Ayakawa High School, the first day of school, club recruitment day.
On the lawn playground, only half an hour.
Two rows of juxtaposed tents have been erected, forming a road from front to back, all the way to the gate of the club building.
The students are incredibly passionate about their clubs.
In each tent there were people holding small signs and loudly promoting the event, and there were also students from Wuyangyang who were interested in it, making it very lively.
Due to the large number of classes, the relationship between some club partners may be closer than that of classmates.
"The Athletics Department welcomes newcomers!"
"The swimming club is recruiting new members! Give us swimsuits!"
"Qingyin Club welcomes new members, and kawaii girls are welcome to join!"
"The Ministry of Service welcomes..."
One after another shouts attracted Jiang Xu's attention.
However, after observing for a while, Jiang Xu sensitively discovered that there were actually very few people who directly joined these clubs in the previous period. Most of the people who confirmed joining actually returned from the rear.
There was also a hint of reluctance on their faces, and looking at the expressions of the seniors in the club, they seemed not to be surprised by this.
Jiang Xu thought for a while and continued walking towards the back.
It's just that he didn't push back along with the crowd. He still took his time to get to know each tent before walking back.
The crowd density is getting bigger and bigger, as if more than half of the whole school is crowding in, with clear goals to rush to certain clubs in the back.
Jiang Xu became more and more curious about what the following key societies were.
But what is certain is that the Kendo Club must be one of them, because I haven’t seen it before.
As he went further, he already had some guesses about what the most popular key societies were.
"Kendo, football, Go, table tennis, tennis, baseball, mahjong,...good guys, they are all selected competitive sports clubs, no wonder they are so popular."
Jiang Xu showed an expression that was just as I expected, "No wonder, you have to come here to participate in the selection first. If you fail, you will retreat to the next best club."
Joining a club is the starting point for most people who want to become competitive athletes.
Many students who were able to join these clubs in high school also joined the same clubs in junior high school and took basic exercises.
After entering high school, many students even start working hard with the goal of a career in this project.
If you can win awards in some high school competitions, it will make your future career path much smoother.
And some schools that often dominate a certain event have an extremely luxurious coaching lineup.
Students who are truly interested in careers must give priority to applying to those schools.
It's no wonder that Ayakawa couldn't attract real competitive talents, so he simply broke the pot and found foreign aid directly from abroad.
Jiang Xu's priority was naturally the Kendo Club and the Mahjong Club.
I just glanced at the two clubs. The front desk of the kendo club on the left was a young lady who had changed into the training uniform of the kendo club, had a single ponytail, and a training bamboo sword on her waist. She looked very sassy.
It's just that compared to the bustling crowds of many other clubs, the front door of the Kendo Club seems a bit deserted.
The Mahjong Club on the right is relatively lively, but there are two ordinary male characters at the front desk, handing out test papers filled with test questions to the new students who want to join the club.
Do you need to take a test first to play mahjong?
Jiang Xu thought for half a second and decisively turned to the left.
"If you want to join the Kendo Club, it may take more than two weeks to complete our entrance examination. Please be prepared before signing up."
Before Jiang Xu could get close, the female member of Shan Mawei Kendo Club spoke out.
When she raised her head and glanced at Jiang Xu's face, she was slightly startled, as if she felt that her words were a bit repulsive, and added another sentence.
"Kendo is a sport that requires perseverance and courage. The goal of our Ayakawa Kendo Club is to be the champion of the National Kendo Competition. Therefore, our requirements for recruiting new members may be a little higher."
"Well, my name is Jiang Xu. I should be considered an official member of the Kendo Club."
Jiang Xu smiled politely.
"Jiang Xu? You are Jiang Xu!"
The female member was surprised. When she came out, the minister specifically told her the name of Xia Guo.
"Wait a moment, I will take you to see the minister. Chie-chan, come and be the front desk for me, and I will go find the minister."
"Hey, Senior Hayaya, go ahead, I'll take care of everything here."
In the tent behind the Kendo Club, a girl with a round head and healthy growth trotted out and looked curiously at Jiang Xu, the new member who suddenly joined the Kendo Club.
"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Emi Hayaya, a third-year student. Her name is Chie Kobayashi, a second-year student. Although I don't know why you can join the club directly, you must have achieved results in junior high school, but these results will be improved when you enter high school. After that, everything will be cleared. During club activities, first-year students like you need to call us seniors."
Hayaya Emi's eyes swept over Jiang Xu's handsome face and the slightly dazzling grace he showed in his summer clothes, and she simply ignored the matter of setting good rules for the newcomers in advance.
If this kind of rare resource is not quickly brought into the community, why should it be left outside? What a joke.
When she heard someone calling her senior, Chie Kobayashi straightened her chest subconsciously and stood up a little straighter.
She cried in her heart. She finally made it to the second grade. She was no longer the lowest status in the club. Students who were still on trial training were not counted as members of the club.
"Okay, two seniors."
Jiang Xu smiled slightly and did not explain that he was in the third grade.
He knew his purpose very well, he just wanted to find a place to learn swordsmanship and get started with the skills.
The following matters, whether it is the endorsement advertisement of Sifang Bank or the national kendo competition, can be solved with winning points.
In other words, you have to develop it first, and then when it develops, you can do whatever you want.
Therefore, joining the company as a newcomer is exactly what he wants.
Let's talk to the kendo club leader when we meet him later.
Let's just say that I have just come into contact with Sakurajima Kendo and I am not familiar with the rules yet. It is better to go through a period of basic training like a new club member first.
Seeing this handsome freshman being so successful, Emi Hayaya nodded with satisfaction.
She is most afraid of the kind of middle school boy who thinks that he has some honors in junior high school and thinks that he will be invincible in high school.
You know, Ayakawa is also a first-class prestigious school, and the so-called weakness is only compared to those old schools that can recruit monster newcomers every year.
A new student, no matter how strong he is, can't make any waves.
What's more, kendo is a competitive sport that is closely related to physical fitness.
In high school, the physical bonus brought by an extra year of physical growth is extremely considerable.
The same is true for other sports competitions.
