Scotland have been training with chunks soaked in shampoo ahead of Sunday’s World Cup opener.
This weekend is being prepared to get slippery countries in Yokohama by gregor Townsend’s staff, using a thunderstorm prediction.
Assistant trainer Mike Blair believes the tactics could help the staff rising temperatures but also take care of the weather, which have reached 33 degrees at their Nagasaki training base.
“We had the pulp and pulp out over the ball if we were back in Edinburgh,” said Blair.
“Since arriving here to Nagasaki it has mainly just been water because the sweat is much more of an issue.
“The sweat is difficult to take care of. The conditions here in Nagasaki have been tough with all the heat.
“Yesterday it said that there was a 100 per cent chance of rain [on Sunday] and now it states a 50 to 60 per cent chance, so it wasn’t a 100 per cent chance that the day before!
“So there will be a drop in temperature but difficult conditions to perform in.
“It’s good they’ve been training from the warmth here, so they will be able to adapt to this too.”
Scotland have dropped six of their last seven Tests against Ireland, along with their opponents could be favoured by also a downpour on Sunday, but Blair insists that they have a strategy to handle the No side in the world.
“In every match we go in using various strategies depending on who we are playing and what the conditions are,” he further added.
“We’ve got a lot of personnel within our group who are extremely great in [wet] states like that too.
“We are called a group that want to perform a whole great deal of soccer and move the ball quickly, and people feel quite comfortable doing this.
“But we also feel we have got guys in the group who are capable of communicating different conditions as required.”
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