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I enjoyed that every article on that thing called it "life-sized".
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Sumo men scared the horses 
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Thauros posted:any horse with so little fighting spirit doesn't deserve a medal anyway
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Aug 7, 2021 00:11
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Horse would probably get spooked by the medal anyways. Better give it to Teru just in case.
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So uh, just to be clear then, the only appearance of Hakuho at the olympics we should expect is him sitting in on the Judo match? Opening ceremonies were a bust and I presume he won’t be doing a dohyo-iri for the closing ceremonies — that would feel a little.. out of place.
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Aug 7, 2021 04:04
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He'll probably be at the exhibition mini-tournament between the Olympics and the Paralympics, if they're still doing that.
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Hirayuki posted:He'll probably be at the exhibition mini-tournament between the Olympics and the Paralympics, if they're still doing that. Seems a little unfair but good on them for being inclusive I guess.
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If they let wheelchairs on the dohyo, I'm sure some wheelchair rugby players would be game. (Wheelchair rugby aka murderball)
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Elissimpark posted:If they let wheelchairs on the dohyo, I'm sure some wheelchair rugby players would be game. Wheelchair rugby dude: "That looks cool, can I try?" JSA guy: "What's that thing you're sitting on? Never seen one of those in this building before "
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pseudodragon posted:Wheelchair rugby dude: "That looks cool, can I try?" Ouch.
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pseudodragon posted:Wheelchair rugby dude: "That looks cool, can I try?"
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Yeah don’t disrespect the comically oversized rikishi wheelchair 
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awesome video from sumostew about a certain konishiki photo that while good will never make it to my avatar space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4GD-Sx2dFs
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If you wanted to read that report from a couple months back that that sumo panel did that proposed cracking down on foreigners and not letting Hakuho get honorary elder stock, an english translation has been put up. https://www.sumo.or.jp/pdf/en/Expert_Panel_Recommendations_on_the_Preservation_and_Development_of_Ozumo.pdf
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Talk about seeing the right signs, but having the utterly wrong response.quote:In Japanese society, parents now hesitate to let their sons join the Yes, I'm sure injury rates are up because sumotori are 'too powerful' and not because unlike any other major sport an injured rikishi cannot appropriately rehabilitate and recover from injury without being forced back into competition. The 'we finally employed a physician!' bit is especially sad when they note earlier in the document that the population of rikishi has been stable between 600-800 for decades.
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i've said it before and i'll say it again some time soon a stable master is going to implement modern day training methods such as limiting brain-shattering impacts, rest days, no weird abuse between juniors / seniors, dieticians, s&c coaches, relelvant cross training with similar sports, and they will see massive success in reality and be absolutely condemned by sumo as an organisation. there are immense amounts of beauty in the tradition of sumo, but they seem absolutely incapable of distinguishing between old ways of doing things that are good, and those things that are horrific.
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Trying to imagine what the new wave of Delta means for Aki. Just a gut feeling but I strongly suspect we might get another empty basho. The rikishi have had, at least, their first dose so I'm not certain whether out and out cancelling would be on the table. Probably not, but I'm mentally preparing myself for some more awkwardly quiet sumo  I got my friend into Sumo RIGHT at the beginning of covid -- his first tournament was the no-spectators tournament just after cancellation. He's never actually seen a full-on basho with full, rowdy stands. Every few weeks he sends me some clip from the before-times with some variation of "holy poo poo look at the crowd". It's cute and I can't wait for him to see a full stadium again 
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Liquid Communism posted:Yes, I'm sure injury rates are up because sumotori are 'too powerful' and not because unlike any other major sport an injured rikishi cannot appropriately rehabilitate and recover from injury without being forced back into competition.
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I'm sure this has been posted before but it makes me laugh
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C Y B E R H E N K A
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Neither of those robots will make Yokozuna. Blue robot fell for the most obvious henka, red robot will reach the higher ranks and have to fight smarter opponents. Both need more mass as well.
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Halloween Jack posted:C Y B E R H E N K A
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Enjoy this video of our newest yokozuna singing in a studio, part of a tribute to essential workers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0bPWQXG0s To be followed by videos of three other rikishi, as teased at the very end. Some of them, ah, sing better than others. I have to think their natural bodily resonance gives them an edge, like opera singers. (Plus the culture of karaoke means everyone will have at least one song they can perform in front of others.)
