Imagine stepping into the MMA ring with a former sumo wrestling legend who towers over you by a good foot and weighs nearly ...
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Agence France-Presse on MSNWomen step into the ring at west African wrestling tournamentLegs taut, backs bent at the waist, the wrestlers slowly stretched out their arms towards each other, searching for a grip ...
An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.
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INTO on MSNWrestling, religion, and rule-breaking collide in SUMOJust like the Japanese sport it's inspired by, the new off-Broadway play is part ritual, part athletic spectacle.
This month's ECOWAS wrestling tournament, however, marked the first time that the annual showdown featured a women's division. Legs taut, backs bent at the waist, the wrestlers slowly stretched out ...
The stage is transformed into a ring. The actors are barely clothed in the traditional costume. And the thundering action is right in your face in the thrilling new play “Sumo.” Senior Editor ...
The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.
We investigate how rikishi perceive the sumo ring, a circle 4.55 meters across. Along the way we highlight the work that goes into constructing it and how rikishi grip the clay with their toes.
The Royal Albert Hall hosted sumo wrestling in 1991 ... nicknamed the 'Dump Truck'. Clay for the ring was sourced from a quarry near Heathrow, while backstage toilets had to be stress tested ...
Aonishiki, who is 182cm in height and weighs a relatively modest 136kg, discovered sumo as a boy, practicing judo and ...
In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy based on competitive ... Peña's staging, mostly within a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of intense ...
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