What do you know about Sumos??

What do you know about Sumos??

Sumo - a traditional Japanese sport. It's a whole culture, paradoxically combines elements of noble contests, shows, the temple celebration, sports, samurai spirit and the circus business. Each year the Association conducts at Tokyo sumo-day demonstration tournament devoted to the temple Yasukui, where spectators can enjoy the spectacle, and fighters - to demonstrate their abilities.

Sumo wrestlers go to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during the ceremony to the annual sumo tournament in Tokyo.

Grand Champion Sumo 'Yokozuna' Hakuho keeps son sumo wrestler Kotomitsuki on behalf Aiki.

In the top two divisions of fighters have a special belt kese-mawashi, which is used only for rituals

In sumo is forbidden to beat, except as an open palm, as well as the eyes and in the genital area. Not grabbing the hair, ears, fingers, covering the genitalia of the mawashi. They should not be asphyxiating seizures. Everything else is allowed, so in the arsenal of fighters included slaps, shoves, grabs for any authorized body parts and, especially, belts and rolls, various steps and sweeps.

Sumoists Miyabiyama bear a child before the ceremonial cup "Honozumo" at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

The site for sumo wrestling is a square platform in 34 - 60 cm in height, called the coat. The fight takes place in a circle with a diameter of 4.55 meters, the boundaries of which are laid special baskets of rice straw.

Ground coat is made of rammed clay and covered with a thin top layer of sand. The sand, which covers a clay coat, symbolizing purity. Log in Doha for women, according to ancient tradition, has always strictly forbidden.

Georgian sumoists Gagamaru signs autographs.

Judge (gedzi), among other duties, serves as a Shinto priest.

Mongolian sumo wrestler Yokozuna Asashoru (center) performs ceremonial entrance to the ring before a show at the tournament Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.The Association has devoted a one-day sumo tournament sumo Yasukuni Shrine, where hundreds of spectators are free to enjoy the spectacle.

Estonian sumoists Barut forward to the tournament at the Yasukuni Shrine. Last month, Barut (real name - Qaeda Huvelson) was constructed in the second highest rank of Ozeki, or champion, after a series of successful victories in recent tournaments.

In professional sumo no weight classes, so one of the determining factors is the mass of the fighter. Almost all athletes, except for beginners, weigh under 100 kg or more, and for the higher weight divisions above 120 kg of de facto mandatory - otherwise we can not hope to succeed.

In professional sumo no weight classes, so one of the determining factors is the mass of the fighter. Almost all athletes, except for beginners, weigh under 100 kg or more, and for the higher weight divisions above 120 kg of de facto mandatory - otherwise we can not hope to succeed.