My Close Encounter With Sumo Wrestling

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My Close Encounter With Sumo Wrestling

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Sumo - quivering mounds of flesh set into sudden motion that is at once jarring and engaging. It’s the sport of gods, literally. However, it took me some time to appreciate sumo. Long before I made my way over to Japan, my image of sumo was not a very flattering one. To me sumo was a match where two nigh-immobile mountains of flab come together with all the speed of erosion to push one or the other slowly out of the small ring they were in. In short, fat guys in diapers having a shoving match...not exactly my cup of tea. Boy was I wrong!

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