The Holtonian

Japanese Samuarai Baseball

So I watched this documentary on PBS tonight about Japanese High School baseball. And being a baseball geek it was really interesting. The Japanese passion for baseball makes americans' pasion about college football appear to be a passing crush. I mean these kids were just so intense, as well as the parents, and school teachers.

And the exercises these high school kids were doing for baseball, wind sprints, sit ups, things high school baseball players here never do. I hate to tell them that a lot of the exercises they were doing really had no baring on their baseball physique, some of them I had never seen before. Granted I know I don't exercise, but still some of them were weird calastetics or pilates or something.

Those japanese, always taking it to the next level.

But come to think of it when aren't the Japanese intense and dedicated... I mean look at Pearl Harbor, Akira, Lost in Translation, Sushi, the Ninja Turtles, Morris, Mr. Baseball starring Tom Selleck, Street Fighter 2, Furbie, Nintendo, and most of all Soduko. I think I've made my point.