Post by Hitomi Takamura on May 31, 2011 16:33:06 GMT
Name: Hitomi Takamura
Hometown: Tokio, Japan
Gender: Female
Height: 5´10”
Weight: 135 pounds
Age: 22 years
Trained by: Misaki Yoshida
Theme Song:
Hobbies: Cosplay, video games
Signature Moves:
Finishing Moves:
Biography:
“Wrestling is my life, its everything I ever wanted to do and I ever want to do.” These words were spoken out by Misaki Yoshida 10 years ago in a short interview before her return match in the Tokio Dome after a career threating neck injury. Its one of these rare moments in the life of a person where everything comes together and made you realise that there is more as just the life you currently live. A simple sentences can change your life forever, change the way how you look at your past, at your surrounding, only to realise that the life you have lived is not the one you WANT to life. That your destiny awaits you at a different place, in a different life situation and that you need to walk a different path as you have done before. You just need to do it, but at the age of 13 years, you may be too young to realise this.
Hitomi Takamura may have been too young back then to fully understand what the words Misaki Yoshida would mean for her and how they would affect her future life, her destiny to become one of the most promising female wrestlers in all of Japan. Hitomi may have not known it, but this doesn’t change the fact, that this here is her story and it shall be told.
Hitomi Takamura’s Story:
Chapter 1: My childhood.
I think I am still surprised in a postive way, how my life has changed over the past 10 years, how many wonders of the world I was able to witness and most importantly how much fun I have these day with my work. I am working as pro wrestler, I am a pro wrestler, a Joshi if you want to use the Japanese word for female wrestler, and I am proud about it. I am proud about my life and the job I do, simple because I am working in a job that I actually enjoy, like and even love. But these was not always the chase, my life was quite similar to the lifes of each and every one of you, who read this here.
I spend the biggest part of my childhood in the small village of NAME, which is famous for their Onzen’s. An Onzen could be considered as an bathing house, but unlike a Sento it has a natural source of hot water below it. It is great to grow up in a place like this, you could bath in hot water each day, even in the winter months. It was great, but also a lot of work as I had to help my parents after I have came back home from school. The work I did in the house was not difficult, but it kept me busy quite a lot.I mostly cleaned the floors and the towels of our guests and from time to time I even get rewarded it with a small tip. Oh I loved this tips, I always bought some sweet things from the money I have earned. It was a great time, so simple and uncomplicated, but sadly it didn’t stayed this way, or maybe thankfully I didn’t stayed this way. I think this always depends on your view if its good or bad. In my chase it was good. I mean I had it good at home, but there was always something that was missing. I could feel it, but I never was sure what it was until this special day, a bit over 10 years ago.
My brother came back during his vacation to visit us. The whole family was reunited again for the first time in over 1 year and we had a great time together, as if he has never left us. It was like in the old times, my brother and I. But as they say, all the good things have to come to an end, he only had a few days left of his vacation as I watched with my brother, Yoshi was his name by the way if I have not mentioned it earlier. Yoshi and I were watching an AJPW show, which was really cool and I am not sure who we came up with this … but I asked him if there are women too who does this. I don’t know why I have asked this, but I did it non then less. I think he was surprised about it as it took him quite some time to answer me that, but he answered it. He told me that there are female wrestlers too and that they are as good as the male ones. It was strange for him I guess that his sisters asked him all these questions about wrestling, but it paid off … as we drove to Tokio to watch one of the Joshi’s shows. It was really cool, I was so excited, my brother took me serious and drove with me to tokio to watch wrestling, with me. Its strange in some sort of way as this day, has changed my life forever.
Chapter 2: Destiny calls.
I was so excited about this whole event, I ordered my brother to tell me everything about the Joshi’s who were performing at the event. Oh gosh he spoke a lot at this day, he had too, cause I told him so and like ever good brother he follows his little sisters orders *giggles* But to be serious again, he told me a lot and I think or better said I found the whole story about Misaki Yoshida fascinating. She broke her neck during a match over a year ago and now she is back. She came back, she wants to wrestle again after such an … difficult injury, because she loves wrestling, because its her life. The whole speech she gave before her match has touched me more as I have realised back then. It was one of these life definating points in my life. But back then I didn’t knew this, I only knew that I found it cool that she is back and that she was able to win her comback as well with a lethal submission move. My brother told me afterwards on our way home that Misaki has changed her wrestling style a lot. She was before her injury a high flyer, a high risk taker and that this change in her wrestling style was properly the only reason she could wrestle again saftly. Which was cool again in my books but then I fall asleep and the next thing I remember was waking up the next morning in my bed.
