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Summer Training Camp

Place	:	Kyoto
Taken by	:	E. K . (Doshisha International Junior/Senior High School)

This is the gym that we use for practice.

This is one of the "training menus" we use to practice the combination of the setter and spiker.

This is the dorm.

This is the inside of the dorm.

This is the laundry where the 10^th graders clean an enormous number of shirts.

This is during lunch break on the fourth day when some players are tired or even dead.

Summer training camp takes place for one week. We have morning practice from six o'clock to seven, then from 9:00-13:00, 14:30-19:00, and again training from 20:00. Our coach makes practice menus that are very hard in many ways but make us grow physically and mentally. By facing ourselves and the team in this environment of suffering, we learn something very big that cannot be easily explained. Training camp during our teenage years is a huge experience that changes our childish minds; it will show us something new and leave us our next challenge at the end. However, it is meaningless if you do not try to defeat yourself when you are weak. This is the teenage culture in every sports team in high school; it is absolutely different from the training camp that takes place after high school age.

Child Research Net would like to thank the Doshisha International Junior/Senior High School and Mina Kusumoto, student and author, for permitting reproduction of this article on the CRN web site.