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The Insane Life of a Japanese Little Leaguer
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For anyone interested, Kotaro Kiyomiya, one of the players mentioned in the video, is now an All-Star in the NPB! He’s gonna do big things for his country at senior level if his ability continues to rise.
To add, an all star at first base. Dude have massive power in his swing and always hit fly balls, unfortunately he's not hitting much (also got injury problem). I hope he will fulfill his potential someday since I like watching him play at the Fighters
@@BrySA20000 reckon he’ll go stateside when he gets the chance? or will he stick to japan
@@jayesse9053 if he improves and stayed healthy. He seems to be a confident guy (watch Cody Ponce's vlog that featured him and Gosuke Katoh) and wanted to prove his talent. Sadly he's off to an injury problem again right now, so not in the coming future. I just hope he at least become a solid player in NPB for now
@@BrySA20000 former yanks prospect gosuke katoh
I just watched the movie Sandlot. We see Benny the Jet, who made it to the majors because he practiced, practiced, practiced. But Benny played so much because nothing else was as much fun for him.
I’m from Brazil and been taught baseball from start till now 38 years old by Japanese coach.
Everything you say is true. They apply the same method over here.
First thing they teach you is respect over everything else 2nd dedication. Before you step into the field we take out our hat and bow to to the field as respect . Every time coach come talk to you I take out hat and listen to the instruction.
Sadly I didn’t make into the pros cuz got injured. But I still playing and will do until I die !! Baseball is life !
How does baseball compare to soccer there?
@@nofurtherwest3474baseball here is a niche sport, it is basically played by people of Japanese descent (Brazil is one of the countries with the most Japanese people outside of Japan) and also by some Latinos who live here. Unfortunately, the popularity in general is low and there is no comparison with football (soccer) which for us is a religion. Other sports like volleyball, F1 and basketball are also more popular than baseball here.
Sorry for my english, I used to translato to explain to you
@@nofurtherwest3474I love baseball and I play with some Japanese friends here in Brasilia, I hope that one day we can have a professional league here in Brazil like in other countries in South America and the sport can become more popular. I also hope that we can reveal more talents and that they can reach the MLB one day like Yan Gomes did
Yeah I'm sure you didn't make it to the pros because of an injury.
@@bsu88making the pros is easy for baseball
As a Japanese who experienced playing baseball in Japan, I agree. Little league coaches are the best coaches in Japan. The reason why is for middle and high school coaches to be able to coach their team, they have to be a teacher. Many great coaches don’t want to go college again to just to be a school ball coach. That’s why they coach little league where they can just coach without any certification.
Japanese Little League coaches are coaching for the love of the game and not for money. Plus, Japanese coaches don't have to put up with nagging American parents. Yeah, Japanese parents sometimes complain, but not to that level.
The main reason the best little league players don’t make it to the next level is simple. The greatest players typically have a physical advantage over the competition. They tend to have hit their growth spurts earlier and just have more raw strength and power like they are on natural steroids. However like a horse that runs too hard out the gate, they slow down eventually, their growth plates fuse shut, and they stay that same size forever. The ones that make it to the next level grow later and longer and develop their talent with their newfound size.
That hit a little too close to home.. lol - from a dude who is the same size in my 40's as I was in 8th grade hahahaha 100% true.
@@bochafish Me too.
@@bochafish i’m going on my senior year of high school after hitting puberty hard in 5-6th grade. haven’t grown an inch since 7th, little muscle mass put on. seeing kids a year ago were dweebs that i could punk, stride past me in weightlifting and athleticism. where i once was dominating in sports in my youth i just kinda don’t progress. quitting football due to concussions too :/
@@skrobie You are still so young, keep lifting. Believe me, it gets way easier to put on mass as you get older. Luckily I was nice to all the kids that became giants in my school. 5'9" 165 isn't too bad for baseball. I also quit football senior year. Ran a 4.75 40yd, and benched 210, 28 inch vertical, but couldn't take that starting spot.
Happened to Me. I was Babe Ruth and Cy Young from 10-14 years old. Then everyone caught me at 16 and 17 I was nothing special. But I was 6-0 feet tall in the 7th grade and coordinated. I did not grow much after that.
