Crab Sumai Wrestler

The Crab Sumai is an advanced school of training, and is considered to be a set of clan secret techniques. The Crab Clan rarely makes exceptions to this, but the most common exception is for Badger Clan samurai.

Training
Testing their strength is a favorite pasttime of many Crab samurai, and is one of the more popular forms of dueling when facing another Crab. The Crab Sumai School is taught at the Stone Tower Dojo in Toshi Ranbo.

The training the Crab Sumai receive is certainly different from the instruction for the Hida Wrestler. Whereas the latter are still trained in Crab lands, alongside the Hida Bushi, the former are trained near the Imperial City, and taught some measure of the skills they will need to know to survive courtly life. In this school, they learn the rituals associated with the Sumai art, and become more of an emissary for the Crab.

Before learning the techniques of this Advanced School, Crab Sumai compete at the rank of juryo, the lowest of the four ranks of Sumai. As they learn the techniques of the school, their ability to compete increases, and they climb in rank until they reach the highest and most respected rank of Sumai, the Yokozuna. This rank is extremely important, as only wrestlers of this rank are allowed to compete during the Imperial Winter Court. As the Sumai are in many ways duelists and representatives of their clan, this is an excellent time to settle matters of honor, and gain the favor of the Emperor at the same time.