Introducing the Reiwa 4th “Charespo! TOKYO” event!

2023 January 3

On Saturday, October 4, 10, we held the participatory para-sports event "Charespo! TOKYO" at Ariake Arena.This year, we will be setting up experience and exhibition booths for various parasports including Paralympic competitions, as well as planning competitions between guests and children, as well as medalists living in Tokyo who were active in the Deaflympics held in May 8. Stage programs such as an award ceremony were held.

In addition to holding the above events, we also set up a booth at welfare-related events and held competition experiences that can be enjoyed by people with and without disabilities.

Details of the day can be viewed on the event homepage.

https://tsad-portal.com/challespo2022/report/index.html

Charespo! TOKYO

Overview

Date and Time

Saturday, October 4, 10 8:10-00:17

Message

Competition experience/exhibition
Stage program (competition between guests and children, 24th Summer Deaflympics Awards Ceremony, etc.)
Online program (Boccia experience)

Guest

Koji Kanno (wheelchair tennis), Monica Seryu (para canoe, para support ambassador), Shinji Negi (wheelchair basketball, para support ambassador), Takuya Furusawa (wheelchair basketball), Motoki Nishimura (wheelchair basketball), Pakkun Makkun (comedy duo, para support ambassador), Obata no Oniisan (comedian talent)

Experience booth

The participants enjoyed experiencing 12 different parasports and events, including Paralympic sports.

Canoe
Canoe
Wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair tennis
Wheelchair curling
Wheelchair curling
Triathlon
Triathlon
Through net ping pong
Through net ping pong
blind football
blind football

Exhibition booth

In addition to exhibits related to parasports, we also exhibited archive assets from the Tokyo 2020 Games, the Deaflympics Special Olympics, and works created by students attending the Para Art School, a cultural school for people with disabilities.

Para sports competition exhibition
Para sports competition exhibition

Para sports competition exhibition

Exhibition of Tokyo 2020 Games archive assets, etc.
Exhibition of Tokyo 2020 Games archive assets, etc.

Exhibition of Tokyo 2020 Games archive assets, etc.

Deaflympics Special Olympics Exhibition
Deaflympics Special Olympics Exhibition
para art exhibition
para art exhibition

Stage program

<Wheelchair basketball exhibition match>

In addition to current players Motoki Nishimura and Takuya Furusawa, Shinji Negi, Pakkun Makkun, and Obata's brother participated in a heated game with children at the wheelchair basketball venue for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Motoki Nishimura and Takuya Furusawa talk about their enthusiasm
Motoki Nishimura and Takuya Furusawa talk about their enthusiasm
Rule explanation by Shinji Negi
Rule explanation by Shinji Negi
Exhibition match between guests and children
Exhibition match between guests and children

Exhibition match between guests and children

<Pegger Ball Challenge>

Koji Kanno, Monica Seryu, Pakkun Makkun, and Obata's brother formed teams with the children and played pegger ball against each other.The children were all smiles as they attached many balls to the guest who played the role of a demon.

Rules explanation by Japan Pegger Ball Association
Rules explanation by Japan Pegger Ball Association
Pakkun and children giving the ball to Koji Kanno
Pakkun and children giving the ball to Koji Kanno
Monica Seryu who plays the role of the demon running away from the children, Obata's older brother
Monica Seryu who plays the role of the demon running away from the children, Obata's older brother

Monica Seryu who plays the role of the demon running away from the children, Obata's older brother

<24th Summer Deaflympics Awards Ceremony>

Awarding certificates and commemorative gifts
Awarding certificates and commemorative gifts
Greetings from the representative by Riho Kamezawa
Greetings from the representative by Riho Kamezawa
Commemorative photo
Commemorative photo

<Other stage programs>

Blind football/deaf football introduction stage
Blind football/deaf football introduction stage

Blind football/deaf football introduction stage

Tokyo Sports Center for the Disabled Presents Gymnastics Time
Tokyo Disabled Sports Center
Presents gymnastics time
Japan Intellectually Disabled Cheerleading Association Performance
Japan Intellectually Disabled Cheerleading Association
performance
Ryuji Tomono Japanese drum performance
Ryuji Tomono Japanese drum performance
What is differential sports?Kamishibai show
What is differential sports?Kamishibai show
Para sports quiz competition
Para sports quiz competition
ending
ending

Online program

Those who had applied in advance participated via Zoom from their homes and experienced bocce together with the guests.

Online participation
Online participation
Monica Serate and Obata's brother experience boccia with participants
Experience Boccia with participants
Monica Seryu, Obata's brother

You can watch the digest video of the day, so please take a look.
https://tsad-portal.com/challespo2022/report/index.html

Charespo so far

*Held at the Tokyo International Forum from 27 to XNUMX.
Prior to 26, it was held at the Tokyo Comprehensive Sports Center for People with Disabilities.

>>About Tokyo's sports measures for people with disabilities