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Light at the end of the tunnel | Takumi Hakamata | TEDxHamamatsu


Translation: Shinnosuke Kinoshita Proofreading: Tetsuya Kawaguchi

I was born and raised in Hamamatsu

Currently working mainly in Hamamatsu as a competitor’s yo-yo player

Today I would like to tell you how I won the second prize at the Asian Games

Firstly my encounter with yo was Spring of elementary school fifth grader

It happened that my friend brought a yo-yo when playing in the park

The first time I saw the yo-yo

Huh? What’s going on?

It was enough as a trigger to start yo-yo for me at the time

We started yo yo for everyone who was there immediately

Everyone practicing techniques at first

I was playing yo-yos by competing for who spends the longest

About a month or so

Everyone got tired of yo-yo and started playing soccer

At the time I was not good at exercise only I continued yo

The first time I went to the tournament was my 2nd year since I started yo

It was when a big yo-yo tournament was held at Hamamatsu

The first tournament in my life I challenged practicing everyday from the week before the convention

The result is 51th out of 57 people

I was shocked very much.

But at that time I was wondering what was wrong

I did not even think about it

Because I did not feel the possibility of my yo-yo

My skill was not equipped with originality

After that, the rankings gradually rose at the convention

The technique to do is not changed at all when it first appeared in the tournament

I’m boring with the same skill all the years

I felt that way

At that time I was among the five yo-yos divisions

I decided to challenge the off string string category

The off string is the department where the cord and the yo-yo are separated

You do not understand the reason, do you?

But the technique dispatched from that state is dynamic and more risky than any department

I was attracted to such a place

But when you actually try, you make a mistake and the yo-yo will roll

It will be broken if dropped many times

I seemed to give up again and again

In those cases that supported me

It was the presence of a senior who is doing the same off string on the main

I want to exceed him.

With that one I practiced desperately desperately

Now I am pretty much in the competition to be with him

(Lol)

After a while starting off stringing yo

There was something absolutely indispensable in myself as much as this

It’s difficulty and originality

A difficult technique that no one will do

If you can definitely decide on the stage absolutely cool

I think the technique to put in acting thought so

I tried to omit skills and general skills that people were doing as much as possible

In the beginning I was just putting in the act I wanted to do

I can not show the technique I want to show because I can not decide at the convention many mistakes

Such a state was continued

This is it! I thought I thought

Results of thinking

It’s pretty simple but I increased the amount of practice

I will do techniques I can not do until I can

Withdraw from performance if not able to do

And I practiced 3 hours after school

3 weeks before the event

1 month ago

Results after 1 month and a half ago

Until last year I was preliminary at the national competition

This year I finished 3rd in the final

And at the Asian Games I got the result of second place winning

But I did not get the biggest result yet

What you have come to vaguely

Since I got here so far when I got to lazy

Next to make it the world’s best dream

I think I will try my best even more lazily

And this yo-yo encountered yo-yo changed seven years

Because I do not want to waste this seven years absolutely

I am planning to do performers now at yo-yo

I think that it is the first step to professional performers

Now I am here

I am standing on the stage of TEDx Hamamatsu

And since I’m a performer

I am going to perform from now on

I would like to introduce the yo-yo that I use today

It is this common yo-yo that I use today

Perhaps everyone sees it is not a general shape though

This is the most popular yo-yo now

This and I off string which I currently participate in the convention

It will be the performance using these two kinds of yo

While paying attention to the difference between the movements of the two types of yo

Please look

(applause)

(musics)

(applause)

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