I think the upcoming weeks from these special day on, were rather difficult for my parents as the only think that was on my mind was wrestling. I played around, acted like a wrestler and tried to do some of the moves on my teddy bear, but I failed misserable. Non then less has my life changed, my mind was focused on one thing alone and that was wrestling. You can surely image how worried my parents have been about my beheavier. It went even so far that they have called my brother to come back home to talk with me. But even he could not change my mind about it, I love wrestling after the first show and this could not be changed.
My brother was smart, he was a very clever person and that’s why he knew what would the right thing to do. Strangle enough for my parents it was not that,what they would have thought to be the best for me. A few weeks later, my brother has set his plan in motion and that plan of his, knocked on the gates of your house at the evening of a cold winter evening.
Chapter 3: The first day of my new life
The person who was knocking on the door of my parents house was not my brother. Actually it was the person I feel very honoured to call Sensai these days, it was the Joshi who’s words have touched me so much that I could only think about wrestling all day long. It was Misaki Yoshida and she stood in the door frame as I have opened the door. I was shocked, excited and scared at the same time. I couldn’t believe what I saw, it was so unreal at the moment that I just stood there and stared at my future trainer. I think only a few seconds have passed before she talked to me and pulled me out of my thoughts, but for me it was like an eternity. A few hours of talking about wrestling, how difficult it is, how intensive and stressful the training would be. I think she wanted to scare me or she was just honest about it, I am not sure, but what I am sure of is that I still wanted to do it. The more Misaki talked about it, the more I wanted to become a wrestler, nothing could change my mind. Which was a good thing as Misaki talked with my parents afterwards and she told them that she will take me under her wings, she also said that many girls who follow this path will back down in the end after they have seen how difficult the training is. I think that helped my parents to let me try it out as they were expecting me to come back home soon, after I have realised that wrestling was just a flavour of the moment. But they were wrong, a few months would pass before I would see them again. Misaki and I left the next day, a day I will always remember.
Chapter 4: Years of training.
I think I could write a book about my time in training, which would basically break the limitations of this blog. That’s why I will only give a rough basic look at it. I must say I never have expected that it would be so difficult. I mean wrestling looked so easily, but its not. I have spend the first few months on my back literay. I mean it as I say it. I learned how to fall the right way. I fall on my back, on my face, on my ass, from the top rope from the apron and god knows how much my butt has hurt after each lesson. I also spend the biggest part of my time with endurance training, like running, swimming and a few others methodes to incease my stamina as well training to incease my strength. It was not easy, but after the first few months passed by, I finally got teached the first few basic moves. I learned how to do a clothesline, a chop, punches and many more moves. But as I said it was just the basics and over the years I learned more and more moves, techniques and holds that I would have ever expected. I also started to study karate to incease my offensive, kicks are very important in the japanese wrestling. That’s why I learned karate and now I got a 2nd grad black belt in this sport. That means I am a living weapon lol, no just kidding, but I am really good in it, that’s a fact.
So what came after that? Years of training and that is true as well. I have spend 4 years under Misaki’s wings before she considered me ready for my first match and girl, that match was just sooooooo bad. I really sucked in it, at least that is my opinion when I look back today. But my sensai was happy about it, so I guess I should be the same. I have faced one of the veterans of the promotion Misaki was working for. It was a difficult match for me, cause my opponent was soo much stronger then me back then. I was a head taller, I am 5´10” tall and was skinny back then, but she was heavier and stronger. I tried to throw her off balance, try to hit her with fast moves to lower her stamina, but it didn’t worked so well. She knocked me down on my ass and sooner then later the match was over and I have lost my first match. I learned a lot from this match, took quite some time to analyse my mistakes but overall they were happy about it. What followed from this first match were more matches and soon I was regulary booked for the shows.
