How to Make Your Own Sumotori Stage
- 1). Mark off using chalk a circle with a diameter of 14.8 feet, the regulation size for a sumo stage.
- 2). Fill the circle with bales of bound rice straw about 1 foot high. You can use bound hay bales if rice straw is unavailable.
- 3). Pack the bales as tightly as possible so there is no space between bales.
- 4). Cover the top of the stage with a layer of fine sand about 6 inches thick.
- 5). Place mats or some other protective layer around the perimeter of the stage to cushion against injury if a sumotori is pushed out of the ring.
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