nalukatoku

Japanese: nalukatoku
nalukatoku

...This figure is almost the same as that of an 800m swimming race. There are various theories about the origins of the trampoline, including a Spanish game called pelele, in which a straw doll is kicked up with a blanket, a prank called "ketage" in which a human is tossed up, and a sport played by the Eskimos in Alaska, called nalukatoku, in which teammates toss a sheet made of walrus hide to each other and compete for height and number of times. However, it was adopted as a circus acrobatics about 200 years ago, and it was used to amuse and amaze the audience by jumping over several elephants and spinning in the air, which is thought to be the origin of the modern trampoline. [Masahiro Inagaki] [Naoki Ito]. ...

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Japanese:

…この数値は800m競泳とほぼ同等の数値である。 トランポリンのルーツには諸説あり,わら人形を毛布ではね上げるスペインのペレレpeleleと呼ばれる遊びや,人間を放り上げる〈ケット上げ〉という悪戯遊び,またアラスカのエスキモーの間で行われていた競技で,セイウチの獣皮等で作ったシートをチームメートにトスしてもらいながら高さや回数を競い合うナルカトクnalukatokuといったものがあるが,200年ほど前にサーカスの曲芸に採り入れられ,これを用いて何頭もの象の上を飛び越えたり空中で回転したりして観客を楽しませたり,驚かせたりしたことが,現在のトランポリンのルーツであると考えられる。【稲垣 正浩】【伊藤 直樹】。…

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