Chaper 5: My best friend
During the years of my training at the hands of Misaki Yoshida I also get to know a girl just 1 year older then me. She is the niece of my sensai and listening to the name of Yuki Kenzo. I think it was during my 2nd year of training that I got introduced to her. She has joined our training group and showed of that her skills in the ring where beyond her current age. It was always fascinating to watch her wrestle in the ring, such skills. I think I never meet a student like her before or after who could match her skills. As much skills she can call her own, as much irritating it was to listen to her. She always called herself Yuki and talked in the third person of herself, not to speak of the fact that she moves arounds words in her sentences … I think I shall give a quick impression of her. “Hitomi thinks that Yuki cool is, cool as Hitomi maybe, but not funny as Hitomi is.” Hehe … yes that would be how she would talk to you. Most people thought she may have been a bit simple in her head, but fact is she actually is a bright girl, speaking a few languages as well, but she as well uses the same speeking patterns as well when she speaks that languages. I think it was on purpose that she talked that way, maybe to look like an easy target.
We soon become very good friends and we had a very good time together. Ironically enough I was never able to spend so much time at home with my family before as I had now with Yuki on my side. We nearly drove every 2nd weekend to my home to bath in the Onzen and make the boys crazy. I think it started out of a joke the whole N.i.N thing that Yuki continued to do later on during her time in America. We bathed nude, we run around naked … even in the village and demanded if the boys wanted to look at us they got to join the movement and get naked as well. It was fun, nothing serious, just us girls joking around and fighting the common roles of how a girl should beheave. It was fun … but the time was over to fast as reality catched up with us and Yuki had to leave to head to America. It was basically not her decision, even when it was her decision to do this, but familiar reasons forced her to leave Japan to get her head clear
Chapter 6: My time in America
But Yuki was not the only one who was able to travel to the USA. I had this honour as well, if you want to go so far and call it honour. Actually I was not able to visit many heroic and honourful americans during my time in the USA. It was really disappointing and the fact that I lost my first match over there didn’t helped me either to remember this place as a good one. Sure I gave my best and tested their women champion and pushed her to the limits, but I also knew if I would have been 100% I would have beaten her easily. I mean, I don’t want to sound as if I got a big ego, but I really could have done that. I mean just look at it, I was able to defeat their most dominating women champ and a few other big names without any problems and that was fun. The fun part was to prove that they got no chance against a Joshi. I am still proud about this, as well about the fact that I helped my best friend to promote the movement. Judging by the fan post I got, I did a very good job.
But beside that, there was nothing very intersting in the USA, well that might not have been the truth as I gained another good friend in Chelsea as well I *gasp * gained a love interest as well. No I won’t tell his name, just lets say he is one of the sweetest guys I ever met. He was cute, sweet and an awesome person, he made me laugh, made me giggle like a school girl infront of a famous movie star … I lov …. It was just great, a great time with him and this made my trip to the USA special. Very special.
Chapter 7: I am who I am.
After my time in America I started to realize that I was not happy with myself. I was not happy with my wrestling abilities, not happy with my own body and mostly I had to look for a new path for myself which I could follow. The wrestling ability part was easy to be solved, I have spend the next 5 months afte my return in the gym training. I trained new techniques and beside that I worked on my weight and strength issues. I was too thin and skinny for somebody of my size. I basically weight as much as most girls do at the height of 5´3”, but I am 5´10” tall. This is quite a large difference I have planned to change. I changed my eating habbits, trained more to increase my strength, basically some sort of weightlighting training. I gained a few dozen pounds (ok not so much, but I guess you get what I mean, I am not skinny anymore, but rather well trained) and increased my strength to be able to utilize my size better.
What I could do to find a new direction for my life was not so easy to decide or to find. But for what do you have friends, Yuki my best friend got pregnant and asked me to take over the leadership of her N.i.N stable and movement she has started to estabilate in JTL. I took over and sooner then later I actually started to enjoy myself in this new role. Having your own stable around you can be quite a big help in matches, but at the same time it’s a lot of work as you need to try to keep every member happy. I think I did a good job and beside that I started to expand the movement. I used the internet, tv stations, conventions to promote the idea and concept of N.i.N. It was not easy, but the followers of the movement grow constantly and I think its only a matter of time till everybody will understand that naked is nice.
