i went to a cherry blossom festival over the weekend. there were no cherry blossoms in bloom. this is l.a., so everything already bloomed and is now starting to die. i was suppose to see a friend perform taiko drums and i wanted to see some karate related demos. my friend said that his group was going to start at 1:15pm and even though i got there right on time, his group started early and i missed everything except the last set (five minutes woth). i ended up missing all the karate demos because i was a sumo wrestling demo. i took a video and it's 16 1/2 minutes long. if you have time, watch it.

if you don't like looking at half naked fat people or especially fat guys in "thongs", too bad. i think everyone should watch the video because there were some interesting information about sumo wrestling and it was just fun to watch. i'm guessing that this is work friendly if you want to watch at work since the demo was taken at a festival where there were kids, families, elderly people and conservative people watching.

one of the guys who was the biggest there did a full splits and did the los angeles full marathon last month. being at 440lbs that he was, i find it hard that he did the marathon without losing a lot of weight.