I used to be an English teacher in Japanese Junior High schools. I would do practice with these kids just one day a week and I was exhausted and sore the next day every time. These kids are really dedicated and good, but I also want to say it hurts their education too. The kids who play baseball in my English class would always be extremely well disciplined but they would be exhausted and I'd have to excuse them from assignments. I feel sorry for them. They don't really have the fun at that age they should be having. I have a son here now and I want him to play ball, he wants to too, but I will have to take care of his mental and physical health. I'm worried he will want to quit an lose his passion.
let him roll. if he loses the passion it wasn’t meant to be a long term thing and if he doesn’t well anything could happen.
Im sure their not complaining they have discipline something most Americans lack not only in sports but school & work
The purpose of education is to help a child grow into an adult who can contribute to society and follow their own path. Baseball teaches discipline, teamwork, leadership, and physical fitness (although some too extreme). Their education is to supplement their future by introducing concepts and giving them fundamentals, but it’s not the ultimate deciding factor of how successful someone is or how well their life goes. Kids need to relax and have fun but too much is never good.
@@user-mm8vw1ow1x keep telling yourself that to make you feel better. Im sure they dont view it as a military regiment, thats what they sign up for, to be the best.
@@jonstravels1085 That's not sound advice. The whole point of the video was to showcase the extreme training regiments Japanese players go through at young age. It's like taking up swimming, but never swam before and getting thrown into the deep end of the pool. It's grueling training that if you're not borderline psychotic, you won't make it out without some sort of resentment for the sport you once loved.
Here in Japan, I’ll occasionally drag myself out of bed for a 6 am run on the weekend, and as I run by the fields I often will see 8 year old little leaguers already practicing! The discipline at that age amazes me, and it also made me not want my kids to play baseball…because I would need to wake up as well to take them to practice!
I think all of the sacrifices they make don't always mean they will be the best as adults. Though of course some do very well. But it seems that overall, as adults, they don't do that much better than Americans or say Domincans, etc.
Similar in academics and soccer. The Japanese, and the South Koreans, put much more effort, or at least do it in a stricter setting, but I don't think it really results in the superior outcomes in the adult world. Perhaps it stifles them in other ways
I really appreciate your comment@@nofurtherwest3474
Now i love baseball more than ever, is just beautiful to watch Japan playing baseball.
After watching this last WBC, it's rather obvious that thet Japanese are the Masters of Baseball...
Sports are supposed to be fun
@@SSNESS They are surprisingly passionate despite all the pressure
I practiced kendo in Madrid (Spain) for a while like two decades ago. From time to time the friday's practice (we had 3 practice a week) went down in a school only for kids of japanese high executives and diplomatic staff, it was a rather small school but it had it's own baseball field and a gymnasium that was impressive for the size of the school. Those fridays we practice with the kids of the school, and let me tell you; those kids put all the adult "rookies" to shame, their dedication and focus was amazing, a thing to see.
60 home runs in 50 games is absolutely absurd
vs a player done 60 HRs in a 162 game season
thats a 1.2 homerun rate every single game. i wonder how his average looked and what his fly ball-home run rate is
Had a kid in my little league, KMO was his nick name , he was batting .650-750 and had 17 HRs in a 22 game season like 58 rbis
Dude got into percs at age 13 and ruined an amazing talent
@PapiNotDaddy my batting avg in ll was 863
@@PapiNotDaddy *Be quiet, junkie* 🤦🤣
No one ever talks about how Little League is relative to 13U age players playing on 9U size fields. That's why the pitch velo, as it relates to the distance between the mound and the plate, is so high. And conversely why there are so many home runs. At that age, these players should be playing on high school size fields as they are in other organizations like Perfect Game, USSSA, 2D Sports, etc.
abuse. the core of all good sports team
*youth sports teams
That shit isn't gonna fly past high school. The endless fundamental drills remain but not the endless running punishments.
The problem is you call making kids run "abuse" and that discourages kids from wanting to play. You aren't going to get anywhere without discipline.
@@JonahMarksMusic Nailed it.
@@rmp5s I am certainly not condoning some of the Japanese "training" discussed in the video, but if you let anyone sit on their butt for an entire practice because he doesn't like it, he's not getting anywhere in the sport.
