Kendo

Kendo is a modern traditional sport of Japan, and it is a physically and mentally challenging activity that combines strong martial arts values with sport like physical elements. The purpose are to mold the mind and body, to cultivate a vigorous spirit and through correct and rigid training. To forever pursue the cultivation of oneself. Let’s talk about equipment and clothing. Kendo is practiced wearing a traditional Japanese style of clothing, protective armour and using one or, less commonly. Equipment, Japanese sword and is made up of four bamboo slats, which are held together by leather fittings. A modern variation of a shinai with carbon fiber reinforced resin slats is also used. Clothing, The clothing worn under a jacket and hakama, a garment separated in the middle to form two wide trouser legs.

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Sumo

Have you ever heard about "sumo" ?. Sumo is one of sports in Japan that is very famous in people who have big body or big bones and it is a competitive contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally. Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto religion. Life as a rikishi is highly regimented, with rules laid down by the Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in communal "sumo training stables" known in Japanese as heya where all aspects of their daily lives.

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