Talk:Human pyramid

Difference between a human tower and a human pyramid
Could someone make a clear definition of the difference between the two, so that it can be clarified on both pages? Wiki-uk (talk) 14:51, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Japan Times
Eight students suffered broken bones over 3 years in 'human pyramids' at school

National October 6, 2015 Osaka

At a middle school in Osaka Prefecture where six students were recently injured when a “human pyramid” collapsed, eight students had suffered bone fractures since 2013 while practicing or performing that stunt for athletic meets, school officials said Monday.

In late September at Taisho Junior High School in the city of Yao, a student suffered a broken arm and five others sustained lighter injuries when a 10-tier human pyramid being formed by first-year students, mostly 12 or 13 years old, collapsed.

That is a stunt performed at sports events at many schools across Japan to showcase a form of physical trading called “kumitaiso” in Japanese. It is a kind of physical education in which students use their bodies to make various shapes including human pyramids, in which students in kneeling positions are stacked atop one another.

The stunt had previously been criticized as dangerous.

In 2014, two students suffered broken bones during performances at that year’s sports meet at Taisho Junior High School of a 10-tier pyramid and of a four-tier “human tower,” the latter involving participants standing on one another’s shoulders. Two students had earlier sustained broken bones during practice.

Two students also suffered broken bones during practice before the 2013 event, as did one student during practice this year.

Despite those injuries, the school decided to continue the program this year with an increase in teachers to support the formations.

Osaka Governor Ichiro Matsui told a press conference Monday that after examining reports on the incident from the local education board, “If safety measures are not sufficient, I will issue instructions and advice.”

To avoid accidents, the Osaka city board of education has limited the height of human pyramids to five tiers and of human towers to three tiers.

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