Doglegs disabled wrestling, Dec 2008 (33 images)

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Doglegs is a Tokyo wrestling group that includes both disabled and non-disabled wrestlers. Thera are wrestlers with handicaps such as mental disabilities, sight and hearing impairments, and cerebral palsy.
  • Spectators watch a wrestling bout. 350 people attended the event, the 76th organized by the Doglegs wrestling group.

  • Yukinori Kitajima, co-founder of Doglegs. Wrestlers warm up in the background. Able-bodied Kitajima wrestles under the name "Antithesis Kitajima".

  • Shin Ohdama. Has practiced wrestling, judo and karate since high school. His left leg was amputated due to diabetes.

  • Shin Ohdama. Has practiced wrestling, judo and karate since high school. His left leg was amputated due to diabetes.

  • Shin Ohdama. He has practiced wrestling, judo and karate since high school. His left leg was amputated due to diabetes.

  • Shin Ohdama receives treatment for a cut to the eye. He has practiced wrestling, judo and karate since high school. His left leg was amputated due to diabetes.

  • A wrestler poses while warming up before the competition.

  • A wrestler takes a break after the warm-up.

  • A wrestler enters the ring. He has a hearing impairment.

  • A wrestler warming up. He has a hearing impairment.

  • A wrestler who uses a wheelchair is helped into the ring before his bout. Any level of disability is OK for wrestlers.

  • A wrestler is helped into the ring before his bout. Any level of disability is OK for wrestlers.

  • Wrestlers (left to right) "L'amant" "E.T" and "Orochi". All three suffer from cerebral palsy. Only attacks to their afflicted areas are disallowed.

  • Wrestlers (left to right) "L'amant" "E.T" and "Orochi". All three suffer from cerebral palsy. Only attacks to their afflicted areas are disallowed.

  • Wrestlers (left to right) "Orochi" "L'amant" and "E.T". All three suffer from cerebral palsy. Only attacks to their afflicted areas are disallowed.

  • "Orochi" chops "ET" in the neck. Both wrestlers suffer from cerebral palsy. Only attacks to afflicted areas are not allowed.

  • "E.T." is on the ropes as referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches .

  • "E.T." is on the ropes as referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches .

  • "Orochi" and "E.T." grapple as referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches.

  • ET is helped out of the ring.

  • "Yokkoisho" fights with Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy". Both wrestlers suffer from cerebral palsy. Referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches on.

  • "Yokkoisho" fights with Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy". Both wrestlers suffer from cerebral palsy. Referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches on.

  • "Yokkoisho" fights with Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy". Both wrestlers suffer from cerebral palsy. Referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches on.

  • Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy" has a drink during the break.

  • "Yokkoisho" fights with Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy". Both wrestlers suffer from cerebral palsy. Referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches on

  • Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy" is helped out of the ring.

  • Makoto Tsuruzono. He is disabled by a spinal cord injury and uses a wheelchair. He won the bout when his opponent suffered a bad eye injury. He has blood on his arm.

  • Makoto Tsuruzono. He is disabled by a spinal cord injury and uses a wheelchair. He won the bout when his opponent suffered a bad eye injury.

  • Referee Shinsuke Funabashi. He is holding a card saying "break" which he uses during bouts involving wrestlers with hearing disabilities.

  • Shin Ohdama enters the ring. He has practiced wrestling, judo and karate since high school. His left leg was amputated due to diabetes.

  • Shin Ohdama receives treatment for a cut to the eye. He has practiced wrestling, judo and karate since high school. His left leg was amputated due to diabetes.

  • A wrestler takes a break after the warm-up.

  • "Yokkoisho" fights with Yasuhiro Kayahara, AKA "No Sympathy". Both wrestlers suffer from cerebral palsy. Referee Shinsuke Funabashi watches on.

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