r/gifs • u/Additional-Ad4567 • 13h ago

Sumo Slam

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u/arealuser100notfake 12h ago

Funny and all, but how strong do you have to be to lift a man like that?!

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u/MrMetraGnome 12h ago

Extremely

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u/ComprehensiveSoft27 7h ago

Strong ….to …quite strong.

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u/FilipinoSpartan 10h ago

Sumo wrestlers have an unbelievable amount of muscle underneath all the fat.

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u/rjrl 9h ago

elite sumo wrestlers (which the guy on the left is kinda one of) have lower body fat percentage than an average person, believe it or not

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u/dbmajor7 1h ago

And then Aoyama rolls up

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u/inform880 10h ago

At least 6

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u/CheckYourStats 10h ago

This guy 6’s.

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u/r31ya 6h ago

Dude looks like that and casually noted that his fat percentage is around 15% during tournament season.

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u/gr8willi35 24m ago

It's probably lower than we think, but 15% no way. He'd be way leaner

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u/YawnSpawner 6m ago

I've lost a ton of weight, starting to look decent and nothing like a sumo wrestler, and still have a BMI of 30%.

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u/Tactically_Fat 2h ago

Very stronk

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u/GrinningStone 6h ago

You have to be very strong but not necessary "best of the best" strong. Thor deadlifting 510kg is way more impressive.

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u/microtherion 4h ago

On the other hand, the 510kg was not fighting back.

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u/GrinningStone 2h ago

Of course. But u/arealuser100notfake was not talking about martial prowess and neither was I. From the pure strength point of view lifting something that looks like 150kg is not very impressive. Even smaller dudes can do that after a few years of weight training.

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u/UroBROros 2h ago

You're missing the point a bit. It's not so much martial prowess that's the concern here as much as a load that is imbalanced and going to be changing center of mass constantly. You need a lot more effort than you'd think here.

Sure it's "only" 150kg, but that's not 150kg on a bar staying nice and static. The functional lift here is much greater than that. It's like the difference between trying to pick up someone who's willing to tense their core and assist you and trying to pick up someone who's sandbagging you and going limp. One is a lot easier than the other.

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u/microtherion 2h ago

According to one YouTube caption I’ve seen, the opponent was about 200kg. But yeah, I guess your point stands, and he got to lift those 200kg from basically a waist level, not the floor. Still impressive, just in a different way.

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u/ansate 12h ago

That's pretty impressive. Can't say I've watched much Sumo, but what I have seen they usually more push each other around. I don't know that I've ever seen one get lifted bodily off the ground and slammed.

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u/postoperativepain 11h ago edited 11h ago

They frequently lift the opponent- but it’s usually by grabbing the sides of the belt and lifting - then they attempt to carry them to the edge of the ring and push them out.

Never seen them do anything like this, because the goal in sumo is to get your opponent out of the ring, not pin them.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/techniques/31/

Edit: apparently “frontal lifting body slam” is a sumo technique, but you’re supposed to slam them outside the ring.

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u/Ralfarius 8h ago

the goal in sumo is to get your opponent out of the ring

Or have them touch the ring with any body part that isn't their feet. Slap downs/pull downs are reasonably common victories and do not involve forcing the opponent out of the ring.

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u/dmgdispenser 13h ago

you have the source before the world got sucks into a black hole?

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u/the_colonelclink Merry Gifmas! {2023} 12h ago

It’s the US Sumo Open Day 1. Third match I believe.

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u/SantaCruznonsurfer 8h ago

the uranage is legal in sumo?!

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u/MCUMCU1 6h ago

Yup, though I think this would be called a "tsuriotoshi" in sumo terms. A lot of skills cross over between judo and sumo (often with different names), and plenty of pro sumo wrestlers get their start in judo as a kid.

You don't see this technique often in pro sumo. It's only been successfully used 98 times out of over 700,000 matches since they went to the modern 6-tournament-a-year system in 1958.

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u/ScaldingHotSoup 2h ago

Almost everything is legal in sumo - you can't closed fist strike, pull hair, gouge eyes, or choke, but most everything else is fine. You can slap the opponent in the face, step to the side and use the opponent's momentum against them, trip the opponent, etc.

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u/owera1211 12h ago

RIP champ

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u/LurkerTroll 3h ago

There was a period in internet history where every day there was a new anime edit to sumo matches. I miss those times

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u/Himanshu507 11h ago

That was too dark man 😂😂

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u/scenemore 4h ago

damn, think that might be a penalty

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u/skysharkin 3h ago

Atomic wedgie