There are Israelis who are eager to become wrestlers.
While a new wrestler was announced on the 19th, the 8th day of the autumn season, Jarden Jatkovsky (23) is having a hard time getting into the corner. “I want you to know (to your parents) how much you like sumo.” Wait for the opportunity while training in your home country.
Born and raised in the small Israeli town of Kfar Sirkin. Since his grandfather enjoyed watching sports and watching sumo on TV, Jarden also “loved sumo” when he was four years old. Since there was no sumo leader in the neighborhood, when he started Jiu-Jitsu, which is close to sumo, he also won the national tournament in 11 years of competitive life. When he moved with his family at the age of 15, he started playing handball with an acquaintance.
“At first I wasn’t so interested in handball, but as my Jiu-Jitsu coach retired, I decided to take a break from Jiu-Jitsu training and try handball. After a while, I decided to play handball. I’m getting good grades and I’m starting to enjoy it. “
While Israel is obliged to serve in the military when he graduates from high school, Jarden became a professional handball player at the same time. Although the activities will be carried out in parallel with the military service obligation, a certain level of understanding will be shown to young people who are active in fields such as athletes and music artists in Israel. “Handball has given me the strength to do my army’s mission in good condition. The army’s mission itself has been busy and I’m ready to work on sumo. “. Everything was about building a body to become a sumo wrestler.
In March of last year, when he had completed his military service and was ready to fund, he was planning to come to Japan with the aim of entering the corner, but he gave up due to travel restrictions due to the corona wreck. 21 years old at that time. Find a way to get started in a situation where you can’t move. We contacted “all rooms with public phone numbers and email forms” such as the homepage of each sumo room. I also sent a video of myself training and impressed my diligence. I received a reply from 5 sumo rooms. “It was far less than the emails and phone calls I sent,” he said. It is said that the sumo room that received the reply was refused or the reply was withheld.
He turned 23 in June of this year without any improvement. If the application for “age restriction relaxation” submitted by the introductory room master is approved by the board of directors of the Japan Sumo Association after achieving a certain level of results in martial arts such as sumo, judo, and wrestling even under the age of 25, it will be new. I knew that I could take a discipleship test (according to the rules of association members, each athlete who has experience in competition should participate in national competitions of high school and above, except for achievements of junior high school students and younger).
Although he had won a jujutsu tournament when he was a student, he said, “I realized that the achievements alone were not enough,” he said. Under the guidance of Oren Smadja, who won the bronze medal in the men’s 71 kg class at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, he won second place in the “Israel Judo Association Championship” and won the “Israel Judo Association Cup”. “These achievements seem to correspond to the achievements pointed out by the Sumo Association, but in that sense they are important achievements, and we were able to obtain the necessary achievements,” he said.
It is said that he is also doing basic sumo exercises such as Shikona, Shikona, and Teppo, referring to the videos on the net. Based on the wrestler’s eating habits, change to two meals a day and eat your own chanko nabe during the day. With 10,000 calories a day as a guide, he has gained 30 kilograms over the past year to 140 kilograms. There was a rule that you couldn’t eat pork for religious reasons called “Kosher”, but I stopped Kosher to match the Japanese diet. We also hired a tutor once a week to start studying Japanese. To avoid the risk of injury, he also closed his professional handball contract in January this year.
Jarden hopes that a hosting sumo room will appear, but the outlook is uncertain at this time. Of the five rooms that responded, two rooms, the Kise room and the Naruto room, have already introduced foreign wrestlers. One master who responded to the phone interview said, “I was contacted (by Mr. Jarden), but before that there was a child who was talking to a Mongolian. He also sent me a video of sumo wrestling with a friend on the beach. However, I have to decline as long as I have a previous contract, “he said apologetically.
“I want you to know how much I like sumo and Japan. I also want you to know that you are ready to do anything for sumo,” Jarden emphasized. We are also calling for cooperation on SNS, and we are waiting for the arrival of an opportunity.[Reisei Sato](Nikkan Sports.com / Battle Column “Ozumou Inside Story”)
- Jarden Jatkovsky from Israel, who is training in his home country hoping to enter the horny world (right) (provided by himself)
- Jarden Jatkovsky from Israel, who is training in his home country hoping to enter the horny world. Sumo wrestling on a sandy beach (provided by himself)
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