Sumo Walking Social Aid ‘Thin Rope’ – Taipei Times

Experts, Sumo for the first time in 20 years after Japan is preparing to organize events while trying to protect the old traditions, “a tense rope” walks, he says.

Sports will organize exhibition tournaments in London in October and in Paris in June next year; This will be the first time the Sumo Union of Japan in 2005 has been abroad for the first time since Las Vegas.

Sports such as football, baseball and football play domestic games abroad in order to gain new fans in developing markets.

Sumo Walking Social Aid ‘Thin Rope’ – Taipei Times

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Former amateur Sumo wrestler John Gunning, who commented on Sports on Japanese television, says that hundreds of years of history and traditions make him unique.

Gunning told reporters, “This is always a subtlety.” “If you start turning Sumo into a pure sport, you will start to lose many things that make it attractive or the reason for existence in the first place.”

“There is always a push and drawing that Sumo wants to maintain traditions, but also continue to adapt and adapt to the sports and work environment of the 21st century,” he added.

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Hakkaku, the President of the Japanese Sumo Association with the same name, said that “it is important to show our sport to the world” and said that “our traditional culture is recognized”.

European organizers seem to be willing to make overseas activities into a regular event.

David Rothschild, the organizer and chief producer of Paris Event Organizer AEG, said, “The idea would be Sumo to go to a country or another country once a year,” he said.

Gunning said that the interest in Sumo except Japan in the last six to seven years has increased, especially during the worldwide Kovid-19 quarantines, the interest of people who are connected to this sport from a remote interest in SUMO sport, he said.

In the last few years, Sumo chiefs have endeavored to reach foreign Sumo fans, and in 2022, Sumo Prime Time, which has 71,000 subscribers in 2022, opened the Youtube channel.

In the stadiums in Japan, more language assistance is provided to visitors.

Gunning said that regular tournament tickets in Japan are “like gold dust”, and that most of them are caught by tourists visiting the country.

Sanctuary, a Sumo -themed drama series, was released in Netflix in 2023.

Gunning said that the success of trips to London and Paris is “almost automatically guaranteed”.

He said that the events were the result of the public demand from the audience abroad and that there is no “cash grabbing”.

The Japan Sumo Association organized its first overseas Sumo exhibition in 1965 in the Soviet Union and has visited a wide range of countries since then.

The five -day tournament held in Royal Albert Hall in London will be the second event of the association here.

The two -day Paris Tournament will be the third of the city (the first since 1995) and will take place in the field that hosts gymnastics and basketball at last year’s Olympics.

Sumo organizes six 15 days of regular Honbasho tournaments every year in Japan; Three in Tokyo and one in Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka.

Wrestlers participate in Japan -wide exhibition tours when they do not perform in competitions, training, resting or ceremonies.

These domestic tours can take almost a month at a time, and Sumo reporter Shoko Sato said that some will probably be scrapped to make room for other overseas trips.

“Exhibitions abroad take place only twice a year, so I do not think that if no one in Japan does not have an exhibition in the country, I do not think it will be dissatisfied,” Sato said.

Sato discussed Sumo activities in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Mongolia and said that the atmosphere in exhibitions abroad was “completely different”.

He said, “It looks like a little fun.” “This is not a serious competition, but rather to introduce the snake to people in a fun way.”