Emoni
先輩
- 20 Sep 2003
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Hello JREF people,
I have a rather specific problem that I'm not quite sure how to handle. I've fought other problems and been rather successful at times, but my limited Japanese language severely limits my argumentative abilities.
Pretty much I do a sport called Slacklining, a low line tied between two trees (doesn't hurt the trees in anyway) on top which you balance and walk across. It has never been a problem in parks till today, where at the new park where I live I started to set up the line and one of the kanri park guys, an older guy, came over and demanded I take it down, claiming it is dangerous for old people and children nearby. This is a very isolated area, no children are involved nor old people. He claimed that they might walk into the line (it's set up 5 meters across between two trees in a very large park) and wasn't listening to any reasoning. He claimed it is a dangerous sport, and all dangerous sports aren't allowed in the park. The logic behind this was absent.
I'm not happy with this, and I don't pose a threat to anyone nearby me. Sure, I can fall off the line and fall a foot and a half and land on my feet, maybe sprain and ankle worse (never have) but I don't pose a danger to anyone around. I'm not hitting golf balls into the yonder, nor am I setting off fireworks which he compared it to. I would have argued further, but I don't have the ability to beyond rather simple Japanese, plus I don't know his authority, nor the process for fighting this. I checked the sign on the board of the park, and it simply ﾂ"not to do dangerous thingsﾂ" and gave a list of things that I mentioned above that are specifically dangerous to OTHERS nearby, which slacklining is NOT. Furthermore, there was no one around the park or nearby me and my friend.
How do I handle this? Does anyone know the typical rules for parks in Japan, how to argue this, who to go to? Any slackliners in Japan who have had to find a way to get around this crap?
Thanks for any help or advice.
(For those arguing that there is the chance I could fall on a baby or something, the chance is higher of me doing this on a stairway at a station or just walking than slacklining in a near empty park where I don't allow others to use the line.)
I have a rather specific problem that I'm not quite sure how to handle. I've fought other problems and been rather successful at times, but my limited Japanese language severely limits my argumentative abilities.
Pretty much I do a sport called Slacklining, a low line tied between two trees (doesn't hurt the trees in anyway) on top which you balance and walk across. It has never been a problem in parks till today, where at the new park where I live I started to set up the line and one of the kanri park guys, an older guy, came over and demanded I take it down, claiming it is dangerous for old people and children nearby. This is a very isolated area, no children are involved nor old people. He claimed that they might walk into the line (it's set up 5 meters across between two trees in a very large park) and wasn't listening to any reasoning. He claimed it is a dangerous sport, and all dangerous sports aren't allowed in the park. The logic behind this was absent.
I'm not happy with this, and I don't pose a threat to anyone nearby me. Sure, I can fall off the line and fall a foot and a half and land on my feet, maybe sprain and ankle worse (never have) but I don't pose a danger to anyone around. I'm not hitting golf balls into the yonder, nor am I setting off fireworks which he compared it to. I would have argued further, but I don't have the ability to beyond rather simple Japanese, plus I don't know his authority, nor the process for fighting this. I checked the sign on the board of the park, and it simply ﾂ"not to do dangerous thingsﾂ" and gave a list of things that I mentioned above that are specifically dangerous to OTHERS nearby, which slacklining is NOT. Furthermore, there was no one around the park or nearby me and my friend.
How do I handle this? Does anyone know the typical rules for parks in Japan, how to argue this, who to go to? Any slackliners in Japan who have had to find a way to get around this crap?
Thanks for any help or advice.
(For those arguing that there is the chance I could fall on a baby or something, the chance is higher of me doing this on a stairway at a station or just walking than slacklining in a near empty park where I don't allow others to use the line.)
and yeah - no way you could hurt yourself or anyone else from that height unless they were running and didnt see it ... kinda unlikely 