Gets you a shohei ohtani
Japanese players learn to respect the game, they take care of their equipment, they maintain the field and they dont drill players because someone hurt their feelings
I appreciate how hard Japanese children train. I will not try to take that away from them. American kids are taught to respect the game from age 4 or 5. That's where the unwritten rules of Baseball come from. Baseball equipment is very expensive. Coaches and parents make sure that the player's maintain their gear. After every game win or lose the home team takes care of the field. My son has been playing since he was 4 and is currently in highschool and I have never seen a pitcher hit a batter because his feelings were hurt. That kind of "justice" is extremely rare.
@@perceivedvelocity9914 the unwritten rules are more common in the major leagues
I went through little league in Japan. It was harder than being in the infantry lol
This is how you make a Shohei Ohtani. Discipline and pressure made another diamond. Like ichiro
If that were true, there'd be more shoheis in the world.
Shohei is mostly a product of his own talent. Otherwise, the MLB would be eating up, and made up mostly of, Japanese players and bringing the same traditions to their system. There is a lot of talent in NPB but no more than anywhere else.
i think that's part of it but ohtani is way talented to be simply called by practice its special with him
Isn't Ichiro estranged from his father due to the harshness of the mental and physical rigors enforced upon the son during his youthful baseball years?
@@leebranch1228 Exactly this, a lot of the tactics are just abusive straight up. Of course you're going to train "perfect" fundamental players when they are training 10+ hours a day, but there's a limit to how much practice actually does not to mention the strain on your body as a whole.
I gotta say it's not all little league teams that train like this. I've seen some that are fairly casual compared to the video. They definitely live and breathe baseball here from young kids to adults. Even females show true love for baseball! I love Japan.
Can I ask - how does a 13 yr old play in this tournament, are they all 13? I googled it and it say they were 10-12 yr olds.
@@nofurtherwest3474 I think that would be breaking the rules which has happened countless times 😅
Just discovered you have these longer format vids and they’re AWESOME! So thorough. RUclips needs more like this.
Watching koushien is a good experience. There's no ticketing so you just show up. It definitely has the March Madness vibe. You're more likely to see potential pros at the HS level since their closer to their full height.
Fantastic video I really enjoyed it Thank you for posting
I implore anyone who likes this video to check out Big Windup, or in its Japanese name, Ookiku Furikabutte. It touches a lot on the kind of stuff here, and at times reads a little more like a Japanese baseball textbook in manga form rather than a story. It follows a small (and I mean SMALL) high school team who's goal is to make it to Koshien. The protagonist tends to annoy people at first, but given enough time, becomes a very heartfelt character that you just can't help but to root for. He is Yakyudo if it were an anime character.
Currently, the manga is going through nothing but practices, practices, and more practices. It kind of feels like we're being put through some of that same motion-after-motion stuff described in this video. But I'm now getting why that is.
I just now searched this anime and will subscribe to the web site because I am ready to read manga
with the Rise of Shohei i feel like their training will be much more difficult now than ever
They get BURNT OUT! My grandfather played pro ball but got hurt in his second year playing and never played again. So he tried to relive baseball through my dad. My dad played college baseball but never made it after that. So when I was little I loved baseball. Travel leagues and local leagues but my grandfather and my dad shoved it down my throat. I had a pool growing up and I’d have friends over swimming and my dad would make me come inside and take a nap before the game. I played varsity as a freshman in HS but after that season I was so burnt out….it wasn’t fun. So I switched to basketball and football.
I’ve lived in Japan for 13 years and watch the annual tournament many times. Japan baseball is successful because of the commitment from the kids, family, community and the country. They don’t play on pristine fields are have the best equipment but rather they are driven towards perfection. There size and power in my opinion is affected by the over training. The calories they burn and the limited amount of protein intake catches up to during the growth years. If they were to take a step back from the extra practice and allow the kids rest, rehydration, and more protein the would produce more super stars. Watch Japan closely because soccer is the next sport they will become super competitive in.
I agree completely with your advice. The average pattern of Japanese middle class diet has to change, so look at Osumo. Diet. It is refined to be exactly what is necessary for endurance in the sport, same thing for the weight training. This isn’t new technology but it’s a kind of common sense. I don’t understand what has happened. In the disconnect with Japanese thinking about baseball.