Chapter 8: TNB??
Unknown yet
Hometown: Tokio, Japan
Gender: Female
Height: 5´10”
Weight: 135 pounds
Age: 22 years
Trained by: Misaki Yoshida
Theme Song:
Hobbies: Cosplay, video games
Signature Moves:
Finishing Moves:
Biography:
“Wrestling is my life, its everything I ever wanted to do and I ever want to do.” These words were spoken out by Misaki Yoshida 10 years ago in a short interview before her return match in the Tokio Dome after a career threating neck injury. Its one of these rare moments in the life of a person where everything comes together and made you realise that there is more as just the life you currently live. A simple sentences can change your life forever, change the way how you look at your past, at your surrounding, only to realise that the life you have lived is not the one you WANT to life. That your destiny awaits you at a different place, in a different life situation and that you need to walk a different path as you have done before. You just need to do it, but at the age of 13 years, you may be too young to realise this.
Hitomi Takamura may have been too young back then to fully understand what the words Misaki Yoshida would mean for her and how they would affect her future life, her destiny to become one of the most promising female wrestlers in all of Japan. Hitomi may have not known it, but this doesn’t change the fact, that this here is her story and it shall be told.
Hitomi Takamura’s Story:
Chapter 1: My childhood.
I think I am still surprised in a postive way, how my life has changed over the past 10 years, how many wonders of the world I was able to witness and most importantly how much fun I have these day with my work. I am working as pro wrestler, I am a pro wrestler, a Joshi if you want to use the Japanese word for female wrestler, and I am proud about it. I am proud about my life and the job I do, simple because I am working in a job that I actually enjoy, like and even love. But these was not always the chase, my life was quite similar to the lifes of each and every one of you, who read this here.
I spend the biggest part of my childhood in the small village of NAME, which is famous for their Onzen’s. An Onzen could be considered as an bathing house, but unlike a Sento it has a natural source of hot water below it. It is great to grow up in a place like this, you could bath in hot water each day, even in the winter months. It was great, but also a lot of work as I had to help my parents after I have came back home from school. The work I did in the house was not difficult, but it kept me busy quite a lot.I mostly cleaned the floors and the towels of our guests and from time to time I even get rewarded it with a small tip. Oh I loved this tips, I always bought some sweet things from the money I have earned. It was a great time, so simple and uncomplicated, but sadly it didn’t stayed this way, or maybe thankfully I didn’t stayed this way. I think this always depends on your view if its good or bad. In my chase it was good. I mean I had it good at home, but there was always something that was missing. I could feel it, but I never was sure what it was until this special day, a bit over 10 years ago.
My brother came back during his vacation to visit us. The whole family was reunited again for the first time in over 1 year and we had a great time together, as if he has never left us. It was like in the old times, my brother and I. But as they say, all the good things have to come to an end, he only had a few days left of his vacation as I watched with my brother, Yoshi was his name by the way if I have not mentioned it earlier. Yoshi and I were watching an AJPW show, which was really cool and I am not sure who we came up with this … but I asked him if there are women too who does this. I don’t know why I have asked this, but I did it non then less. I think he was surprised about it as it took him quite some time to answer me that, but he answered it. He told me that there are female wrestlers too and that they are as good as the male ones. It was strange for him I guess that his sisters asked him all these questions about wrestling, but it paid off … as we drove to Tokio to watch one of the Joshi’s shows. It was really cool, I was so excited, my brother took me serious and drove with me to tokio to watch wrestling, with me. Its strange in some sort of way as this day, has changed my life forever.
Chapter 2: Destiny calls.
I was so excited about this whole event, I ordered my brother to tell me everything about the Joshi’s who were performing at the event. Oh gosh he spoke a lot at this day, he had too, cause I told him so and like ever good brother he follows his little sisters orders *giggles* But to be serious again, he told me a lot and I think or better said I found the whole story about Misaki Yoshida fascinating. She broke her neck during a match over a year ago and now she is back. She came back, she wants to wrestle again after such an … difficult injury, because she loves wrestling, because its her life. The whole speech she gave before her match has touched me more as I have realised back then. It was one of these life definating points in my life. But back then I didn’t knew this, I only knew that I found it cool that she is back and that she was able to win her comback as well with a lethal submission move. My brother told me afterwards on our way home that Misaki has changed her wrestling style a lot. She was before her injury a high flyer, a high risk taker and that this change in her wrestling style was properly the only reason she could wrestle again saftly. Which was cool again in my books but then I fall asleep and the next thing I remember was waking up the next morning in my bed.
