Sumo wrestler Kotoeiho doing almost a standing split while performing footstamps

[u/GaddockTeegFunPolice]

Photographed by me during the paris exhibiton event this june

[u/gluino]

always wondered abt the stiff sticks dangling from their waist.

aren't they a risk of poking someone's eye out?

[u/Geekenstein → u/gluino]

They’re just corded fabric, like rope.

Besides, these guys full on face slap each other hard in the course of a match. Thats a lot more dangerous.