I remember going to practice, getting up around 5-6 am and then I get to leave early since I'm not a player nor a coach which is 4 pm while the rest are still practice until they can't see the ball anymore which is around 7-8 pm. This is their routine practice and it's considered normal for these kids. Even Tee Ball starts from 8 am through 4 pm. I remember during our 4-hour practice at the LLWS, our opponents asked me, "Why do you practice like this?" I was laughing, that this is light practice compared to our normal routine practice. ESPN reporter asked me, "Why are you practicing 4-hours before playing Canada?" I said the same thing, "Have you seen our normal practice?" We still practice after scrimmage. When you have your own field, you can't take it for granted since most Japanese teams don't even have a field
@@ohfumi at last I found your comment. I have lived here for more than 20 years and raised 2 daughters who participated in vollly ball training from early elementary school. I have taught first year univ. English to sports team members of various sports. Now I walk near the kindergarten where the assistant plays with a soccer ball in organized drills 2x a week, or more. the Elementary school baseball team is out practicing for hours and hours on weekends. I wonder if the value is so great, or is it just that in this society everyone is doing it so, that makes it ok. No one discusses the need to correct traditions which are not beneficial in these modern times. Obedience is a virtue. But blind obedience is a weakness.
@@Edo9River going back to our 2017 LLWS, 3-players have already quit due to burnout in high school. 1-player did get drafted & 3-players will play baseball in 🇺🇸‼️ High school baseball is a bit too much. Some coaches still beat their players in the head with a Kendo stick. I just spoken to 2015 Kengo Tomita & he wanted to quit high school baseball because he just burned out, but the only reason why he played is the fact that he did compete at the Koshien. He would’ve quit otherwise & now he goes to college in 🇺🇸, but he seems to show lack of interest in baseball. It’s such a waste, but I can see it in his eyes that he’s burned out
Great point! Recovery is definitely important!
I count myself blessed to have lived and worked in Japan for about 9'ish years and the regiment, dedication, commitment, focus, resilience, attention to detail, and respect for the process and coaches (teachers, instructors, supervisors, and elders) is engrained in their culture and manifests itself throughout society, business, and sports.
Having grown up playing baseball through college while picking up on road cycling in my 20s, I always found myself mesmerized when I cycled by a baseball field and watched groups of young baseball players practicing in such a regimented way and was always impressed and inspired when I saw them dressed in their white baseball uniforms riding their bikes in a group to baseball practice - always with smiles on their faces with laughing while keeping pace with their pedaling. From late at night during the week to just about any time during the weekend, baseball lives. In fact, I absolutely loved watching older men playing in baseball leagues over the weekend - another example of baseball being engrained in the culture.
I'll always remember the first time I saw the high school summer championship on TV shortly after my arrival in Japan. From the level of play to the respect shown to one another to the nonstop excitement and cheering/chanting/music playing in the stands, it was electrical. I kept reflecting on my playing days and how thankful I was to play for some amazing coaches and players, but I wished that I had grown up living and playing in Japan.
Anyway, I wanted to share my experiences and to also thank you for putting this great video together.
Domo arigato gozaimasu and otsukare sama deshita! ❤🗾⚾
9:53 Harold reynolds on the broadcast of that game called him the little babe Ruth haha
I went to a basic high school in Japan as an exchange student and the baseball team there was nothing special as in they rarely qualified for regionals and such. Despite that all the students on the team spent 3 hours after school each day practicing and had games every weekend. They were DEDICATED.
that's any high school baseball team
Baseball youth leagues in Japan are very similar to AAU basketball leagues in America. It's essentially a full time job as a child l.
It's literally a military lifestyle in Japan when it comes to baseball. You eat, drink, and sleep baseball. I am not joking. Everything else except school work comes secondary.