I think the upcoming weeks from these special day on, were rather difficult for my parents as the only think that was on my mind was wrestling. I played around, acted like a wrestler and tried to do some of the moves on my teddy bear, but I failed misserable. Non then less has my life changed, my mind was focused on one thing alone and that was wrestling. You can surely image how worried my parents have been about my beheavier. It went even so far that they have called my brother to come back home to talk with me. But even he could not change my mind about it, I love wrestling after the first show and this could not be changed.
My brother was smart, he was a very clever person and that’s why he knew what would the right thing to do. Strangle enough for my parents it was not that,what they would have thought to be the best for me. A few weeks later, my brother has set his plan in motion and that plan of his, knocked on the gates of your house at the evening of a cold winter evening.
Chapter 3: The first day of my new life
The person who was knocking on the door of my parents house was not my brother. Actually it was the person I feel very honoured to call Sensai these days, it was the Joshi who’s words have touched me so much that I could only think about wrestling all day long. It was Misaki Yoshida and she stood in the door frame as I have opened the door. I was shocked, excited and scared at the same time. I couldn’t believe what I saw, it was so unreal at the moment that I just stood there and stared at my future trainer. I think only a few seconds have passed before she talked to me and pulled me out of my thoughts, but for me it was like an eternity. A few hours of talking about wrestling, how difficult it is, how intensive and stressful the training would be. I think she wanted to scare me or she was just honest about it, I am not sure, but what I am sure of is that I still wanted to do it. The more Misaki talked about it, the more I wanted to become a wrestler, nothing could change my mind. Which was a good thing as Misaki talked with my parents afterwards and she told them that she will take me under her wings, she also said that many girls who follow this path will back down in the end after they have seen how difficult the training is. I think that helped my parents to let me try it out as they were expecting me to come back home soon, after I have realised that wrestling was just a flavour of the moment. But they were wrong, a few months would pass before I would see them again. Misaki and I left the next day, a day I will always remember.
Chapter 4: Years of training.
I think I could write a book about my time in training, which would basically break the limitations of this blog. That’s why I will only give a rough basic look at it. I must say I never have expected that it would be so difficult. I mean wrestling looked so easily, but its not. I have spend the first few months on my back literay. I mean it as I say it. I learned how to fall the right way. I fall on my back, on my face, on my ass, from the top rope from the apron and god knows how much my butt has hurt after each lesson. I also spend the biggest part of my time with endurance training, like running, swimming and a few others methodes to incease my stamina as well training to incease my strength. It was not easy, but after the first few months passed by, I finally got teached the first few basic moves. I learned how to do a clothesline, a chop, punches and many more moves. But as I said it was just the basics and over the years I learned more and more moves, techniques and holds that I would have ever expected. I also started to study karate to incease my offensive, kicks are very important in the japanese wrestling. That’s why I learned karate and now I got a 2nd grad black belt in this sport. That means I am a living weapon lol, no just kidding, but I am really good in it, that’s a fact.
So what came after that? Years of training and that is true as well. I have spend 4 years under Misaki’s wings before she considered me ready for my first match and girl, that match was just sooooooo bad. I really sucked in it, at least that is my opinion when I look back today. But my sensai was happy about it, so I guess I should be the same. I have faced one of the veterans of the promotion Misaki was working for. It was a difficult match for me, cause my opponent was soo much stronger then me back then. I was a head taller, I am 5´10” tall and was skinny back then, but she was heavier and stronger. I tried to throw her off balance, try to hit her with fast moves to lower her stamina, but it didn’t worked so well. She knocked me down on my ass and sooner then later the match was over and I have lost my first match. I learned a lot from this match, took quite some time to analyse my mistakes but overall they were happy about it. What followed from this first match were more matches and soon I was regulary booked for the shows.
