Tokyo Para event Experience wheelchair fencing Chiba Minamiboso January 21 20:43
An event for children to experience wheelchair fencing, an event of the Tokyo Paralympics, was held in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture.
This event was held to raise interest in wheelchair fencing, a competition in Chiba City during the Tokyo Paralympic Games, and a gymnasium at a school in Minamiboso city attracted about 400 people from kindergarten to junior high school students. Was.
It is a rule that athletes sitting in a fixed wheelchair face each other with a sword about 1 meter long, and in the event, a junior high school student and a junior high school student each belong to the Japan Wheelchair Fencing Association. I experienced the game.
After this, the children were smiling while using a plastic sword to learn basic movements while sitting in a chair and playing games in sequence with a sponge sword.
Ai Suzuki, a sixth grader who experienced the game, said, "It was difficult to move and the weight was too heavy to wear," said Watanabe Taisei of the second year of junior high school, "Supporting wheelchair fencing players at the Paralympic Games." I do. "
Koichi Ushigome, director of the Japan Wheelchair Fencing Association, said, "I'm not yet aware of the competition, but I'm glad I enjoyed it."