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Moving You

A YAMAHA ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
1 SEASON, 17 EPISODES

2023 | TV-G |

SEASON 1

Moving You Volume 1: Working to Change Water and Lives in Africa

About 200 km north from Senegal's capital of Dakar, on the outskirts of the town of St. Louis near the Mauritanian border, there is a small village of around 300 people. In this village where all the daily work relies on a single river nearby, a simple, compact “Yamaha Clean Water System" using natural filtration methods was completed in 2012. The system's distinctive sky-blue equipment and sanitary water drawing station were installed in the middle of the village. The villagers formed a committee to self-manage the water supply in an orderly way as a community, and have been able to secure a daily supply of fresh, potable water as a result.

11 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 07/24/12

Moving You Volume 2: Fifty-Two Miles of Adventure at Sea

The "Junior Yacht School Hayama" is a sailing school for children in the junior age group run by the Public-interest Yamaha Motor Foundation for Sports (YMFS). In addition to practicing sailing in the waters off the town of Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, the children also spend their summer vacation doing various activities outdoors, heading to the waters, fields and hills in the surrounding area for treks in the highlands, rafting and canoeing. With these kinds of unique activities, they experience the wonder, grandeur and fragility of nature, but also how danger and fear play a part in every one of these. From this, they learn self-reliance and self-control, develop their cooperation and leadership skills and stimulate their imaginations as they mature in body and soul through adolescence.

13 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 10/18/12

Moving You Volume 3: The Skill and Pride of a Mechanic

The "Yamaha World Technician Grand Prix" is the global contest held to recognize the best of these YTA-certified mechanics. For its 5th holding in 2012, the contest brought together 28 of the best mechanics from 20 countries that qualified by winning national and regional competitions to compete against each other through their knowledge, technical skills and customer service skills for the title of "World's No. 1 Yamaha Mechanic." When the contest was over, the champions were Mr. Thorsten Brand of Germany in the Sport Model Class and Mr. Le Truong Qui Tu of Vietnam in the Commuter/Business Model Class.

14 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 12/27/12

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Moving You Volume 4: Spreading The Word About the "Mentality and Skills" of Safety

The police officers you will see diligently applying themselves to riding training in this movie are from Sao Paulo's Police Station No. 2. Although they are expert motorcycle riders whose usual assignments include escorting dignitaries, patrolling the streets of the city and providing security at events, their job as protectors of the peace is still one that requires regular training. Serving as the riding trainer for these professionals is veteran Yamaha Riding Academy (YRA) instructor Hidenobu Toh.

15 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 06/28/13

Moving You Volume 5: The Engine Control Engineer Linking Rossi with his YZR-M1

MotoGP is the pinnacle of world championship motorcycle road racing. It is where the star riders of the world compete all-out for victory and where the engineers pour all of their intellect into perfecting a single machine. Here we introduce the engineer who analyzes the enormous amounts of machine data and weaves it like silk into the engine's control systems to allow Valentino Rossi to put his legendary riding ability to work in its entirety.

14 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 10/26/13

Moving You Volume 6: Supporting Lives and Livelihoods of Peoples of the Far North

In the harsh natural environment of Russia's northern regions, the peoples here continue to follow their traditional nomadic lifestyle of raising and herding reindeer. For these peoples, snowmobiles are necessities of life, and a recently opened Yamaha dealership in a city north of the Arctic Circle is now there to supply them. This is the story of a Yamaha man who came to the land of the northern peoples, with a respect for their native lifestyle and a desire to learn their ways and customs as he supplies the Yamaha products and service they want and need.

11 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 01/31/14

Moving You Volume 7: Made in Mauritania

At a recently completed boatbuilding factory in a port city in northwestern Mauritania, production has started on a long-awaited new type of fishing boat that carries the hopes of people here for the development of a prosperous fishing industry. Instructing the factory's employees in the construction methods and expertise needed to build these new boats is a veteran engineer from Japan with the spirit of a true craftsman. At times, he is strict and demanding, but at other times, he shows embracing warmth, communicating the intricacies of the boatbuilding process and sharing the great excitement and satisfaction when the job is done.

27 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 05/28/14

Moving You Volume 8:"A Desert Christmas"

The Glamis Dunes are located in the southeastern-most corner of the state of California in the United States and extend into the state of Arizona and on into Mexico. The beautiful dunes here are a virtual paradise for off-road motorcycle and ATV riders, and on the weekends and holidays they become the playground for crowds of off-road enthusiasts and their families and friends. It is a scene of unrestrained recreation, with dynamic riding under clear blue skies in the daytime and relaxing dinners around a campfire at night. In these gatherings, you can sense the same type of American spirit of adventure, fun and close-knit bonds with family and friends that drove the pioneering of the American West over a century ago.

