In addition to the fantasy football forfeit employed by the Tijuana Luchadores, Remi introduced a couple of extra concepts borrowed from his time training with sumo stables in Japan -- since he doesn't play fantasy football. The first is the service forfeit, where certain players have to cook for the rest of the team, and clean the team bathrooms. This is common in sumo stables as a regular thing, rather than a forfeit, but of course, professional football players exist in a very different environment to a traditional sumo stable. This has backfired a few times, though, since most of the team are not particularly skilled in the kitchen...
The other is modelled on the sumo tradition of sanban-geiko, a row of training matches with the same opponent, designed to test endurance. For the Luchadores, a player who falls foul of team rules on discipline has to run a gauntlet of various exercises against their teammates at the start of the next training session, with additional forfeits if they can't complete it.
Applying most of the extremely regimented aspects of sumo training to a football team would probably be detrimental overall, so this is where the comparison ends, but Remi is passionate about this, and has mentioned a willingness to train to become a coach once his career is over. With that in mind, it should probably come as no surprise that he has stated he would probably employ several sumo training techniques and disciplinary methods he learned in various heya with his players in such a case.
The other is modelled on the sumo tradition of sanban-geiko, a row of training matches with the same opponent, designed to test endurance. For the Luchadores, a player who falls foul of team rules on discipline has to run a gauntlet of various exercises against their teammates at the start of the next training session, with additional forfeits if they can't complete it.
Applying most of the extremely regimented aspects of sumo training to a football team would probably be detrimental overall, so this is where the comparison ends, but Remi is passionate about this, and has mentioned a willingness to train to become a coach once his career is over. With that in mind, it should probably come as no surprise that he has stated he would probably employ several sumo training techniques and disciplinary methods he learned in various heya with his players in such a case.
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