Bringing Sumō Back Some practitioners of medieval and early modern Japanese martial arts - koryū bugei - augment their training with some form of combat sport practice in order to experience "live" or "freestyle" fighting, as many koryū either eschew any kind of sparring practice entirely or do not place much emphasis on it. This includes weapons' disciplines, where practitioners may add an art like kendo, more rarely another Asian weapons sparring or historical European art with sparring; and grappling, where people tend to study judo or, increasingly, BJJ (Basically Just Judo, or as it is more popularly called "Brazilian" Jiujitsu). 1 For some time now I've explored sumō instead. While I have been interested in it from very early on, after reading up on Chinese wrestling and sensing a connection between them, I first experienced sumō-like training in Araki-ryū. We would do sumō-style wrestling as a warmup before practicing our combative grap...
Araki-ryu torite kogusoku