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I noticed someone, Onosho I think it was, tuck a little salt into their mawashi before the bout. I've never seen that before, is that a thing? Anyway it was perfect for him specifically because it was right into the little pocket between the mawashi and his belly button.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:I noticed someone, Onosho I think it was, tuck a little salt into their mawashi before the bout. I've never seen that before, is that a thing? Anyway it was perfect for him specifically because it was right into the little pocket between the mawashi and his belly button. He does that every time and it's why I always pick him for my team. Sometimes it poofs out at the tachiai.
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speaking of salt rituals, i was wondering how terutsuyoshi was doing and sadly the answer is 0-2 at makushita 5. dude's only had one kachikoshi since july 2021, gently caress
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May 18, 2023 01:27
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Akua is big salt man now I think
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Thauros posted:speaking of salt rituals, i was wondering how terutsuyoshi was doing and sadly the answer is 0-2 at makushita 5. dude's only had one kachikoshi since july 2021, gently caress 
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One of the things about Hokuseiho is that he's never had a 'real' make-koshi. The only time he failed to get his KK was when he went kyujo on the second day of Kyushu 2021. Other than that he's never put up a score worse than 5-2/9-6 despite his sumo style being "be huge and let them get tired trying to shove you". I think he's mostly got a case of "It's not broken so I'm not fixing it" and he's not going to change things up until he starts losing and has to.
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May 18, 2023 02:48
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I got to meet Kaisei at the SuMall booth just a few minutes ago but was too tourist-self-conscious to ask for a selfie. Super nice guy, but I’m imagining no one manning a booth is going to be a dick, so.. 
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May 18, 2023 04:00
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They're gotta have Asanoyama facing higher ranked guys pretty fast, right? He's not ranked low because of injury recovery or anything so it seems unfair to everyone else to give him a normal set of opponents.some kinda jackal posted:I got to meet Kaisei at the SuMall booth just a few minutes ago but was too tourist-self-conscious to ask for a selfie. Super nice guy, but I’m imagining no one manning a booth is going to be a dick, so.. lucky
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Shiroc posted:They're gotta have Asanoyama facing higher ranked guys pretty fast, right? He's not ranked low because of injury recovery or anything so it seems unfair to everyone else to give him a normal set of opponents. Clearly the script says that asanoyama has to stay undefeated for the first week or else the shimpan wouldn't have done Kotoeko like they did...
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Shiroc posted:They're gotta have Asanoyama facing higher ranked guys pretty fast, right? He's not ranked low because of injury recovery or anything so it seems unfair to everyone else to give him a normal set of opponents. he got borderline hosed out of a promotion last basho tho otoh and to me its' also unfair to give him a harder road back to the top than a regular rikishi at m14 would face. there's no perfectly equitable way of handling it but the good thing is that a really strong performance from him should see him back in the joi in july and avoid either situation.
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May 18, 2023 04:18
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I care less about Asanoyama getting treated slightly unfair because his situation was caused by being horny and stupid. I'd just think they'd want to avoid him being able to grab an 'easy' yusho.
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The ranking system only works if you follow the ranking system, is the problem. Right now the joi are all fighting each other. If you swapped Asanoyama up to put him against, idk, Abi or Ura or Tobizaru or somebody else you might consider a valid opponent for somebody of Asanoyama's skill, then who is their previous opponent going to fight? Right now, those three are facing Daiesho, Terunofuji, and Takakeisho respectively. Letting them dunk on a lower maegashira really isn't any more fair than letting Asanoyama do it. And if you say "well, he's former ozeki and he's clearly still got it, so we're gonna treat him like he's M1e and we'll book the entire basho like all the maegashira are one rank lower", that's really not fair to Asanoyama, because he'd be getting the hardest schedule despite having no room to fall if the sanyaku gave him a beating. The way it's working now is the best way to do it imo. It's the least disruptive to the system and he'll be in the joi for July and back in the sanyaku for September as long as he doesn't drop the ball.
