(quirky music)
Welcome back to the show
We are hanging out with two-time world
Sumo champion and the heaviest Japanese person
in recorded history, Yama, and also
the head of US Sumo and also the current
US Sumo champion, lightweight champion,
Andrew Freund, Thanks Guys.
Are you gonna teach us some stuff?
Well, whenever you guys are ready to learn,
Yama's gonna teach you as much as possible in
just a few minutes, you guys ready to go?
Yes Yes
I'm just saying yes.
You're not meaning it?
Well, the first thing is, you guys are not as
impressive physically as him, so it sounds like you
don't wanna reveal your physiques.
We do enough of that on this show, honestly.
But we're gonna tie you up in these sumo belts,
these Mawashis, these are the real deal.
That sounds incredible.
Sounds great
It looks like a fire hose in its current configuration.
We're just spread eagle?
(hip hop music)
OOOOH!
It's really not that bad.
But you can't slap,
(all laugh)
Yeah, do that again.
You can't slap a man with glasses.
Oh, really? You can't slap a man with glasses.
Yama's gonna show you the basics here,
you want him to be in the middle and you guys on
the sides or what?
Yeah yeah Sure, yeah
So, Yama (speaks Japanese).
So Yama, you're gonna face camera (Japanese).
You're gonna do the basic exercise of Shuko.
So you're gonna Squat down, (Japanese)
Wow, my jeans are pretty tight.
And then your right foot, your right leg's gonna
go up, look how high he goes,
Whoah!
Like this guys, way up.
(grunting)
Now all the way down, squat all the way down
like he does, now the left foot is gonna go
all the way up, come on guys
He's gonna put is toe in your nose.
We'll do two more, let's try to do it in
sync with him, you ready 3-2-1 everybody up
one more, now normally, in Japan he'd be doing
about 300 of these in a row every morning.
300?
300 Yeah, Take an hour.
Kinda like a one legged squat.
Now what are the noises that are happening?
There was a 'shoomp' what was that?
It's just kind of a, just a grunt basically.
But normally we'd be counting in Japanese.
Every time he would say ichi, then we'd echo
ichi, then he'd say ni, and we'd echo ni and
we'd be counting for an hour straight.
All right let's do it, we got all kinds of time.
Okay, now we gotta show you how limber you
have to be in Sumo, you wanna be very flexible,
(speaks Japanese)
you wanna be very flexible because it helps you
avoid injuries when you fall down.
So let's have you guys do this please?
OOH! Let's go guys.
Uh, I can just observe.
Now wait, wait, do the best you can,
he's not done yet, again, Yama is the heaviest
Japanese human being in recorded history
at almost 600 pounds,
Oh! Oh! Yama!
Very, very flexible, now wait wait.
Part two, He's gonna go all the way down.
Get ready for this, alright here we go guys.
(Japanese)
(Laughter)
You? You, Just you buddy.
So part two here,
Oh my goodness, I got quite a view back here guys.
(laughter)
- [Andrew] Oh what a bunch of wimps, okay
Link can do the worm.
He's got you! No! No!
Yeah yeah, get'im
(Laughter)
He's playing with you like a toy.
(Japanese)
And that's it huh, it's over.
One or two more exercises, now you know how
in boxing you move a certain way?
In Kung Fu, whatever, but in Sumo,
you're gonna move where
you don't lift your feet off the ground,
your feet are gonna slide, they're
never gonna leave the ground, you wanna
be stable, so watch him move, he's
gonna go to camera, no boxing okay?
So watch him one time and then
you guys are gonna do it.
He's gonna slide the feet, elbows in
there, come on Rhett, what are you doing.
Elbows in here like this so you're gonna be like
low, like this, tuck your head in yeah?
Okay go ahead guys, you're looking a little
wobbly there, you wanna have a wider stance there.
What you guys can learn from us is the look on the face.
That'll get everybody really intimidated.
Now learn from his mistake, his
footwork is horrible, his footwork is sort of,
Keep a wide stance, make two railroad tracks
and slide your feet, keep it wide.
Wide stance, good, too wide, too wide.
There we go, open up your knees, that's better.
That's better Rhett, elbows in.
Wow, can we be a tag team, are there tag teams?
Well no, now we gotta wrap it up in a second so
there's one more thing we're gonna do.
I think Yama needs a little bit of a workout.
I think he does not.
I think you gotta challenge him, Link.
I think There we go.
I challenge you to a couch-off.
Let's fight!
Link, I think you should probably take off the glasses.
Uh, doesn't that make my face more of a target?
That's okay, there we go, thanks Rhett.
Let's do the ritual so you're gonna back up here,
You're gonna bow together, do what he does.
You're my manager man, like give me a pep talk.
All right, you might die!
(whispering)
All right, here we go
I understand Yeah.
(Sumo grunts)
Fists down, when I give the command,
you're gonna attack so all you wanna do,
all you're gonna do is you're gonna push him over okay?
I'm like a bird.
Here we go, here's the match.
Multi-time world champion, Yama vs.
Link, who is not.
(wrestling bell)
Alright, fists down, What do you mean?
(martial arts screams)
Push! Push! Push!
Push him link, push!
(laughter)
come on, Link!
You got him right where you want him.
Try harder!
(Link yelling)
(Yama grunting)
(laughter)
Yama Wins!
(wrestling bell)
That was amazing!
Hey, if you could be here every day and
do that, that would be great.
Hey hey look!
(laughter)
OK! OK!
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