Excerpt from
YourLungHealth.com
featuring Dr Tom    

Believes the Sport of
Blowgun Could be
Beneficial to Patients
Q. Dr. Tom, I was surfing the web, and found a post by Jock Elliot on
your website questioning you about Dr. Hironori Higuchi's paper (published about 1990), regarding the health benefits derived from participation in sport blowgun target shooting. Dr. Higuchi is a well-respected physician with a specialization in dermatology, and training in geriatrics. He also has done extensive work with sports rehabilitation for quadriplegics and hemiplegics in Nagaoka, Japan.

Jock listed these benefits as:

·    Decrease of stress

·     Better digestion

·     Increased lung capacity
(due in part to better
utilization of normally
“dead air” pockets);

·      Abdominal muscle and organ
strengthening (due to the
super-oxygenation of the
blood.

·     "Massage” of the organs from the use of the diaphragm in deep breathing)

·      Stimulation of the autonomic nervous system

·      Increased focus due to
directed concentration

I wish to clarify the details of the good doctor's thesis.  The benefits are not derived from shooting the blowgun, but more from the increased oxygen levels in the bloodstream, and relaxation of one's system by using a
technique similar to psycho prophylaxis (known in the USA more familiarly as the Lamaze pre-childbirth breathing and relaxation technique). As you are aware, this is also a technique being used by many surgeons when their patients are in a pre-operative condition, allowing them to benefit by reduced stress levels.

In the sport, when properly executed, this technique brings an individual into a calm, relaxed state prior to the actual shooting. The lung power to shoot a blowgun is minimal. It's more in the technique of expulsion, than in emptying one's lungs into the barrel of the blowgun, as most people would believe.

     Pictures of many quadriplegic and hemiplegics as blowgunners are found on the "Japan Sport Fukiya
Association" website . The sport has been popular there for over a dozen years, with well over 600 competitors at their last national competition.
This is perhaps the only sport where male and female, young and old, handicapped and non-handicapped compete on a completely equal basis. The only concession made, is that the target height for a wheelchair bound competitor is lowered from the standard 120 cm to 90 cm....

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