If you have never watched sumo…look it up on you tube.It’s amazing.These big guys are strong and sumo wrestling is brutal.My whole family is into it and we’re counting down until the May basho.
This guy – Hakuho – he is badass..But there is also a guy called Tochinoshin who literally picks up the other wrestlers and carries them out of the ring.Imagine the strength it takes to carry a 450lb bull out of a ring while he’s fighting you with all of his strength.
Hakuho Sho had his official retirement ceremony recently though he retired more than a year ago (2021). Hakuho is one of the top if not THE top sumo wrestler of all time with an impressive record over the course of his career. Here, Hakuho is throwing salt at Yasukuni Shrine several years ago before a [yokozuna match](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of9A2N_RKbs) with Kakuryu as part of [honozumo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okO0yvm3qkQ) which is a ceremonial match done at temples and shrines which is not part of the official tournament schedule
Salt Bae
This is really cool! I’ve only recently gotten into sumo though I know pretty much nothing lol
The rikishi who essentially got me into Sumo. GOAT is a term that gets thrown around a lot but when you watched Hakuho in tournaments it was clear more often than not how much distance there was between him and others in terms of skill and determination.
What is purifying salt exactly? I’ve heard people make jokes about using table salt to ward off evil spirits like it *obviously* wouldn’t work. Is the purifying salt different from normal salt?
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If you have never watched sumo…look it up on you tube.It’s amazing.These big guys are strong and sumo wrestling is brutal.My whole family is into it and we’re counting down until the May basho.
This guy – Hakuho – he is badass..But there is also a guy called Tochinoshin who literally picks up the other wrestlers and carries them out of the ring.Imagine the strength it takes to carry a 450lb bull out of a ring while he’s fighting you with all of his strength.
Hakuho Sho had his official retirement ceremony recently though he retired more than a year ago (2021). Hakuho is one of the top if not THE top sumo wrestler of all time with an impressive record over the course of his career. Here, Hakuho is throwing salt at Yasukuni Shrine several years ago before a [yokozuna match](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of9A2N_RKbs) with Kakuryu as part of [honozumo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okO0yvm3qkQ) which is a ceremonial match done at temples and shrines which is not part of the official tournament schedule
Salt Bae
This is really cool! I’ve only recently gotten into sumo though I know pretty much nothing lol
The rikishi who essentially got me into Sumo. GOAT is a term that gets thrown around a lot but when you watched Hakuho in tournaments it was clear more often than not how much distance there was between him and others in terms of skill and determination.
What is purifying salt exactly? I’ve heard people make jokes about using table salt to ward off evil spirits like it *obviously* wouldn’t work. Is the purifying salt different from normal salt?
Sumo is pretty entertaining to watch.