10 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 09/10/14

Moving You Volume 9: Northern Mongolia's Durable Duo

There are 99 national parks spread across Mongolia. Protecting the natural beauty and wildlife of these parks from poachers and illegal campers are some 400 rangers at work nationwide. Often living in the harsh environments of these wildlands, these rangers patrol the vast stretches of wilderness using small utility motorcycles as their means of transportation. To check on the Yamaha AG200s procured for the rangers by the Mongol Ecology Center non-governmental organization, a member of Yamaha’s International Cooperation Group visits Lake Hovsgol for the first time in a year.

14 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 10/31/16

Moving You Volume 10: Skill India - Schools for India's Dreamers

Yamaha Training Schools (YTS) are open to young people in India who otherwise wouldn’t have the means or opportunity to study or receive vocational training, and they provide training and instruction for them to become certified motorcycle technicians. These schools are being opened throughout India and young people, each with their own personal dreams and goals, make the daily trip to learn each day. We visited a young man in his late teens learning the skills of a mechanic at the YTS in the southeastern city of Chennai. He studies with fervor and purpose; he wants to work as a professional mechanic so that he can help send his younger brother to school, and also buy a house so his parents can live at ease.

12 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 04/16/17

Moving You Volume 11: Make the Wind Your Ally

As the cold of winter approaches the seaside town of Hayama in Kanagawa Prefecture, six sailors and their instructor are about the only ones at this marina that is typically empty on weekdays. Fueled by a burning ambition, they are the members of YAMAHA Sailing Team ‘Revs,’ and they compete in internationally-certified 470 Class sailing dinghies. As they slice through the waves with the wind in their sails, the team has its eyes focused on a single goal—2020.

14 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 12/27/17

Moving You Volume 12: Quenching Thirst, Hand-In-Hand

The Senegal River flows from headwaters in the Guinea Highlands and at each of ten villages scattered around the river’s watershed in northern Senegal, work is underway for installing new Yamaha Clean Water Supply Systems. Permanent access to the clean water the systems will provide means healthier, happier lives for everyone. If the water changes, lives will change. The water station is a gathering place for the villagers and is lively again today with laughter and conversation.

14 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 06/22/18

Moving You Volume 13: Challenge, Ascend, Overcome. Youthful Passion to the World.

Inside Yamaha’s R&D departments there is a climate that encourages spontaneous, independent research. There, efforts are being made to expand engineers’ horizons so that they can facilitate innovation with Yamaha style. This is the story of how one amateur trials-riding engineer got his colleagues involved in his passion, and went on to form a team that took on the challenge to be the best in the world.

14 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 09/28/18

Moving You Volume 14: Hands Like His Father - Inheriting SKills and Spirit

At the biennial Yamaha World Technician Grand Prix, there was still a youthful look to the motorcycle mechanic representing Taiwan. This story is about a father and son who strove to be the best in the world at their profession, the respect and gratitude held by the young man for his father, and of their passion and pride as motorcycle mechanics.

12 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 12/25/18

Moving You Volume 15: Sharing Dreams

Children’s dreams know no bounds. Once they find something they can’t take their minds or eyes off of, somewhere they want to go or what they want to be, that genuine aspiration becomes what drives them as they grow and mature under the watchful and caring eyes of their parents. Zane Burchell has his eyes fixed on one thing—going to the AMA in the United States to compete with some of the best dirt track racers in the world. And one man from Yamaha Motor is the one working this field of dreams, nurturing the seeds of Yamaha Blue and helping them grow on dirt bike tracks across Australia.

13 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 09/30/19

Moving You Volume 16: There For That First Ride

We want the first encounter with motorcycles to bring the happiest of smiles, and we want the anticipation, tension and sense of accomplishment shared by children and their parents/guardians in that experience to be one they will always cherish. Under a clear blue sky, the children face the first motorcycle they will ever ride. The Yamaha instructor gives the more nervous-looking ones bright words of encouragement, and when they later happily shout, “I did it!” she flashes a big smile and raises her hand for a high five. At each Parent-Child Motorcycle Class, you can hear her energetic voice reaching the ears of children ready for their first ride.

11 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 01/15/20

Moving You Volume 17: Donating To An African Dream

Yamaha Motor made its first steps into Africa with its business in the 1960s. Spearheading the company’s efforts on the continent is the Overseas Market Development Operations (OMDO) Business Unit. The men and women in OMDO have long been heading out into the field themselves, discovering various societal issues and working to devise solutions for them. One program in motion today is to donate 10,000 soccer balls to children in countries across Africa over a decade-long period, and the next batch of shiny new balls were recently delivered to a sports club in Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa.

11 MINUTES // FIRST AIRED DATE 01/12/23