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Kosuke Kitajima trains with Nintendo Wii +
I would definitely consider Kosuke Kitajima the face of Japanese olympics this year. Kitajima lived up to expectations and took gold for the 100m breaststroke. When preparing for the Olympics, it takes years of tough training and physical preperation. However, many times we don’t hear about the mental prepreation taken by the athletes.
Kitajima told reporters that his mental preperations involved a very fitting Nintendo Wii video game, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. Kitajima said,
See, Mario does the breaststroke. And thus, it’s perfect mental training for envisioning the actual Olympic hall.
That’s the perfect sponsorship, and I’m sure we will be seeing the game fly off of shelves.
Via Kotaku.
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August 12th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I watched 100m breaststroke match. Kosuke was amazing~
Honestly, did Nintendo bribe him to advertise “Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games”.
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Just Kidding :P
October 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I watched the swimming and could say he did the best job for japan!!!
October 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
If wii is the perfect mental training for that, are soldiers trained on Call of Duty 4?
October 31st, 2008 at 7:40 am
I love it, he is such a good swimmer and now being a Wii player, that makes him even cooler…
November 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Obviously hes an awesome swimmer so if Wii makes him better I suggest they buy him a few more consoles!
November 19th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
This is nice to hear , video games have undergone a massive evolution since the early days of NES and Sega Genesis.
I use to remember the days when my parents would keep scolding me when I play video games saying that it’s an unhealthy habit and that I should get more exercise.
Now with these new motion dependent technology integrated into the system video games in now considered more and more as an exercise tool which is a good healthy shift of direction.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I remember watching the race, and I thought that he was pretty good. I didn’t knew he used that game to prepare for the Olympics. Seems to have worked very well =).. I watched the video preview on Amazon and it looked really fun =). I think I must try it out.. =)
January 1st, 2009 at 5:48 am
What an endorsement indeed. I going to get that Wii game for myself.
February 15th, 2009 at 7:14 am
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July 30th, 2009 at 2:58 am
i enjoy playing all on the Nintendo Wii. it is very responsive and have more features than some other game consoles.
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