mikawa 1,794 Posted August 1, 2017 Tachikawa Renseikan's Sagawa-sensei was kind enough to let me watch their keiko today to make notes on what happens during a keiko session at a local sumo club. Here's what happened during today's keiko, which was 3 hours long. The notes are based on how many times any particular club member does each activity, so we are thus able to see exactly how much exercise a club member gets during their twice-a-week keiko sessions, and to see if we ourselves are able to take it. 18:10 - Some club members have changed into their mawashi belts, and start to sweep the dohyo 18:30 - The sweeping is done and more members have arrived, so they spray some water on the dohyo 18:32 - Some warm-up exercises, which includes Swinging their arms clockwise and anti-clockwise 24 times Stretching their arms and body 48 times Move their head sideways, forward, back, and in a circle 32 times Do the bow stance 4 times 18:36 - Do shiko 100 times (by the end of it, they were all VERY tired and covered in sweat)，then do the drop stance 12 times 18:48 - Suriashi, which includes Doing it slowly 6 times Doing it quickly 9 times Doing it quickly and then moving rightwards 14 times Doing it quickly and then moving rightwards, then leftwards, then rightwards again 3 times Doing it quickly 5 times 18:56 - Suriashi finishes, the club members get some rest 19:02 - Moving sideways along the edge of the dohyo like in suriashi, changing directions as soon as the coach claps their hand (otherwise keep moving around the dohyo in the same direction) 19:03 - The above training finishes, the club members get some more rest 19:06 - Doing suriashi around the dohyo, but this time moving forwards by jumping, and holding a dumbbell in their hand 19:08 - The above training finishes, the club members get some more rest 19:10 - They sweep the dohyo, and spray some more water 19:13 - The club members are sorted into pairs, and face their paired opponent up to 12 times 19:14 - During this time, the club members who are not involved in a bout train around the dohyo, which includes Squatting Shiko Push-ups Swinging their arms Teppo 19:38 - Moshi-ai (where the winner stays on and can choose their next opponent), some club members had up to 7 bouts during this time 19:43 - Butsukari-geiko for selected club members, who do this twice against their coach, receiving advise at the same time 19:47 - More moshi-ai, some club members had up to 7 bouts during this time 19:55 - Butsukari-geiko for other selected club members, who do this twice against their coach, receiving advise at the same time 20:00 - Sanban-geiko for selected club members, who face the same opponent 3 times 20:03 - More moshi-ai, some club members had up to 7 bouts during this time 20:14 - Butsukari-geiko for other selected club members, who do this once against their coach, receiving advise at the same time 20:20 - More moshi-ai, some club members had up to 11 bouts during this time 20:31 - Their middle school club members take to the dohyo doing moshi-ai (they arrived halfway through, and were training around the dojo before that), some of them had up to 20 bouts during this time At the same time, the primary school club members are divided into 3 teams, and face each other in team battles on the other dohyo After that, the primary school club members take turns to do butsukari-geiko with Sagawa-sensei, pushing their coach across the dohyo up to 9 times at a time (and at intervals during their butsukari-geiko they needed to walk around the dohyo in suriashi fashion) 21:00 - They sweep the dohyo, creating a mound in the middle 21:04 - Some warm-down exercises, which include Swinging their arms clockwise and anti-clockwise 16 times Stretching their arms and body 16 times Repeat the above 2 steps Move their head sideways, forward, back, and in a circle 16 times Do the bow stance 4 times 21:06 - Sonkyo around the dohyo, closing their eyes and thinking about the day's training 21:07 - They spray the dohyo with water 21:10 - End of keiko 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikawa 1,794 Posted August 1, 2017 On a side note, the mother and younger brother of Sasaki Chikara (a sumo wrestler's son) were also there today, Chikara's brother is also good at sumo 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikawa 1,794 Posted August 1, 2017 (edited) And one more thing. I asked the club members there who their favourite rikishi was. Quite a few of them said Hakuho, 2 of them said Chiyonofuji, and other answers included Abi, Hokutofuji (their club senpai), Asashoryu and Ura Edited August 2, 2017 by mikawa 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