That's a really good idea to have the best coaches at the lowest level. The kids get to learn from the best right away
I was the interpreter of the 2017 Tokyo Kitasuna Little League. Out of all the blogs & videos about Japanese Little League teams, this is one of the most accurate regarding Japanese LL baseball. Just to let you know, only 1-player got drafted from the 2017 Tokyo Kitasuna LL (Ryuto Konno) whose currently playing for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars (Trevor Bauer’s current team) the truth is once Japanese kids start quitting after high school baseball mostly because they start burning out. Japanese high school baseball is like a military camp. Out of all the kids from the 2017 team, Ryusei Fujiwara is probably enjoying playing baseball because he played high school baseball in 🇺🇸 & got a scholarship to University of Washington. The reason why the 2017 Little League World Series score was so lopsided is because they got to understand Western baseball because I played LL in 🇺🇸‼️
Late response. But I love watching your videos on the Tokyo Kitasuna LL team. It still amazes me that in a 6 year span they were able to make it to the LLWS 4 times!
Also the full game of the 2001 championship is on RUclips. I hope you can also post more videos about the 2001, 2007, 2014 teams.
@@isaacchang1702 I really appreciate you informing me about the 2001 LLWS finals we've been looking for this for years. Now I can inform GM Kubo and his son that I finally found the 2001 LLWS finals. When I was awarded as the interpreter of the 2017 LLWS, the GM asked me if my company would allow me to take 3-weeks off, because after winning his 1st ever LLWS, his boss cleaned up his desk and put it in a cardboard box telling him that he was fired for taking 2-months off work. Back then, you'd have to also complete in the Asia Regionals which is 3-weeks long. So Japanese companies are very impatient and doesn't care about Little League Tournament. Which is why Japan Regionals are forced to cram a 16 tournament games within the weekend, because no coaches gets paid to coach Little League, they all have real jobs not related to baseball.
exceptionally well done clip all around and just plain fascinating. subbed.
Little League in America is pretty shady as well. Each little league puts together a all-star team to represent their league. The all-star team never plays a single game in the league that they represent. Also, the little leagues in America are very flexible about where kids live. They recruit boys who live outside of their region for their all-star teams.
Japanese culture stresses subjegating individual desires for group or societal goals. Although I knew little about youth baseball in Japan, your video didn't really surprise me. Despite having limited resources, Japan is a world leader in many fields.
But they are close to DEAD LAST in metrics that matter the most to a nation's preservation: Economy, happiness level/quality of life, and birth rate. That's what happens when you subjugate individual desires for the goals/directives of a group or society.
You are absolutely right.
So it is the Japanese who are the most surprised that Shohei Ohtani came out.
Japanese people thought that Japan would never produce someone like him.
There is no telling how much awareness he has given to the Japanese people today.
Subjugating*
-3rd largest economy in the world, 28th in GDP per capita
-25th on the OECD Better Life Index
-a birth rate that is the highest in East Asia aside from North Korea and higher than a few European countries
None of this sounds like "dead last".
@@gordonbgraham No. No one thought he would become such a great player.
He was a very famous player in high school, but he was famous as a pitcher.
No Japanese thought he would be able to both pitch and hit in MLB and achieve so much.
Japan, and East Asian counties in general, are brutal. Children burn out incredibly hard, and often have some sort of scars that carry into adulthood.
One of the first things to surprise me when flying into Okinawa was seeing all the tall nets around all the baseball fields i could see.
Denying your players water is such a BAD IDEA 😂
Japanese people dedicate themselves in whatever endeavor they take on. Love them!
I agree with this video so much. The travel ball system we have in the US is stupid. It's beyond stupid and isn't developing talent. In fact it's acting as a barrier and creating an elitist attitude among parents which shouldn't be there. It's going to turn baseball into a "country club sport." When you have 6-7 year olds leaving parks to go play travel coach pitch something is wrong. When close to 12% of players who make up MLB are from a country with a GDP that is 12% that of the USA per capita and kids grow up playing stickball in the alley you know something is wrong with our system.
North America and Western Europe: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
Japan and the Pacific Rim: "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down."
It’s Tokyo Kitasuna LL which cruised through the 2017 Japan Regionals, but was thankful that Tokyo Nakano lost to Chiba City in the 2nd round of the Regionals. Chiba City was upset that Tokyo Nakano was saving their ace looking ahead to Kitasuna so Chiba City used their ace in the 2nd round. From what I heard he was drafted. In the 2017 LLWS yes, the 2-games which were close were 🇰🇷🇲🇽 who actually the favorites on paper. The closest game was 🇰🇷West Seoul LL which we won 4-1. 4-players were from 2017 🇰🇷West Seoul did get drafted by 🇰🇷 Professional League, maybe 5 since their best pitcher was an underclassmen & currently a senior in high school. So far only 1-drafted from 2017 🇯🇵Tokyo Kitasuna team. The game against 🇲🇽 in the International Finals was 5-0
I'd be willing to bet Japanese parents do not harangue the coaches and umpires as is too common in the US.
