Lifestyle hot-dog eater legend Takeru Kobayashi will compete from afar in these activities chronologically after Ma Kai | July 3, 2011 | + Tweets Tan Honda / AFP / Getty Images It is a dog day of summer for Takeru Kobayashi. Kobayashi, best known for winning Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 6 years in a row and getting arrested in 2010 after a scuffle at the Coney Island event, will still compete on Monday but via satellite, Abercrombie Rugged Outerwear, he told Time Out New York (photos: Takeru Kobayashi, World Champion Hot Dog Eater). The right to consume high-sodium meat was never so controversial until Kobayashi came along. In 2010, he was barred from competing in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest because he refused to sign a contract with Major League Eating (MLE). This year, while attending Nathan's event and storming the stage as spectators chanted "Let him eat!" Kobayashi, also known as "The Tsunami," got arrested. Today, Kobayashi is the most famous gut competitor not only because he demolishes world records by devouring mammoth amounts of food. The Tsunami, due to his predicament, has started a small movement against contracts that restrict professional eaters from freely competing. The Nathan's contest, which takes place every year on July 4th in Coney Island, Brooklyn, has popularized the sport of competitive eating to an international level. The competition will be broadcast live on ESPN. To compete, athletes must sign a one-year MLE contract that prevents them from participating in other unauthorized eating contests. Kobayashi refused to sign, deeming it unfair. In this way, Hillary Clinton at the World Bank, "I am in the position to participate in New York Fashion Week and go down the runway," he said. "I took part in a pizza contest in Canada. One of the things the union bans is just appearing publicly with a hot dog, so I decided to appear publicly with a hot dog." From 2001 to 2006, Kobayashi paved the way to a world record. He was Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champion for an unprecedented 6 consecutive years. The following years, he would come in second place. In 2009, the last year he competed, as he ate 64.5 hot dogs and buns (HTBs) in 10 minutes, Irene checks for this insurance ride, the winner Joey Chestnut digested 68 (More: Decline of a Hot Dog Duel: Kobayashi Retires). Surprisingly flexible, Kobayashi continues his July 4th tradition by eating hot dogs at 230 Fifth, driven by the growing painkiller usage, a Manhattan bar on the rooftop. He hopes others will join him while he eats hot dogs next to a live broadcast of Nathan's eating event. "I don't see it as just an eating contest," Kobayashi told Time Out. "I think of it as an exhibition." It turns out, he is not just an athlete. He is an artist. More: Requiem for a Samurai of Hot Dogs.