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If he gets to around 8 or 9 straight undefeated they're probably gonna book him against some high rankers but that would be the case for anyone doing that well out of his rank, not just because he's Asanoyama
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Disappointed that the last time I’ll likely get to see Tochinoshin in person will be a loss. Both days I’ve been here, no less :/
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The square on view of Teru's clamps wrapped around Ura was absolutely savage, is it even possible to get out of that? 
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NTRabbit posted:The square on view of Teru's clamps wrapped around Ura was absolutely savage, is it even possible to get out of that? Depends on how badly you want to keep your arms.
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I might be biased because I was there but that was an AMAZING day of Sumo.
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Day5: Oh man, Ura just running headlong into the arm clamps was... a choice for sure
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Day 5: Asanoyama is doing well in the first part of his schedule, even if that match with Kotoeko should've been Torinaoshi. Onosho doing average, as he does. keep tucking that salt my dude! Kinbozan struggling at his career high rank, hopefully he can recover in week 2 for a KK. Wakamotoharu: Zensho-Yusho? props to Abi on the assist giving Daiesho a loss today. Terunofuji: first time watching him fight, big fan of him locking up and muscling out smaller guys and making big boys fall down with seemingly effortless grace. WMH v Teru is going to be a tough match for me
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Sekiwake are on a tear so far, with most of them possibly up for promotion, it'll be interesting to see how the rest of the tournament shakes out. I don't remember if it's been brought up in the thread but I stumbled across Sumo coverage on BloodyElbow, the Vox affiliated MMA site. Interestingly enough, they have full day video for the upper ranks and a nice little quick and dirty analysis. https://bloodyelbow.com/2023/05/17/sumo-natsu-basho-results-replays/
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Oh wow, it's cool they have coverage I didn't realize! Also hilariously their full day videos are just embeds of Natto's videos, so that's an interesting choice.
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I didn't realize that they were Natto's videos but that's hilarious. I wonder if there's a certain level of cover doing that given that they are part of a corporate media site.
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Tochinoshin is retiring. A sad but not unexpected turn of events.
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RIP sky crane, hope retirement treats him well
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Akiosan posted:Tochinoshin is retiring. A sad but not unexpected turn of events. I'm gutted
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Looking up Tochinoshin stuff led me to this picture from the mid 2000s of him and Gagamaru
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This isn’t the greatest moment of Tochinoshin’s career but it’s the one I’ll never forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fHeFA3nGg
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tochinoshin was one of my faves but sadly the most indelible memory for me was him getting hosed over by the shinpan in a monoii as i was watching at a gate at frankfurt airport
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It's real sad to see him go out like this but drat if it wasn't about time
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some kinda jackal posted:Disappointed that the last time I’ll likely get to see Tochinoshin in person will be a loss. Both days I’ve been here, no less :/ Yikes nailed it :/
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How big is Kaisei in person? My impression is that he'd feel gigantic but come off as so gentle and friendly that he wouldn't be intimidating at all.
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Shiroc posted:How big is Kaisei in person? My impression is that he'd feel gigantic but come off as so gentle and friendly that he wouldn't be intimidating at all. I know that's not exactly what you're asking but this might give you an idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l206kqgHPGY
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Brut posted:I know that's not exactly what you're asking but this might give you an idea summary: Kaisei is bigger than Tochinoshin by a lot
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He was seated but yeah, still a big dude lol Not at ALL intimidating though, super friendly 
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Adding “hug from Kaisei” to my Japan trip wishlist
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This is one of the videos that got me into sumo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_xmGrDgUA o7 Tochi
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https://twitter.com/sumokyokai/status/1659405992231333890quote:<Announcement of retirement from Tochinoshin> https://hochi.news/articles/20230519-OHT1T51073.html quote:Former ozeki Tochinoshin retires...35 years old, the first V rikishi from Georgia bids farewell to 17 years of sumo. Bentai fucked around with this message at 05:03 on May 19, 2023 |
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omg this woman has a sketchbook of hand drawn pictures of her favorite rikishi 
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