Now I understand why some of the best major leaguers are Japanese, they train hard, maybe too hard.
I was born and raised in Okinawa, but moved to the New Orleans low class neighborhood as a teen. I've never seen a bigger difference in culture than that. One side is respectful, and hard-working and their success is their reward.
Okinawa or new orleans?
I love going to the LLWS in Williamsport, Pa. I especially watch for the Japanese team. I even high fived the whole team one year as the passed by. Now I am really amazed that this team gets beat, and by kids who are having fun too. I often felt bad for the Japanese team because they were sequeastered by their coaches and not allowed to mingle with the other teams. While excellence is a fine goal, there is much, much, much more to baseball than winning. One reason I love the little leaguers is that they are having fun. Even when they lose a game, they have a few tears and then minutes later they are doing cannon balls in the swimming pool. I'm never certain about the Major League players who are so "cool" and practiced, I wonder if there is much fun left in it for them. But one phrase is often used to characterize baseball, "It's a kid's game".
They take it like that😳
Of course it's more expensive to travel in the US. People don't realize how huge this country is. For context, England is 50,000 square miles. Washington State is 71,000. Japan is just over twice that at 145,000. It's barely the size of two average states.
That's not why it's expensive. It's the fees charged by the greedy leagues and various coaches. It's not like the kids are being loaded onto Gulfstream jets and flying to the next town. They usually play regionally.
If you take kids in a van to travel two hours in a bus will probably be more expensive in japan, gas cost way more there and the highways are not free, the tolls are very expensive,
@@lovelessissimo Also, many high school coaches have for profit summer camps and clinics that are expensive. If your child doesn't attend the coaches camps, there is big chance he will not make the high school team.
@@midorimage exactly.
Youth baseball in North America (The US and Canada) has become a cash grab more than trying to turn kids into great ball players
How?
I'm from hawaii, i wanna say the honolulu little league 2018 team "cheated" too and had kids outside of their district.
There is more to it , and it goes at the heart of why so many don’t make it , despite all of the hard training and competition level.
For Dominican and Venezuelan ball players , the path from instructional leagues through the minors and up to the majors is the ticket out of stricken poverty. You average Japanese little leaguer has other options beyond baseball Dominican and Venezuelan kids can’t even fathom.
So is playing for las grandes ligas or bust. Even Puerto Rican and Mexican ballers might have fallback alternatives. Your garden variety kid playing instructional league in the Dominican Republic forgoes education to practice all day long. He dreams in buying a house for his mom.
There is actually a good flick on this , the short Pelotero , produced by Bobby Valentine, and narrated by John Leguizamo , about the fate of some kids in the DR. There is the sure thing , the actual Miguel Sano, and the one left behind , Jean Carlos Batista.
This is a very well detailed video 👏
Cannot underestimate how unpopular LL is in the US these days. Travel Ball is where the best players play and it is not even close.
My daughters softball league has some pretty insane coaches. Mostly former college players, who often dont have kids on the team. She played some little league before softball and it was exactly like yoy say, parents with no coaching experience.
I think a lot times, most of the people that should be coaching, just don’t want to coach. They reach a point of saturation, and want to just go back to being a fan. I played football thru high school and university, often times for multiple teams when I was younger. By the time I got to the point where I could coach one of my step sons, I only coached him for 3 years because I just got burnt out and being a fan again was much more appealing.
It’s not for me to say if what an entire culture deems acceptable is good or bad as long as it doesn’t emotionally or physically harm children on a regular basis.
Exactly right. A lot of the things highlighted here are typical no matter what activity a child is perusing in Japan
The music is annoying.
No offense but probably what actually “breeds excellence” in Japanese little league were the points you first mentioned: it being a popular sport with no monetary blockage in getting high level training and practice. Not the cruel and intense punishments. In fact, the best baseball training in the country has stopped long ago with these techniques because they wear out players’ bodies by the time they’re in college.
