Full Name: Hidetada Yamagishi
Nickname: Hide
Place of Birth: Sapporo /Japan
Date of Birth: June 30th/1973
Residence: Los Angeles CA
Height: 5′ 5″ /165cm
Contest Weight: 220lbs/100kg
Off-Season Weight: 240lbs/108kg
Hidetada Hide (pronounced’ Hee-day’) Yamagishi was born in Hokkaido Japan, where is northern island of Japan. It is not big and modern city like Tokyo or Osaka but there are still a lot of nature. Hide always had been very active to play many kind of sports since he was a little kid, started with baseball, soccer, gymnastics, Syourin Kunfu Black belt, Judo then Rugby football. When Hide played Rugby football in high school, he finally met his passion, Barbell and Dumbbell! He had been always muscular since he was little but really skinny before started lifting weight but by the time he graduated from high school, he gained almost 50lbs of muscle on his 5-7 frame.