Chaper 5: My best friend
During the years of my training at the hands of Misaki Yoshida I also get to know a girl just 1 year older then me. She is the niece of my sensai and listening to the name of Yuki Kenzo. I think it was during my 2nd year of training that I got introduced to her. She has joined our training group and showed of that her skills in the ring where beyond her current age. It was always fascinating to watch her wrestle in the ring, such skills. I think I never meet a student like her before or after who could match her skills. As much skills she can call her own, as much irritating it was to listen to her. She always called herself Yuki and talked in the third person of herself, not to speak of the fact that she moves arounds words in her sentences … I think I shall give a quick impression of her. “Hitomi thinks that Yuki cool is, cool as Hitomi maybe, but not funny as Hitomi is.” Hehe … yes that would be how she would talk to you. Most people thought she may have been a bit simple in her head, but fact is she actually is a bright girl, speaking a few languages as well, but she as well uses the same speeking patterns as well when she speaks that languages. I think it was on purpose that she talked that way, maybe to look like an easy target.
We soon become very good friends and we had a very good time together. Ironically enough I was never able to spend so much time at home with my family before as I had now with Yuki on my side. We nearly drove every 2nd weekend to my home to bath in the Onzen and make the boys crazy. I think it started out of a joke the whole N.i.N thing that Yuki continued to do later on during her time in America. We bathed nude, we run around naked … even in the village and demanded if the boys wanted to look at us they got to join the movement and get naked as well. It was fun, nothing serious, just us girls joking around and fighting the common roles of how a girl should beheave. It was fun … but the time was over to fast as reality catched up with us and Yuki had to leave to head to America. It was basically not her decision, even when it was her decision to do this, but familiar reasons forced her to leave Japan to get her head clear
Chapter 6: My time in America
But Yuki was not the only one who was able to travel to the USA. I had this honour as well, if you want to go so far and call it honour. Actually I was not able to visit many heroic and honourful americans during my time in the USA. It was really disappointing and the fact that I lost my first match over there didn’t helped me either to remember this place as a good one. Sure I gave my best and tested their women champion and pushed her to the limits, but I also knew if I would have been 100% I would have beaten her easily. I mean, I don’t want to sound as if I got a big ego, but I really could have done that. I mean just look at it, I was able to defeat their most dominating women champ and a few other big names without any problems and that was fun. The fun part was to prove that they got no chance against a Joshi. I am still proud about this, as well about the fact that I helped my best friend to promote the movement. Judging by the fan post I got, I did a very good job.
But beside that, there was nothing very intersting in the USA, well that might not have been the truth as I gained another good friend in Chelsea as well I *gasp * gained a love interest as well. No I won’t tell his name, just lets say he is one of the sweetest guys I ever met. He was cute, sweet and an awesome person, he made me laugh, made me giggle like a school girl infront of a famous movie star … I lov …. It was just great, a great time with him and this made my trip to the USA special. Very special.
Chapter 7: I am who I am.
After my time in America I started to realize that I was not happy with myself. I was not happy with my wrestling abilities, not happy with my own body and mostly I had to look for a new path for myself which I could follow. The wrestling ability part was easy to be solved, I have spend the next 5 months afte my return in the gym training. I trained new techniques and beside that I worked on my weight and strength issues. I was too thin and skinny for somebody of my size. I basically weight as much as most girls do at the height of 5´3”, but I am 5´10” tall. This is quite a large difference I have planned to change. I changed my eating habbits, trained more to increase my strength, basically some sort of weightlighting training. I gained a few dozen pounds (ok not so much, but I guess you get what I mean, I am not skinny anymore, but rather well trained) and increased my strength to be able to utilize my size better.
What I could do to find a new direction for my life was not so easy to decide or to find. But for what do you have friends, Yuki my best friend got pregnant and asked me to take over the leadership of her N.i.N stable and movement she has started to estabilate in JTL. I took over and sooner then later I actually started to enjoy myself in this new role. Having your own stable around you can be quite a big help in matches, but at the same time it’s a lot of work as you need to try to keep every member happy. I think I did a good job and beside that I started to expand the movement. I used the internet, tv stations, conventions to promote the idea and concept of N.i.N. It was not easy, but the followers of the movement grow constantly and I think its only a matter of time till everybody will understand that naked is nice.
Chapter 8: TNB??
Unknown yet