Amazing videos! Thanks John! (I split this from the Big Koma thread).
This is from Fukuoka district, on the northern shore of the southernmost of the Japanese big islands, Kyushu.
Yes, it's very interesting indeed how they mod the hataka koma (with the bowl crown) and yame koma (with the center cone) by removing the tips and putting new ones.
I'm guessing the fighting consists in hitting the target koma with the striking koma, and then see which one stops spinning last, with three fun improvements:
1. You can whip the koma with the rope to extend the spin.
2. You can scoop your koma and keep it going using hand regenerations.
3. You can strike the koma on your opponents hand with the koma on your hand.
The hand spinning duration is amazing!
The "plate regenerations" are so effective that they don't even need to look at the top. The winner gave up at
3 hours, 30 minutes, 33 seconds!
At 9:30 on the video he seems to be in pain, what I first thought was normal after all that repetitive movement. But it turned out that he needed to go to the restroom
, what he did while still spinning the top on the hand (accompanied by some witnesses)!
The use of sand was a great idea. I'm surprised they did not exchange the koma between left and right hands.
