How to become a sumotori?

[Takanobaka 0]

from my boxing experience i would imagine teppo would be great for enpowering your tsupari.

This training technique resembles the "hard sack" boxers use for hardening their crosses and maybe the jabs too (jabs improve better with waist training) ......

i would try to make these excersises mention above just to take a taste of th estrain on those athletes bodies.

(i will find it hard though to do keiko here in Greece.All of our rikishis are out of town...... (Riding an ATV...) )

This ain't gonna sound pretty, but the other thing it also does is create callouses and bone spurs in your hands and wrists so that an open palm still feels like a fist. The first many months of teppo usually lead to great pain and bloody hands until they eventually start healing up, but it does help create calcium deposits in the hands that are as hard as bone and are generally fairly painful....boxers have no need for this aspect of it since their knuckles are already hard, and thus one uses gloves for that.

I suppose that if one were to begin doing teppo on their own, you should probably buy protective gloves for that as well, just so you're able to build up more slowly and make it a less painful process than the Oyakata typically make it.

[aderechelsea 125]

This ain't gonna sound pretty, but the other thing it also does is create callouses and bone spurs in your hands and wrists so that an open palm still feels like a fist. The first many months of teppo usually lead to great pain and bloody hands until they eventually start healing up, but it does help create calcium deposits in the hands that are as hard as bone and are generally fairly painful....boxers have no need for this aspect of it since their knuckles are already hard, and thus one uses gloves for that.

I suppose that if one were to begin doing teppo on their own, you should probably buy protective gloves for that as well, just so you're able to build up more slowly and make it a less painful process than the Oyakata typically make it.

i have experienced callouses under my feet from my capoeira training when i first started but after two months or so i developed a thick layer of skin on both of my feet.i have no problem whatsoever now.

I suspect that the same goes for sumo rikishis........

i would add that this procedure is nessesary to harden your body both physicaly and mentally.

in boxing we have the protection of the gloves but the wrists suffer great strain and need to harden very much during training to avoid injuries........

.......and when i said that i will try to train like that i didn't mean just teppo but the course it was mention early on this thread.I want to see if a guy with athletic shape can keep up with it...... (Riding an ATV...)

[Guest Mojo]

Could some one please tell me exactly what Teppo is and what it consists of?? Please (Riding an ATV...)

Edited March 9, 2004 by Mojo

[aderechelsea 125]

Teppo is what Takanohana is performing in picture 9. He hits and pushes the pole with open hands from a slightly crouching position.

i hope my description is right, or else please correct me.....

thanks to Manekineko for posting this picture in another thread and i hope she didn't mind me using it.......... (Riding an ATV...)

[Guest Mojo]

Thank you aderechelsea for your reply, It was nice to see pictures (Riding an ATV...) even if they are not yours (Riding an ATV...)

Also, why did you change your picture to that super duper sumo?

[aderechelsea 125]

Thank you aderechelsea for your reply, It was nice to see pictures (Riding an ATV...) even if they are not yours (Riding an ATV...)

Also, why did you change your picture to that super duper sumo?

it is a funny cartoon and i recently discovered it on TV.There was many years since i enjoyed a cartoon that much.......... (Riding an ATV...)

He also looks like he is from Hawaii like Musashimaru (who was my previous avatar).......

[Guest Mojo]

I used to watch it, it was funny :-) it's a shame it's not on in the UK any more I could do with watching some thing funny and sumo related :-) it would help me forget my problems...

[Naganoyama 6,024]

I used to watch it, it was funny (In a state of confusion...) it's a shame it's not on in the UK any more I could do with watching some thing funny and sumo related (In a state of confusion...) it would help me forget my problems...

It is no longer shown because it has the word Sumo in the title and there is no Sumo on UK TV these days.

(Nodding yes...)

[aderechelsea 125]

well you should all come to Greece to watch it together............... (Nodding yes...)

[Guest Mojo]

aderechelsea, is it shown in Greek over there or in English?

Also are you Greek? because you seem to like English football team? :-P

[Naganoyama 6,024]

well you should all come to Greece to watch it together............... :-P

If I am in Greece I will look you up!

(One thing I have never done in my life is watch sumo with another fan!)

[aderechelsea 125]

well you should all come to Greece to watch it together............... :-P

If I am in Greece I will look you up!

(One thing I have never done in my life is watch sumo with another fan!)

glad to have you in my home.......... (Sign of approval)

i have never hanged out with a sumo fan in my life too ( i have never met one actually.... (Laughing...) ..............do you guys exist or are you fictional and live only in my imagination? (Alien stuff...) )

[aderechelsea 125]

aderechelsea, is it shown in Greek over there or in English?

Also are you Greek? because you seem to like English football team? :-P

(Alien stuff...)

it is in English with Greek subtitles.........

and i am definately Greek........ :-)

i just happened to fall in love with Chelsea football team when i was 11 years old and used to watch their games on greek TV.

I follow them since then and i will come to London to watch them for my first time on April 10th.

My favourite team in Greece is Panathinaikos FC.

(Laughing...)