Edit: You did kind of approach this point towards the end.
I have been playing baseball since when I was 5 and all that stuff and I'm still good ngl.
No wonder shohei Ohtani became so good.
The thing about the LLWS is that you’re putting big ass 13 year olds on fields meant for 8-12 year olds. There’s no leading off, the infield is small, the fences aren’t far, and the distance from the mound to home is short. At the end of the day it’s really dumb because leagues will just have these kids play down a division just to dominate on a field they have no business still playing on.
Yup. That’s why most blue chip kids don’t bother with little league. My area growing up didn’t even have an official little league. Either pony or usssa
This is the life I wish I had as a kid
Why?
@@rustyshackelford4224maybe he had a chaotic childhood with no structure? Maybe his family couldn't afford to put him in sports but he wanted to be a baseball player from a young age?
I taught in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan and I'd get these middle to high school age kids that were absolutely DONE by the time I saw them mid-evening. I did feel sorry for them. There was little joy in them, just respectful attention to what I was trying to impart to them. No wonder they dip after the pressure's off.
I’ve been watching mtc for a long time and I’m glad I’m subbed to him he makes awesome vids
i went to japan in the winter these kids were playing organized ball outside it had to be 20 degrees outside with wind
seems like it's a little more than "just a game" to Japan.
Ace of Diamond, a Japanese Anime, might interest you are interested in the Koshien and high school baseball
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Nomura from the 2001 team also lost the koshien finals in 2007 5-4 after surrendering a grand slam leading by 3 in the 8th
3:33 - your American flag has too many stars.
2:36 - some say the Japanese have flexible neighborhood boundaries ... and that smacks of racism. WHAT!?!?!? If that is racism, then I guess everything is, which it seems is true for many people today.
Otherwise great video. Love and respect to Japan!
I remember the road to Koshien is really hard.. That's the best of the best teams in the whole Japan fighting for a championship
nice vid, very interesting history
i think the Japanese Little leaguers are more fundamental trained thats why they win. even their clean up hitter will bunt if it can score a run. im not sure what causes this kids to not get to the pro league but i think it just goes down to them peaking early (physically).
The harsh reality is that top level play requires raw talent that no amount of discipline or developed skill can replicate. You can't teach height, you can't teach max strength, and you can't teach max speed. Each individual has physical limits they can't surpass and elite athletes have higher limits. Japan is good at getting each player to their theoretical maximum potential in baseball, but they will eventually be passed by those with raw talent.
日本のリトルリーグ(12歳以下)では勝利より楽しさを追求する指導をしています。
そしてU13に出場する日本代表選手は他の国とは違い1年下の年齢の選手しか出れていません。
My son was lucky to be drafted by a coach that never left little league, for about 40yrs. When the Coach was in his younger days he took Dunedin, Fl to the LLWS. I & my son have never learned so much in baseball from him. 4 championships in 3yrs later, now my son has to go to the older league. After being spoiled from Coach Vince's guidance, it is going to be a hard transition
This is just another perfect example of what can happen when people take things too far.
they did not win in 2014. South Korea beat Illinois in that years final. it was 2015. please check your information bud
Also Kōshien has made great impact on anime and manga. Thats why all shounen (boy) cartoons and comics have some type of tournament in them.
Well they came thru in the world baseball classic
6:28 Seiza for five minutes is not extreme. Will it hurt ya. Your legs might feel numb for a little after but it’s not extreme.
is it Japan creating more Ohtani right now?
Taiwan has not won a llws champion since '96. But they've remained top contenders in the international bracket, so it's not like changing the team make up made a big difference.
They have to be grittier because they're typically smaller players, Japanese baseball is one of the best besides minor leagues
If one little league wins four championships, man, there’s a lot of smoke.
If y’all like anime there’s an anime that is called Ace of Diamond which is based off of a kid playing on a HS baseball team in Tokyo
They wake up, go to practice, go to school, go back to practice, go home and do homework. Repeat. At least the team Japan we played against. Awesome guys, also won the whole thing no problem which was scary
this is exactly why USA teams should play every team and not just the USA teams... should just be a huge bracket of the worlds best not babied to Americans because they are hosting the event.
