This week I had the great chance to have a dinner with Hokaho a sumo from Miyagino stable.
The dinner was with him, one of my teachers and some fans of him!
And today he invited us to his stable to see his training.
As you can see all the sumos are very flexible, this is part of their training.
Hokaho is still lower rank (makushita) but I hope he will be sekitori soon.
He is really a very nice and intelligent person.
I could also see the hairdressing of some sumos.
As you have seen the sumo haircut is very specific and so they have some specialized hairdresser
They put some special wax that smells so good
and as you see the hairs are pretty long!
From some face expressions that I have seen, I think this is hurting sometimes!
I have offered Hokaho some present, including a swiss knife with which he hurt himself, I was feeling so bad!!!
And as a thank you he offer us some sweets (that are actually delicious!)
If you want to see more
pictures
Here also a video of some part of the training.
This was again really nice experience!!!
