An article of frescoball and Japanese National Frescoball Team was posted on a Japanese sports media, Sportie.com. The media did an interview to Japanese National Frescobol Team Players, and I translated to this article.

The first frescoball world championship will be held in Mexico on March 21-25, 2015. The Japan National Frescoball Team will be the only country participating from all around Asia. Takashi Goto is one of the Japan Frescoball Team players. He was surprised about the intensity of frescoball, though he enjoyed tennis on weekends before he met it. He said, “It’s easy to continue rallys slowly, but if you do this, the game points get lower. If I want to gain higher points, I have to play more intense and more technical. It is said that a frescoball player burn off more than 800kcal. per hour.”
 

(Photo: Takashi Goto,  Japanese National Frescoball Team Player)

Shunsuke Fujimoto, pair with Takashi, says “It’s interesting for me to move hard when I play frescoball. The swings are different from tennis. The frescoball swing is difficult, but the sound when the ball hit the sweet spot is very beautiful. “

“When I first played frescoball, it reminded me of a Japanese traditional badminton-like game ‘Hagoita’. Hagoita is played with wooden paddles: like frescoball, and a shuttlecock. I want to tell ‘We have frescoball in Japan too!’ to the players from all over the world, and expand cultural relations. If you start to play frescoball now, you have a high chance of becoming a Japan national team player.” — Takashi

(Photo: Japanese National Frescoball Pair. Takashi Goto(left) and Shunsuke Fujimoto(right))

 

Writor: Ryo Sawanaga, Japan Frescoball Association Intern