As a story-type family slope, Hoshino Resort Tomamu's Adventure Mountain is no similar attraction even when looking around the world.
Please refer to this experience to learn more about Adventure Mountain
Not only can children enjoy the story and enjoy it, but the fun of the adults who skate with them also clearing the items is a different kind of fun than usual.
If parents feel that the park is too tight, it's a good idea to first bring their children together and get used to the skiing.
The Adventure Mountain started in 2008. From the 24th to 25th season, some parts were renewed with Miura Gota supervised.
In addition to the attraction of enjoying skating each item and aiming for the finish line, we also incorporate the element that naturally improves when you skate there. Where is that secret?
We spoke to Miura Gota while skating together around the Adventure Mountain and the surrounding area.
Course thought based on affordance theory??
--Please tell us about Gota's role?
Miura Gota (hereinafter referred to as Gota) : Tomamu originally had original ideas called Chokkari Daimajin and the forest fairy "Nippo".
I received advice from people who would like more people to come in and ski, and I thought I could create a theme park where I could safely step up, including playing, so I'm helping out.
The terrain itself is used to have its original existence. Additional ideas to it, such as "Berber" or "seesaw" bridge, then jumps, little cobs.
I wanted to create a design that allows the gameplay elements to be directly improved by adding these things.
--Does this mean that you will naturally become better as you play?
Gota: Rather than being taught by someone, children have the ability to adapt to their environment in the first place. There is a lot to learn from playing. At Adventure Mountain, that is important.
The foundation of this is the theory of affordance. Simply put, the environment will tell you.
In the first place, I think skiing and snowboarding are other-dimensional experiences in everyday life. It's long and heavy. If you don't do anything, it will slide on the slope on its own, and there are hard edges on the sides.
Schools will teach you how to use these tools, but skiing and snowboarding are things you do in nature.
The quality of snow changes with time and slopes constantly change. Amidst these various circumstances, there has been little effort to encourage people to discover how to use skiing or snowboarding themselves.
They placed emphasis on how to handle tools in their environment.
Balancing safety and challenge
-With the need for riders of all levels and positions, I think it is very difficult to balance safety and step-up when installing these items. How about that?
Gota: The most important thing was safety. There are an unspecified number of people skating through Adventure Mountain. And it's not that someone is always on-site and managing the situation. In this situation, the key point was how to maintain safety.
There are two points. Course design and make them feel visually dangerous. This is what we do as a safety consideration.
Do you know the movie Best Kid? There was a scene where karate master Miyagi had the protagonist wax and paint the fence instead of teaching the protagonist the karate from the beginning. This was a method of incorporating the movements necessary for karate into your body, and unwittingly mastering karate, resulting in the creation of a master.
This Adventure Mountain is also aware of that. Skis will not bend unless you load the outside feet. In the "Berber" zone on the special stage, if you place the bell on the right side of the tube ring, just by ringing it, it will naturally lead to external foot loading.
By designing it like that, it will naturally connect you to the goal of ringing the bell and the skis bend with the load of the outer leg. If you leave the tube ring wider, the speed will naturally be adjusted, and if you create undulations there, you will be able to understand how to move in a three-dimensional way.
--I see.
Gota: The other thing is to make people think it's visually dangerous. Whenever humans see something scary, they always put the brakes on their own. I think it actually leads to safety to make people think it's extremely dangerous.
For example, "scattering". I stitched the entrance into a zigzag, then stopped and looked at it first. If you keep the area you're feeling a little gentle from 90 degrees, even if it falls, it will just flow. If you draw the line that it's cut off, then no one will probably try to fly.
--My children eventually flew by the "Gakugake" distance. Considering safety, this kind of scary appearance can be a deterrent to some extent.
Gota: That's right. Also, there was a viewing platform where the flag was standing there. Even the waves heading over there were no signs of speed and I couldn't climb to the top. Pump on the descent wave and speed up the waves to climb to the top of the observation deck.
Such movements actually live on the slopes inside the ski resort.
--It 's true that while I was skating, I felt that my eyes were on the terrain on slopes other than Adventure Mountain.
Added the original concept to the fun of sliding
Gota: When creating this concept, it is a huge factor that characters such as Chokkari Daimajin and Nipo were created from the beginning. When children have a story, they become the protagonist and become more proactive than usual.
I think the setting that makes you think of the characters in the story is well thought out. Same goes for stamps and presents. It was reassuring and interesting to see how many people there are from schools, ordinary people, genders and nationalities.
--The route leading up to Adventure Mountain was also good. It's a bit like an advanced version of the movements that you've acquired within the attraction.
Gota: It's nice to be able to ski in the Hayashi area (open area only for advanced players). It could be a small tree run that flies through the mash or slides through the trees.
My kids don't come out of the woods when they're sliding around Teine (laughs). Once you've improved to a certain extent, you'll want to go to a place that will inspire your own originality or adventurous spirit rather than the course. This kind of positivity comes naturally.
--On the way to the lift at the foot of the mountain, you'll find a maze of forests. That's always sucked in too.
Gota: Since the forest maze has no slopes, there were many small undulations. If you're sliding normally, your speed may be slower to the point where it stops, but pumping regularly will help you maintain your speed. As you slip through these things, you will naturally learn them.
See, when I raced with the kids in the forest maze, I slipped from behind and overtaked me, right? Children think about how there must be ways to speed things up, not just rowing on stock, but also try to put them into practice.
--You can truly experience the natural environment that teaches you.
Gota: That's right. I think that children will improve faster if they don't just slip through complex changes in undulations, but rather get used to the natural environment rather than learn them.
--It's more about getting used to it than learning. I think that's true. thank you very much.
Gota Miura
Born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1969. His grandfather was Miura Keizo and his father, Miura Yuichiro, grew up in a ski family. He served as the Japanese representative for freestyle skiing and moguls at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics and the 1998 Nagano Olympics. In 2003, he climbed Everest along with Yuichiro, achieving the first Japanese parent and child to simultaneous summit. He has also been attracting a lot of attention outside of the snow scene, as he has become a hot topic as an over-detailed commentator in the Olympics freestyle events. He also graduated from the Faculty of Sports Physiology at the University of Utah in 2001 and received a doctorate (medicine) from the Graduate School of Medicine at Juntendo University in 2012. Commonly known as "Gon-chan"
Photo/ Key Sato
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Hoshino Resorts Tomamu Adventure Mountain
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