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Beeswax posted:If a rikishi is a one trick pony, you have every opportunity to counter it. One’s tone mad about it This is why I don't understand the hate for Abi. He doesn't do anything illegal, doesn't intentionally try to injure people, and he always does the same thing every time so everyone should be prepared for it I like watching him lose too but I also don't hate on him. He's a one trick pony and that one trick got him to makuuchi so people need to just deal with it
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Fearless posted:Rolling things up in this manner suggests to me that there was never any serious intention towards fixing the situation, just a desire to draw out the humiliation and avoid scandal. Yep. They're not upset about the bullying, they're upset that it got exposed. And also they've been looking for any excuse to completely destroy Hakuho and this is it. They're still salty that the literal GOAT is Mongolian
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What the gently caress is happening in this basho? Day 4 was completely nuts
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Day 5 was pretty unremarkable compared to yesterday until the last handful of matches and holy moly
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I still can't believe that Ura has beaten 3 of the Ozeki
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Fearless posted:It's beautiful. I'm a devout fan of Kirishima and Hoshoryu both and it pains me to see Kirishima struggling this basho but I can't ever be upset with an Ura win. This is exactly how I feel
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Lid posted:Onosato is really really strong. Densha Sumo is the best sumo
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https://twitter.com/SarahLovesSumo/status/1769893251212079315
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Day 12 was insane The Oonosato and Takerufuji matches were so tense, especially because they both just clowned Ozeki yesterday But Welp
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I normally have a very good memory in general but something about sumo just wrecks it because I swear Kakuryu was already a shimpan Also wasn't Aoiyama the guy who was badly injured in January and everyone thought he'd miss multiple bashos and get demoted so far that he'd basically be forced to retire since he'd be returning at such a low rank? And then he came back this past basho and somehow did pretty well anyway? Or was that someone else?
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:My favorite tenuous mawashi link is Akua, his name and pleasant colored mawashi in honor of Aqua World in his home town Akua stopped throwing big salt this last basho 
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Kerrzhe posted:ok that is hilarious It's the funniest match ever
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I would love to know what Shodai's favorite anime is
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gently caress Akebono was literally the guy who got me into sumo back in '96
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Ice Phisherman posted:So I have to know, how did you watch sumo all the way back in '96? I was actually in Japan studying abroad for the summer  I wasn't able to watch every match of every basho after that summer but I was in college at the time so I could at least read results and watch low res clips that people would post I dropped off sumo once the woman who is now my wife moved in with me in 2000 and, to my dismay, I missed out on the entirety of Hakuho's career It's been really fun catching up on everything that's happened since I got back into sumo last July
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pseudodragon posted:July would have been a great jumping on point. Missing out on Hak's dominance sucks but coming in right at the transition is a good place to start. You already got to see the birth of 3 new Ozeki plus what could be a golden generation in the making with Onosato, Atamifuji, Takerufuji, Hakuoho, etc. Yeah it's been great so far but Teru got injured in July and I really didn't get to see him at full power until January The new Ozeki and the new batch of young guys fighting their way through the veterans have been a lot of fun to watch Also, Shodai
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Kerrzhe posted:the banzuke is out! Good
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I just hope all the rikishi have fun
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Just finished Day 1 loving Awesome Basho off off to a great start
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Looks like MidnightSumo is just done. I guess Twitch just doesn't want sumo on their platform for whatever reason. This loving sucks because that was the coziest stream for replays in the morning and the chill chat I installed the Grand Sumo app and it seems legit but there's no Juryo content on there and that sucks. And as other people said there doesn't seem to be a way to hide match result spoilers. It also sucks that I can't watch this on my TV But at least for now it's better than nothing and I can keep up with Makuuchi Edit: OK so it looks like there's Juryo content but I can't figure out how to find a list of all the videos. I clicked on "Juryo 1st" and got one match but I can't find the others. If anyone can help me with that I'd appreciate it because I really like watching Juryo too Elephant Ambush fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 13, 2024 |
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some kinda jackal posted:It's a little janky, I agree. Took me a minute to sort through the menus. Thanks! I'll start leaving some feedback too
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Bentai posted:IIRC he's going to see about moving to YouTube for July. The weird part, Karla_Sumoist and others are still chugging along with the same style setup that Midnight has, but hasn't copped a ban. I'm still thinking someone is intentionally targeting his channel. That's what he said last basho but I was under the impression that whoever was targeting him was targeting sumo twitch streamers in general but I guess that wasn't the case The stupid hand gesture thing before taking the prize money envelopes is one of those things that pisses me off about sumo culture. There was literally no good reason to make that hand gesture a standard. That gesture didn't exist for 1300+ years but some old retired rear end in a top hat in the 60s decided that he wanted to put his personal little stamp on sumo history and came up with it, and I bet he spent way more time workshopping ideas for it than he did on anything else at the time. As if we need to restrict rikishi self expression even further and increase the amount of conformity in Japanese culture. And I'm sure that guy, on more than one occasion, said something like "this new standard hand gesture will surely please the Shinto gods" out loud in front of some people and nobody pointed and laughed If you're new to sumo I would say that the first thing you need to learn is that the sumo you see today is a product of the 50s and 60s. They made a lot of big changes back then, including making the ring bigger and moving to a 15 day basho. There are people (not on these forums) who really want people to believe that modern sumo is perfectly preserved from 1400 years ago with minimal changes and that is pure horse poo poo One of the biggest sumo culture struggles you'll see is the fight between people who see sumo primarily as a sport, and the people who who want it to be primarily about Shinto and Japanese traditions and use sumo as some weird proxy for modeling how all Japanese men should think and behave Sumo is inextricable from its Shinto roots so you'll probably never see it presented primarily as a sport, and that's fine. But it's also really aggravating to people like Hakuho who is literally the GOAT and was constantly pushing boundaries and dealing with the retired Olds constantly telling him "yeah you won but it didn't feel right. you didn't win the right way". Fortunately for him he was so dominant that he could mostly ignore them but now that he's retired they're really trying to minimize his legacy in a bunch of bullshit ways I know this has gone off on a tangent but I'll post one final thing that new sumo fans should probably know: the JSA (retired rikishi who are on the board of decision makers) are turbo racist and they are white hot angry at how so many Mongolians are coming to Japan and out-performing some of the best native Japanese wrestlers. They are livid that the guy who not only holds all the most important records but also shattered them over his knee is not Japanese
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Log082 posted:SHODAI! 
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Beeswax posted:He is my favourite rikishi. His entire pre-bout routine is amazing. Same here. I don't care if he loses although I prefer that he wins. Regardless he's awesome. I love dudes that get hype and fired up and express genuine emotion instead of being the stoic silent whatever
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