Sports · Baseball · 22 hrs ago
High-tech baseball lessons gain popularity among children in Japan
High-tech baseball lessons are attracting children in Japan, including elementary and middle school students.
The classes use equipment also used in Major League Baseball to analyze pitching and batting.
Former professional players help students improve over a short period.
Interest comes as young players gain attention: Yokohama High School pitcher Shoki Oda, whose fastest pitch was 157 kilometers per hour, said in October that he would try to enter US baseball.
The Giants also selected a 14-year-old middle school catcher as a developmental player in the draft.
The lessons are creating a business opportunity even as Japan’s child population declines, and a school called FastBall Baseball AC opened in Tokyo’s Toyosu district in August.
High-tech baseball lessons are gaining popularity among elementary and junior high school students in Japan.
The lessons use equipment also used in Major League Baseball to analyze pitching and batting.
Former professional players help students improve over a short period.
A FastBall Baseball AC facility opened in Tokyo’s Toyosu area in August.
The trend is creating a business opportunity despite Japan’s declining birthrate.
- Who
- Elementary and junior high school students in Japan.
- What
- High-tech baseball lessons using equipment to analyze pitching and batting are gaining popularity.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Japan; a FastBall Baseball AC facility opened in Tokyo’s Toyosu area.
- Why
- The lessons use analysis equipment and former professional players to help students improve. The sources do not state why demand is rising.
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FastBall Baseball AC opened in Tokyo’s Toyosu area.
Yokohama High School pitcher Shoki Oda, whose fastest pitch was 157 kilometers per hour, said he would try to enter US baseball.
- Facility
- FastBall Baseball AC
- Location
- Toyosu, Tokyo
- Opening
- August
- Oda’s fastest pitch
- 157 kilometers per hour
- Equipment
- Devices used in Major League Baseball