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Halloween Jack posted:Well, that's definitely part of it. For comparison, in 1920 a 250 lb. football player would be one of the biggest guys in the newly-formed NFL. Today, that's just slightly more than average. But other physiological factors like "skull thickness" and "brain toughness" don't scale up with mass, to say nothing of joints and ligaments. And like somebody pointed out, the tachi-ai has become more forceful since the 90s. Yeah, but if we're going that far back, your pre-war rikishi only had to do four honbasho a year.
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Hirayuki posted:Enjoy this video of our newest yokozuna singing in a studio, part of a tribute to essential workers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol0bPWQXG0s Poor Ikioi.
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ilmucche posted:I'm sure this has been posted before but it makes me laugh The hinkaku, up in smoke
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Did they, uh.. mix up the columns for advance sales and banzuke? https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnTicket/year_schedule/ Seems weird that Banzuke would be after advance ticket sales, but also so close to the tournament. E: Nope, I guess that’s the way it is. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Maybe they're giving themselves as much time as possible to push Hakuho into retirement, given his recent "indiscretions"? Or trying to push out ticket sales before COVID cases get bad enough they can't have a crowd.
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bartolimu posted:Maybe they're giving themselves as much time as possible to push Hakuho into retirement, given his recent "indiscretions"? Or trying to push out ticket sales before COVID cases get bad enough they can't have a crowd. Nah the schedule's always like that, the rankings come out on a Monday morning 2 weeks before the basho starts, I don't think too many people are making the decision to go vs not go to a basho because a particular wrestler did or did not get promoted. The schedule page extends through 2023 so you can see the schedule isn't any different for other years.
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Yeah I honestly just didn’t do much checking on when the other banzuke came out. I thought it was earlier in my head but obviously I’m wrong 
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2021/08/12/sumo/sumo-olympics-hakuho/ Article on how Sumo wasted the Olympics.
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Brut posted:Nah the schedule's always like that, the rankings come out on a Monday morning 2 weeks before the basho starts, I don't think too many people are making the decision to go vs not go to a basho because a particular wrestler did or did not get promoted. The schedule page extends through 2023 so you can see the schedule isn't any different for other years. Oh poo poo is the next basho that close? I'm still going through highlights of the July one. I've been watching Chris Sumo on youtube, I know Jason's Sumo Channel is recommended but that seems to have less coverage of the individual days?
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Memento posted:Oh poo poo is the next basho that close? I'm still going through highlights of the July one. With the exception of the rare schedule change for things like the Olympics or covid, basho start on the second Sunday of each odd month, so the 8th at the earliest and the 14th at the latest. Since it's the 14th as I write this, (early morning in the US and evening in Japan), we're a little under a month from the next one, and thus a little under 2 weeks before the banzuke is announced. Jason usually only covers the last few matches of most days, but this basho he went back to America to visit his father who's health is failing, so he was not around for the second half of the tournament to point his ipad at his television as he usually does. At the time of his leaving it was still unclear when he'd be able to re-enter Japan, I don't know if that situation has since changed. Edit: Looks like Jason laded in Japan a few days ago, I'm assuming that means he'll be around for the September basho. Brut fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Aug 16, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/AsahiYamabeya/status/1427261568727670788 Sumo pets
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The Monday after next Monday. (So Sunday evening if you're in the US)
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This is Chiyomaru in the eyes of the Sumo magnet caricaturist, which is perfect
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Shiroc posted:This is Chiyomaru in the eyes of the Sumo magnet caricaturist, which is perfect is this yours? pretty soon you're going to be able to open up your house as a tourist spot for sumo weirdos
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Shiroc posted:This is Chiyomaru in the eyes of the Sumo magnet caricaturist, which is perfect it never hit me until seeing the kanji how appropriate it was that he has 丸 in his name and according to wiki his oyakata agrees quote:Chiyomaru was judged by his appearance of his big, round belly when given the shikona of Chiyomaru which literally means ‘Eternally round’ in Japanese.
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