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Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA
But, to be sure, it has great physical impact too
Isn't it more like WWE than Greco Roman Wrestling though?
A sumo wrestler is like a defensive lineman in gridiron football, combined with a judo competitor. Sumotori can shove their opponent down or out, they can hit with an open hand, they can do BJJ-style "no gi" throws, or grab the belt for leverage and/or do judo-style trips and throws. Yeah they're fat but beneath that they are like half muscle. Most matches are over in under 30 seconds, many under 10.
For more info see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8wS_t5Lv8
For English-commented matches see: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/sumo/
It's all real if thats what you're asking
oooh... for some reason when they said "WWE" my sleep-deprived brain read "MMA" lel.
Dude, watch some high level matches, they collide like freight trains, punch each other in the face five times and someone inevitably ends up making a 300 pound mass of muscle and fat their bitch.
I've been writing brief (a few sentences) breakdowns of many of the daily matches over in the sumo sub. Today (day 9) had some good stuff to check out.
The live videos go down not too long after streaming but this one's up for now, and I recommend checking out this match. If it's gone when you get to it the highlights will be up tomorrow.
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I feel like sumo is the Imperial sport and baseball is the National sport
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That's why we're invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.
Wasn’t Fidel a big baseball player/fan?
Its a joke because there's a high population of Cubans in the MLB.
Kids, play nice, you can share a national sport, just like everybody else does with footie.
America: No.
So should rugby be called handegg, too?
manly handegg
There are a lot of very valid criticisms of American football. I love it, sometimes in spite of myself, but I won’t fault anyone who thinks it’s an overly-managed made-for-TV snoozefest with no rhythm whatsoever. For better or worse, though, those helmets and pads do not make it any less of a violent “manly” sport. Far from it: they are the way Americans make ourselves feel better about watching a literal bloodsport with a ball.
The way the game moves and the ruleset reward explosive impacts, and the unlimited substitutions mean players are selected and trained to optimize delivering and enduring that violence instead of, say, actually running for 80 minutes. The result is a dozen hits a game that would make a “biggest hits of the season” compilation video for rugby or Aussie rules. Also chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Hand egg without brain shell.
Vs cushioned hand egg?
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Most of the points are scored by kickers these days 😠
still egg
AckSHully an egg has a pointed end and a rounded end. American footballs are prolate spheroids.
I had prolate spheroids once. I spent two weeks in the hospital.
prolate spheroid sounds like a good insult
Or a band name
That's what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.
are you saying that japan was a US colony in 19th century?
Pretty much was after WWII.
Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.
There's a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I'll go by and bother them. "You're playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?" They're always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.
ask if they play soccer
I mean, that is where the word came from originally.
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We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there's only 3 months a year to play it.
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That’s fine. The more the merrier.
Most sports in Japanese are referred to with borrow words.
フットボール - futtoboru
サッカー - Sakka
バスケットボール - Basukettoboru
But baseball? You think that's besuboru? Hell nah, that's mother fuckin yakyu (野球)
To me, that's the greatest sign there is of how integrated into the culture the sport is.
Why did you use THAT flag?
Lol, this isn't my creation and I wondered the same thing. I assumed that maybe this was what the flag looked like in 1872, but looking it up now - nope! It says this was the war flag.
All I know about japanese baseball is the number 34-2
Yeah that's something we like about Japan. Our countries keep getting into things the other introduces us to.
I would like to see what Japan could pull off playing Banana Ball.
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