Sports-sumo and Wrestling

Wrestling sport

Wrestling is the sport of one Man fighting against another without the use of fists. The object is to fell the opponent to the ground striking. Many forms of wrestling exist but the most popular amateur forms are Freestyle and Graeco Roman. The main difference between them is that in freestyle. Wrestlers may apply holds on the opponent’s legs or use their own legs to trip throw the opponent, and to apply holds. In Graeco, Roman wrestling holds on the body below the waist and the use of the legs to hold or trip an opponent are prohibited.

*Freestyle wrestling

*Graeco Roman wrestling

Sumo sport

Sumo is a Japanese form of wrestling competition. It takes in a 12 feet (3.66 m) diameter circle. The winner of a sumo bout is mainly determined by two rules.

a)      The first wrestler to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet loses.

b)      The first wrestler to touch the ground outside the circle loses. Sumo wrestlers are very large and eat vast amounts of food to increase their weight and body size.

*The sole costume of a sumo wrestler is the mawashi. It is a wide silk belt wrong around the waist with a section passed between the legs and pulled up between the buttocks. The mawashi is what an opposing wrestler normally grasps during a fi9ght.

·        Sumo wrestling: – the competitors’ centre of gravity must be as low as possible. So they eat a large amount of rice to get as heavy as possible.

Rugby game

Rugby originated at rugby school, England, when a pupil picked up the ball during a game of foot ball and ran towards the opponent’s goal. The idea caught on and spread to other public schools. Rugby is played with an oval ball. The object of the game is to out or carry the ball toward the opponent’s goles line, and kick it through the goal or carry it over the goal line for a core. Rugby is now played in two forms: rugby league and rugby union. There are 15 players in each side rugby union and 13 in rugby. In rugby, the players must always pass backwards.

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