Tikar-kurabe and award
In ancient Japan, the fight was rather primitive. Here's how it describes the "Nihongi (Japan"): "... but Nomi-Sukune come from Idzumi, and him and the time-but Kehaya immediately commanded to fight. These men stood opposite each other. Both legs raised and friend each other. And Nomi-no Sukune broken ribs Kehaya blow, and once again struck and broke his back. "Therefore land is a time-but Kehaya was seized and given to the entire nominal but Sukune."
Such competition in Nihongi "called Tikar-kurabe -" to measure force. " I think this name is quite accurate reflection of the essence. It is strength, not technique, and agility were determined to fight the winner. In V-VI century on the basis of Tikar-kurabe a popular and now the battle of giants - sumo, to be exact - an early version of its award. By the Nara period of the struggle has been widely disseminated. This is precisely the time include reliable information on the competitions in sumo.
With regard to technology, then "sumo", it would seem, was rather primitive, and consisted of mostly pushing, shooting down, zavalivaniya. The emphasis has been on the force. Wrestlers sought through a special diet to increase its own weight and, judging by the images, they succeeded, even in those remote, not fully secured the times. At tournaments attacks cease to apply because of their extreme danger to health, but in real combat fighters often use strikes with hands and blow tolchkovy heel forward. Since the victory in the ritual battle awarded wrestler, dropped out enemy ground, the struggle is not waged in the parterre, and thus not studied.