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Fascination of a quick bout | Manaho Nozaki | TEDxHamamatsu


Translation: uchiyama yuka proofreading: Tetsuya Kawaguchi

By the time of first grade elementary school

I was fascinated by sumo at the sumo wrestling competition for the first time

I am happy about the surrounding cheers when I won a bigger boy or a boy than me

I am happy that I can win with a 1: 1 match rather than anything

I have been in sumo wrestling even now I am in my third year of college

But I hit a big wall

Due to the injury of his right shoulder in high school

Do you have surgery from the doctor or stop sumo wrestling

It was given two choices

Why did I choose to keep sumoing

That’s more than anything

Because I have a feeling that I like sumo

Because I have that feeling

I’ve been practicing walls that I’ve hit by so far

And get over for the sake of the future

I want to realize my dream of world domination

Since I was young I

Do wrestling sumo wrestlers

Currently at university I am practicing everyday aiming for the world’s best in women’s sumo.

What kind of image do you have when you hear that it is female sumo wrestling?

Please watch this video

(Cheers) (shutter sound)

(Scream)

Concentrated concentration

Concentrated concentration

(司司) は い っ け い い い

Yoshiyoshi!

This is women’s sumo wrestling

I wore a leotard and rolled up a turn

The rule is basically the same as male amateur sumo

Sumo is a traditional competition that has been held in Japan since 1500 years ago

It gradually changed its shape

Sports of sumo are men’s sports

I think that there are many people who imagine big wrestlers’ collision as big sumo wrestling

But at amateur

Women as well as men can take sumo

Female sumo wrestling with class match

There is also indiscriminate game is also one of the features

The class is divided into four of super light weight class light weight class medium weight class weight class

Each has its own charm

Unmistakable games

Sometimes the players who are 100 km apart may play games

Each player wanders through various thinking

It is interesting to take sumo

When I was in first grade I met wrestling

My family loves professional wrestling

It is a big event of my family to go watching wrestling with my family from a young age

It was natural that fighting sports were close to me

Three older brothers say “I want to do wrestling”

I also went to see it together

At first, I did not plan to learn wrestling

Envy that my mother and older brother go out to dinner after practice

As I was eating, I also started wrestling

I decided to participate in that wrestling team

It is the sumo wrestling touched first

I was fascinated by sumo wrestling every year in the competition

I participated in the national competition for the first time in elementary school sixth grade

The result loses the second game

I did not hear any follow-up and it was full of feelings I just regretted

Pre-match Sumo is an elementary school student? I thought that

The regret that I lost in my favorite sumo

I extended my sumo wrestling life

Become a junior high school student and start judo by club activities

Wrestling Sumo wearing three legs of judo’s judo

I got to do some fighting sports every day

It is almost a week off without holidays

And the nationwide tournament of Sumo wrestling

In the lightest weight among the lightweight class

My parents who came to cheer are also halfway give up

Second runner bigger than me to win second place

First prize at the national competition in junior high school second grader

I won the contest in the national competition the following year

I became a high school student and began to devote more to sumo wrestling

But I did not quit wrestling or judo

Sumo wrestling is the basis of sumo wrestling

My base for sumo is speed and tenacious strength

And it is the power to use the opponent’s power and momentum

It is technology gained from wrestling and judo

With the speed

You can sumo your shape and your own pace

Even if I become disadvantaged

If perseverance do not give up to the end

Apply skill by looking at the timing

You can take it to your own shape

Using the opponent’s power to apply paint

You can decide throwing techniques

In the last year of high school life

I had aimed at high school in 3 years

Becoming a representative at the Women’s Sumo Junior World Championship

I participated.

I was not familiar with the air of the venue at the first world convention

While becoming crushed by pressure

Helped by family and teammate followers

I could recommend a piece and the final game that I greeted

Dive quickly into the bosom of the opponent who tried to drop my head from meeting

Kill your opponent by taking legs

It was able to stand at the top of the world

It was because I had just experience of wrestling and judo because I got this result

Ever wrestling in Sumo judo

Sumo content that seems to be culmination

Of course I was satisfied with the result

To what I’m stuck with these three competitions

It was a competition that I was able to have confidence

Junior high school students will mainly do wrestling and also do judo

Why did you finally choose sumo wrestling?

I think that everyone wonders

The answer is simple

Sumo won the first victory

It is because I have done these three competitions

Results are coming out in sumo

It is because I have done these three competitions

I think that sumo could be narrowed down to the end

Wrestling Judo is an Olympic Games

There are many people who do not know even girls sumo wrestling

Stand up on a tension-filled place where the gaze of spectators gather

Start meeting with your opponent at your own timing

From that point it is a momentary match that can not be reversed

Wrestling is a point system for judo

Sumo wrestling when you go outside the ring if a foot other than your feet sticks to the ground

Because it is a one-time match in a moment

I do not know what will happen on the ring

It is not unusual for small players to beat big players

That sumo is not just power skill

I think that it is because it is a sport that also has timing and speed

Wrestling and Judo classes are classified finely

For indiscriminate games where all heavyweight athletes participate from lightweight players

I have never seen it at an international convention

But in sumo wrestling elements other than strength and weight also greatly affect the outcome

Even in indiscriminate games

I think that lightweight players may be able to win

Sometimes the athlete who was supposed to win by absolutely loses

That is sumo wrestling for a moment’s game

It is because the spiritual influence greatly emerges

The more pressure you expect, the greater the pressure

It is the opponent and yourself who fights in it

Sumo is a simple rule like this

If you enter it deeply

I have not arrived at the answer yet

I am a world champion in the junior division

But on top of that there is a senior division

There is a big difference there

I want to be a world champion even in the senior division

I am practicing every day.

At the same time I strongly want to send women’s sumo to the world

Women’s sumo wrestling is surprising, nothing special either

Just a sumo wrestling image

Just because the fixed concept of “a big male body does” is disturbing

I think sumo should be recognized as one sport

I want a sumo to be a sport that anyone can enjoy regardless of gender

And the number of playing population has increased worldwide

It is our competitor’s dream that we want you to become an Olympic Games

To everyone at the beginning

I asked you what kind of image you have after listening to women’s sumo.

Has the image changed?

As a senior player aiming for world champion

Strength and transience of instantaneous game

I want to keep it in my hands

And I want to spread the sports of women’s sumo to everyone and spread it

(applause)

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