The sumo community here’s pretty low-volume / dormant, but things pick up a bit for the Japanese tournaments that happen several times a year. For the next couple weeks I’m going to be posting daily collections of videos about the May tournament that just started in Japan.

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Imagine a pair of US football linebackers crashing against each other. But they can also slug each other in the face with open-palm strikes, do arm-locks, or throw/trip each other, and they’re not wearing any padding just wrestling belts. And there’s a priest urging them on, because they’re really doing all this for the gods of Shinto.

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Check out this intro video and then swing by the sumo community for tournament update videos! Feel free to ask questions.

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