have you be interested in
rowing somehow or other. In that way rowing wants not to lose baseball and
soccer and to play popular sports.




