Should competitive eaters train at home?

Should competitive eaters train at home?

Arnie "Chowhound" Chapman (Competitive Eater) gives expert video advice on: How do you train for a competitive eating contest?; What is 'picnic style' eating in competitive eating contests?; What training techniques work best for competitive eating? and more...

Well, you know something? No, they shouldn't train at home. But I think the reality is, if you are going to get familiar with a food, obviously that's going to occur at home. But again, you shouldn't be eating at the pace that you would eat in a competition. If you are getting familiar with the food item you can eat a little bit fast but the key isn't to eat to the point where you're eating so fast that an obstruction will be created. Because if you're training at home and you're doing really long fast runs and you don't have a medical person that can supervise you, something could happen . It's rare that anything ever does happen but certainly eating large amounts of food at home, doing really fast training runs at home, could create a situation if you don't have medical person there.