Last night before teaching my taiko class, Elaine showed me the two-person method of cranking shime. We tightened two shime and now I know how real taiko players feel since the die-hard groups crank all their shime right before they play them. It's a good warm-up and there's nothing like feeling the sting of rope-burn on your hands.
Here is how the professional group Shidara tightens shime. We didn't look quite like this, but you get the picture:
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