Sumo for Mixed Martial Arts. Andrew Zerling
by using his weight and power. Konishiki has said his sumo fighting style was “strictly offensive.”17 He did not try to counter his opponent’s moves defensively. By applying his monstrous size and strength, Konishiki just tried offensively to force his opponent out of the ring. His tactics worked so well they helped him achieve the much esteemed ozeki rank, the rank right before yokozuna. Although these offensive tactics usually only work for the larger rikishi, it is important to see how the larger rikishi wrestles, as this will help to show how the smaller rikishi devise ways to counter them.
Here Konishiki describes his sumo fighting style in depth: “My style is just using hands more. It’s like a boxing style, with just heavy punching. Just learning how to move my hands.”18 “My style is all power. Hitting and just powering people out. Using my hands like a football pass blocker that is my style of wrestling and I guess that is my strongest point. If I can hit a guy in the jaw and get him off balance.… Either you’re going to take a blow or I’m going to take a blow, but I’m not taking any. I’m the one who wants to give the blows. I’m trying to learn how to counter things that I’m not too good at, because when people grab my belt I have trouble. The smaller people because of the technique and because the ways that their style is different. It is like opposite of what I do.”19 It is interesting to note that Konishiki states that pushing sumo and belt-grabbing sumo are rather opposite styles. The pushing sumo style relies on physical attributes such as weight, power, and speed, while the belt-grabbing or clinching style is more of a learned technical skill.
Professional sumo wrestlers perform the ring-entering ceremony (dohyo-iri). May 2005.
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