| FACTS ABOUT SUMO WRESTLERS |
Posted by:
Moksha Gupta
Source: MOKSHA
19/11/2008 |
No sooner we hear the word ' SUMO ' all of us start giggling as we
imagine a very fat but cute Japanese man with just a small piece of
cloth around his waist. Also sometimes most of us call an obese
individual Sumo in fun.However we are absolutely incorrect if we use
the word SUMO for a fat man not because it is bad manners to tease
someone but because the word SUMO means a Japanese form of wrestling .
In other words Sumo is not a person it is a from of wrestling.
The minimum 136 kgs fat man who participate in Sumo is known as
RIKISHI. Thus RIKISHI is a Sumo Wrestler.A Rikishi is called YOKOZUNA
when he becomes a grand champion of Sumo .In Sumo a wrestler's weight,
size & strength are more important than the speed & suddenness
of attack by the wrestler. The Sumo wrestling ring is known as DHOYO
which is a 15 feet circle.A Sumo wrestler looses if he is forced out of
the wrestling ring or any part of the Sumo wrestler except his soles of
his feet touches the ground.YOBIDASHI is the announcer in Sumo ,he
calls the Sumo wrestlers into the ring prior to the actual
wrestling.The referee in the Sumo is known as GYOJI .Gyoji usually
enters the Sumo world as a teenager & remain as a employee of Sumo
Association until he retires at the age of 65. The colored belt worn by
the Sumo wrestler is known as MAWASHI .Upper ranked professional
wrestlers wear KESHO-MAWASHI during the wrestling ring entry
ceremony.Kesho-Mawashi is a long embroidered cloth .
Sumo wrestler's life expectancy is about 55, 20 years short of the
average for Japanese men in general. Prospective sumo wrestlers are
raised from the time they are 14 years old .They are fed on a special
high-protein soup that contains meat or fish, tofu, vegetables,
noodles, rice & sugar. A midday snack might be 100 sushi rolls.
Some have prided themselves on being prodigious beer drinkers. What
they eat isn't too different from a traditional Japanese diet. They
just eat huge quantities but the true secret behind every 400-pound
sumo wrestler is Napping. Napping is a critical part of the training
regimen. To gain weight, they eat late in the day and sleep as much as
possible after each meal.
Sumo wrestlers have a lot of
subcutaneous fat but not arterial or deep-body fat, which is the most
dangerous kind but if they don't lose weight when they retire (about
the age of 30, usually), fat distribution changes and they can develop
heart problems, diabetes, and all the ailments that plague obese people
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