As you all know, sumo is a traditional japanese sport. It basically consists in two extremely “big” guys wrestling. It was really impressive to see so many people watching this (a full big arena) with a lot of media coverage around the sumo players, which are very high located in the hierarchical japanese society.
The tournament lasts for two weeks, and everyday everybody competes once. It is a kind of league, with different categories. We arrived at 14.00 and left at 18.00, and we saw around 4 divisions… and they had been competing since early in the morning!
Each combat is quite short. Since they actually start fighting (hugging one to each other), until the combat ends normally takes less than 1 minute. Typically, less than 30 seconds.
More about sumo in future posts.