I’m in Japan I’m in the middle school baseball team also I’m in chiba
Japan's national sport is Sumo. Baseball is probably a close second. While baseball may be more popular, it doesn't have the same deep connection as Sumo. Sumo is theirs. They created it and are the undisputed best at it. I think that sets it apart, but I can understand why some would believe baseball to be the national sport. I'm sure even some Japanese people would say baseball is the national sport.
as someone who's lived in japan for more than half my life Sumo really isn't popular at all and almost all people under the age of 40 only know of the name and concept and don't follow it at all.
@@17Trees33 That makes sense. Thank you for enlightening me. I suppose I was referencing the technicality more than anything.
@@PKnight37 yes, Sumo is seen as more traditional and nowadays seen as more of a gimick sport but there are still some fans but baseball is 1000x more popular than sumo if not more
@@17Trees33 That's a bit unfortunate to me, because I have much respect for Sumo and the ones who practice it. Baseball is great too, but hopefully somewhere down the line Sumo will regain some of it's old prestige.
I know I’m definitely not in high school, but my coach still makes us run foul pole to foul pole. It sucks.
What I like: Participation cost is generally a lot cheaper, good coaching
What I don't like: Too much like the military
As a Marine, I half agree and half disagree.
What gets me with this, as a western kind of guy, is expecting a man's commitment and dedication from kids 8-10yrs old, for a goal that like most goals are impressed upon you from outside... it isn't the discipline in itself, or corporal punishment from coaches, there are times to be serious!, but the idea, if you can't go 'home', have three or more days off a week, it is seen as a parental weakness to not provide a somewhat safe home environment for a person's own kids/children. I suppose this is 'little league' and somewhat separate. Sports can teach values such as fair play or discipline -are seen in this sense, with the full intent their son, or daughter will go on to study science.
YAKUDO=THE WAY OF BASEBALL
If this was true then Dominican and puerto rican little league teams would be better they arent forced to go to school just wake up and play baseball so maybe some of them are older that are playing
Not to mention future big leaguer Devon Travis was also on that 03 boynton beach team. I didn’t know they got mollywhopped like that by Japan tho
"The most of any country not named America"
Cries 17 times in Taiwan
There is another very real factor, and its summed up in an Ice hockey saying. "You can't teach 6'3"." Sometimes people just don't have the physical ability as adults, Japanese children tend to have their growth spurt later, so they have even less of a clue what their final product is going to be. I know people who were lights out in Ice Hockey, Basketball, and Football at age 10 or 11, but stopped growing at 5'2, and were just too small to compete. In baseball, height doesn't matter as much, but some some people just don't the body to sprint quickly, some people need glasses at 15 years old. Some of them realize they are even better at a different sport. In my case, until I was 13 I had a hockey, but once I turned 14, it was clear that my body type was more of a Offensive Lineman in Football, and as much as it was to be the massively oversize(6'3" 250 at 17 years old) Ice Hockey Power Forward that was utterly unmovable in the crease, being that big has downside, in that I wasn't quick, I needed seven strides to reach full speed in a sport where two or three was desirable.
There are things Americans can learn from the Japanese... yes, there's always something to learn, but ichiro showing up is the way they do it
Respect and don’t a pig at the field is a must form mlb.
I hate to watch mlb and see players trowing garbage on the bench
I used to play baseball in little league in Japan.
Me and my friend who also belonged to thesame team talked about how it was back then.
I told him I had never fan time in the team.
and he said he hadn't either.
they are too serious to baseball.
They don't know how to play.
I mean "play".
I used to play in Edogawa Minami little league when I was in elementary school
Only thing I have a problem with was Deion’s comment saying baseball is too expensive…the most overused comment regarding the sport. Costs 2k for little league? I think he’s mixing that up with travel ball.
In regards to the cost, this isn't unique to baseball. Look at any of the major sports in the USA, and you'll hear the same complaints.
So if this is little league in Tokyo, a congested city, how does one team get ten hours of field time? Suspicious.
whatever,they produced Shohei Ohtani, Japan is the GOAT.
If the Japanese are gonna do something they FREAKIN DO IT!