'It keeps you young.' A mother and son take up sumo wrestling, defying stereotypes.
LOS ANGELES — The country's best sumo wrestlers practice kitty-corner from a 99-cent store in a Torrance strip mall. The floor in the rented dojo has just enough space for one ring made of a white plastic tarp with green foam pool noodles velcroed to the ground in a circular shape. Two parallel yellow lines in the center mark the starting position.
Tall women weighing close to 300 pounds alongside thin men who check in under 180 circle up for stretches. A 10-year-old boy joins with a shy smile.
This sumo wrestling is not the cliched images of 600-pound men in nothing but top knots and loin cloths.
The sport at the international level is inclusive for all shapes, genders and ages, so much so that it's turned into a
