rhythm interview on joining JTO and her lifelong health issues
>Repeated hospitalizations, experiencing dialysis— >the path a sickly young girl walked to become a pro wrestler: >“I realized you can move people’s hearts without even touching them.”>A masked deathmatch-leaning women’s wrestler once posted this on social media: people often tell her “What a waste of such a pretty body.” She added, “Because of childhood dialysis and all sorts of things, I’ve been patchwork from way back” (sic). Indeed, rhythm of JUST TAP OUT has overcome numerous physical hardships in the 24 years of her life. And the view of life and death she reached beyond all that is… a little unique. In this first part, we ask rhythm about how she relates to her own body—her first encounters with pro wrestling and the physical troubles of her childhood....
>My mom runs a restaurant, and back then the promotion was asking for places that would put up posters, so we applied—and the promoter himself came. My family is tall: my dad is 183 cm, my mom 173, my brother 186. So when he saw me—a first-year high-schooler—he said, ‘You’re going to get tall too, why don’t you become a pro wrestler?’ My parents were totally against it, of course. My body is my body, after all. Watching is fine, but doing it? No way. So I started like a club activity, practicing once a week with an amateur wrestling group.”>In 2019, TAKA launched JUST TAP OUT. Rhythm, now in her third year of high school, was invited to step onto the path of becoming a pro wrestler. But as mentioned, the issue was “my body is my body.”...
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