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# Sumo Skills: Instructional Guide for Competitive Sumo

**Brand:** thomas zabel
**Price:** € 76.12
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- **What is this?** Sumo Skills: Instructional Guide for Competitive Sumo by thomas zabel
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Sumo Skills: Instructional Guide for Competitive Sumo

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for Sumo
*by F***M on February 28, 2025*

Informative, good step by step of many aspects of gyoji, shinpan, and sumotori actions. Kimarite are pretty well illustrated. Warmups and calisthenics are easy to understand. I could wish for updated art of the body movements as sometimes when there is a more complicated leg or arm interaction it is hard to discern that. Overall, this book works fine but I could wish for small tweaks.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The most comprehensive sumo manual in English
*by S***A on December 27, 2022*

If you are wanting to try sumo but don't know where to start, this book is your first step. Not only does it list every known kimarite (winning move), but it also teaches you many other important basics, like tying the mawashi (sumo belt), important vocabulary, and how to perform the ritualistic gestures of sumo associated with Shinto tradition.Some of the info is a little out of date, such as the list of U.S. sumo champions, but this isn't anything that would inhibit you from learning sumo. I'd love to see an updated edition some day.Sumo wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S. currently, as well as having a robust community of international sumotori, outside of the traditional Grand Sumo in Japan, who compete all over the world. Over just the past 3 years the number of sumo clubs in the U.S. has quadrupled, with about a dozen tournaments now being held across the country every year. Most of the founders of these clubs that I've personally talked to own a copy of this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE book to own on Sumo
*by C***O on March 28, 2021*

As a Martial Artist of 30+ years and a fan of Sumo for 25 years, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the depth and details of Sumo. Well written, easily understood and super easy to look up specific questions. Unlike other books on Sumo, this book takes it to a level of detail I've never seen in a martial art outside the dojang/dojo. Kudos to the author on a job VERY well done, and I encourage anyone interested in Sumo to add this one to your library!

## Frequently Bought Together

- Sumo Skills: Instructional Guide for Competitive Sumo
- The Way of Salt: Sumo and the Culture of Japan
- Sumo: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Japan's National Sport (Tuttle Classics)

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