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If you see this traditional sport for the first time on TV, I think you can't understand at all what those two naked fat men are doing. They could look being huging, playing wiht or fighting. Anyway you can see those wrestlers scatter lots of salt to the sumo ring to purify the ring and I supporse to encourage themselves. I think it comes from the idea of Shinto. We have words like proverbs, "Sumo wrestlers, if they're not wrestlers, are just obese men". How interesting words they are. I think they just insult them and also though I don't know if you know this or not, their hair are very storong to tie and make a topknot. If they retired, what do you think they can do next? Some of them become stable masters, some become other sports fighters and some become just obese men. But thry're very proud of their job and their life style and also it's said that sumo wrestlers are the most strong kind of people in the world.
Have you ever seen women's sumo wrestlers? If you meet them, you won't be able to say anything because they are too big and look very strong, even though their boobs are uncovered and some of them look very good. To my surprise, when I see a sumo match for real, the tickets are incredibly pricy. Too much!! Anyway my grand-mother loved sumo and she always watch sumo matches on TV all the day. it was quite boring for me but now i'm proud of this sport as a national sport. When you come to Japan, shall we have a sumo match? Here is the explantion about Sumo from a book. Sumo is a Japanese kind of wrestling and Japan's national sport. It originated in ancient times as religious performances to the Shinto gods. Nowadays, still many rituals are followed. The basic rules of sumo are simple: The wrestler who either first touches the floor with something else than his sole or leaves the ring before his opponent, loses. The fights themselves usually last only a few seconds and in rare cases up to one minute or more. Six tournaments are held every year. Each one lasts 15 days. Three of the tournaments are held in Tokyo, and one each in Fukuoka, Osaka and Nagoya. At the top of the sumo wrestlers' hierarchy stands the yokozuna. At the moment, there is only one yokozuna, Asashoryu from Mongolia. Once a wrestler reached the rank of yokozuna, he cannot lose it anymore. However, he is expected to retire as soon as his results are starting to worsen. Most elite wrestlers are highly trained athletes and between about 20 to 35 years old. Besides working out, the wrestlers are eating large amounts of food and go to bed right after eating in order to gain mass. The wrestlers are living in special sumo stables where the rules are very strict, especially for beginners. |