I guess with the whole “bigger and stronger” part of this forum that this is the place to throw this up.
The short video came up on Yahoo news this morning, and I thought it was kinda cool.
https://screen.yahoo.com/women-sumo-warriors-134746818.html?vp=1
I remember an old gym teacher I had in Middle School brought our class into the wrestling room (matted floors and walls) and let us try “sumo”. If I weren’t so worried about making my shoulder worse, I could honestly see myself trying this out now.
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I just cant get it when big fat western fellas do Sumo. I understand them participating in a sport so to speak but their fatness just looks so unhealthy whereas their Japanese counterparts built their size the traditional way eating copious amounts of Chankonabe and look the part and are apparently healthy. Buckets of vegtables, meat, fish, sushi, rice v a supersized westernised diet of shite…
Btw the guys in the park could have washed their cruddy mawashi’s, and one giant pot arsed fella could have put on shorts for fucksake, there were kids present, jeezaz!
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
I just cant get it when big fat western fellas do Sumo. I understand them participating in a sport so to speak but their fatness just looks so unhealthy whereas their Japanese counterparts built their size the traditional way eating copious amounts of Chankonabe and look the part and are apparently healthy. Buckets of vegtables, meat, fish, sushi, rice v a supersized westernised diet of shite…
Btw the guys in the park could have washed their cruddy mawashi’s, and one giant pot arsed fella could have put on shorts for fucksake, there were kids present, jeezaz![/quote]
Because in Japan its a profession and they train like animals all day. I read somewhere that a professional sumo is built like a powerlifter (ok, not a permabulker but a raw lifter) under that fat.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
I guess with the whole “bigger and stronger” part of this forum that this is the place to throw this up.
The short video came up on Yahoo news this morning, and I thought it was kinda cool.
https://screen.yahoo.com/women-sumo-warriors-134746818.html?vp=1
I remember an old gym teacher I had in Middle School brought our class into the wrestling room (matted floors and walls) and let us try “sumo”. If I weren’t so worried about making my shoulder worse, I could honestly see myself trying this out now.
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There is a sub-set of schmoes who would love to watch this, or even be mushed between competitors.
[quote]TheKraken wrote:
Because in Japan its a profession and they train like animals all day. I read somewhere that a professional sumo is built like a powerlifter (ok, not a permabulker but a raw lifter) under that fat.
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Oh’ I get that for sure and I wouldn’t expect a guy to live sumo style esp. when doing it at amateur level but at least if you are going to take on the sumo way then skip the McDonalds… yeh I’m presuming here about fast food, but I’d put money on it they’re hoovering shite like some permabulker with an imaginary all you can eat licence issued by forum guru’s over the internetz (and we’re all well versed here in that bollox lol…)
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
There is a sub-set of schmoes who would love to watch this, or even be mushed between competitors. [/quote]
You had to take it there…
Check out former Yokozuna Chiyonofuji’s lower body development, he did weight train a lot though and was fairly lean compared to most sumo’s.
I actually thought that was photoshopped but this guy, Chiyonofuji (pic below) seems to be fairly solid for a sumo wrestler. I dont think weight training is something the average sumo wrestler focusses on though.
There seems to be that other dude Asashoryu who was freakishly explosive, allegedly benchpressed 200kilos and curled 30 kilo DBs for reps, and he’d pick up 500+ pounders and throw them out (remember these are professionals trained to stay grounded lol)
[quote]BIG-GEORDIE wrote:
Check out former Yokozuna Chiyonofuji’s lower body development, he did weight train a lot though and was fairly lean compared to most sumo’s. [/quote]