Blog #3

Light, R. (2000). From the Profane to the Sacred: Pre-Game Ritual in Japanese High School Rugby. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 35(4), 451. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

Blog #3

Hey everyone, its me again. My research is going extremely well and I feel like my research project is going to be very insightful and interesting. Using different sports and information will help me get the feel of what I want to complete within my research.

“This article analyzes a different sport within my research, Japanese Rugby. Just coming back from England, I have grown to love rugby and what it represents as a sport. It is very physical and has a lot to offer. This case study does a great job of getting behind the scenes and taking a long look at Japanese pre-game rituals. The rituals were performed in a Japanese way but the researcher claims that they seem to be quite similar as to western sports players “suggesting that they also express and confirm dominant local values and mark rugby as a discrete cultural practice.” This was a great and interesting research topic that chose to go outside the boundaries of Japanese rugby but stay close to home.”

I feel that the researcher did a great job relating pregame rituals to western places. It really made me feel like the Japanese are quite similar to everyone else. This is something that I hope to be able to complete in my report. To demonstrate either a closeness or distance of english basketball players compared to American. I feel like this really keeps the audience involved because you are talking about them.

Travis