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Kenning posted:If you think about it, we all go to Meatland every other month. I spent the past couple of weeks in Alberta with my brother, who has a real gift for grilling. Nothing like catching the back half of a basho while chowing down on a brisket he's had smoking for sixteen hours straight.
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Googling meat land brought me this https://vault.si.com/vault/1992/05/...-sport-of-japan Once again Japan is threatened by a mountainous marauder who mashes everything in his path. Once again the behemoth's thunderous footfalls have kindled fire storms everywhere, from the backstreets of Osaka to Atami Castle in Nagoya. And once again the overlords of this island nation are conspiring to stop him. Only this time the enemy is not a 50,000-ton, flame-belching sauropod named Godzilla. This time he's a human being, a sumo wrestler known as Meat Bomb. Godzilla, you may recall, was a nuclear freak who washed ashore after being loosed by American scientists. Meat Bomb, whose real name is Salevaa Atisanoe, but who fights in Japan under the alias Konishiki, is a Hawaiian-born Boogie-board freak who caught the sumo wave while hanging loose at Waikiki. "When I left home for Tokyo in 1982, I didn't know what sumo was," says the first non-Japanese to breach the top ranks of this medieval backwater of sport. "In fact, I didn't even know Godzilla had been to Japan. In those days I was into true-crime police dramas, like Hawaii Five-0."
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Lid posted:medieval backwater of sport. wow, gently caress the 90s sports media lol
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Bonus Sumo https://twitter.com/kasieko_9730/status/1686642667864969221 Kirishima in black, Hoshoryu in blue.
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Is Hoshoryu the best example of an active rikishi who makes the sport look beautiful? He's just a delight to watch.
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Kennedy posted:Is Hoshoryu the best example of an active rikishi who makes the sport look beautiful? He's just a delight to watch. I appreciate when he mean mugs his opponents.
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Kennedy posted:Is Hoshoryu the best example of an active rikishi who makes the sport look beautiful? He's just a delight to watch. I would submit Asanoyama has the most graceful and controlled yorikiri in the business right now.
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I personally think Hokutofuji has the sickest steez.
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Kennedy posted:Is Hoshoryu the best example of an active rikishi who makes the sport look beautiful? He's just a delight to watch. I've been talking about Hoshoryu doing hot guy sumo since November, so yeah I agree.
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Hoshoryu has this post match smoulder that I just find endearing. When he wins he just burns through his opponent with his gaze, but when he loses, I see wrathful indignation.
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Vargatron posted:Hoshoryu has this post match smoulder that I just find endearing. When he wins he just burns through his opponent with his gaze, but when he loses, I see wrathful indignation. That's just him squinting and trying to locate his opponent since he can't wear his glasses in the dohyo. 
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Thauros posted:i started picking him as my top s/k choice a few basho ago when it hit me that he just "looks" more like a future yokuzuna than any on those other guys in his group. He has really physically matured over the last couple of years too, solidly putting on 15-20kg and filling out his frame while keeping the variety in his sumo, has been very enjoyable seeing him get Ozeki. I just hope he goes better at the rank than the last guy I was cheering for to get over the Ozeki hump - Mitakeumi 
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hahahaha https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1687394557409763328
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I do enjoy how there is a running gag of wrestlers falling onto the shipman during some bouts.
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Happened upon MidnightSumo's Twitch channel during the last basho and now I'm kinda hooked.
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It's a great channel, very friendly for new fans, has a lot of !commands to help explain stuff, and a lovely discord community too. https://twitter.com/Midnight_Sumo/status/1687710967755390977 Not sure if this was from the last basho or not, but what a wild fight. Bentai fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Aug 5, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/witch0115/status/1688136980142665728 Tree having a bit of fun with Shodai.
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drat the jungyo looks fun.The Postman posted:Happened upon MidnightSumo's Twitch channel during the last basho and now I'm kinda hooked. Welcome to sumo and the thread! It's incredibly fun to watch and bullshit about. I hope you'll join us for fantasy in September!
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What are these spritely young lads chanting in their dohyō workout? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdXb2KpnAI&t=762s
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Vargatron posted:I think it's 1-2-3-4.
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https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d3b12efd7cd7b51a550dd7af86559ed5e77046ee Tobizaru collapsed from possible dehydration during jungyo. Took almost 30 minutes between him initially collapsing, and someone having the sense to load him into an ambulance and get him to a hospital. Deepl: quote:Makuuchi Tobizaru (31, Ottekaze stable) was taken to the emergency room. On this day, Tobizaru took part in makuuchi training for the first time during this summer tour, and after four rounds of practice, he clashed with yokozuna Terunofuji (31, Isekehama-Yakushitsu), who was heavy on his chest. After about eight minutes of practice, Terunofuji was rolled several times and pushed back, causing him to fall on his back and become dizzy. In the end, he pushed through with all his might, but he was unable to move, cowering as he stepped out of the ring.
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how does your pro athlete go down from dehydration?! this is the sort of poo poo i'm hoping will never happen at the new stables.
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Meatland does not endorse dehydrating your meat.
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Marching Powder posted:how does your pro athlete go down from dehydration?! this is the sort of poo poo i'm hoping will never happen at the new stables. idk ask the ncaa
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The Algorithm recommended this video, which is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3iow9Kn7g It's so weird to see them celebrating their victories.
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Bentai posted:https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d3b12efd7cd7b51a550dd7af86559ed5e77046ee 
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Average Lettuce posted:The Algorithm recommended this video, which is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3iow9Kn7g It's heartening to note Shodai's wins and losses look basically the same. Shodai has always been Shodai.
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anakha posted:Meatland does not endorse dehydrating your meat. Yeah that's for jerks.
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hailthefish posted:idk ask the ncaa Football in general has issues with someone dieing every couple years. https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/38122126/extreme-heat-poor-air-quality-raises-concerns-young-athlete-safety Big dudes, full pads and summer heat is a horrible combo. Article says rules are getting made, but a lot of times, not until someone dies and the organization is forced to act.
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Local university soccer has been taking things seriously for the last 5 years or so. Everyone wears chest strap heart monitors and once in a while there's sideline commotion, play is called and a player is yelled at to sit down and not move, then is helped off the field to rest, retire for the day.
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Akiseyama finally announced retirement, having spent 38 basho in Juryu and only 4 in Makuuchi he will become Izutsu-oyakata, I kind of figured Kakuryu was gonna take that name but who knows what shenanigans are going on with kabu behind the scenes.
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Aww man, I liked Akiseyama. He always looked like someone's chubby grandmother had wandered onto the dohyo on wobbly little toothpick legs.
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Marching Powder posted:how does your pro athlete go down from dehydration?! this is the sort of poo poo i'm hoping will never happen at the new stables. Not a pro-athlete by any means but I work outdoors year round and anecdotally, hydration is one of those things that gets you before you realize it. You don't get thirsty before you get dehydrated sometimes, during the summer months when it's real hot I have an actual hydration routine I use because it's easy to just keep pushing forward on what you're doing and not realize how much water/electrolytes/etc you've lost. I know that these guys should have people watching them for this kind of stuff but it is actually that easy enough to miss.
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Brut posted:Akiseyama finally announced retirement, having spent 38 basho in Juryu and only 4 in Makuuchi he will become Izutsu-oyakata, I kind of figured Kakuryu was gonna take that name but who knows what shenanigans are going on with kabu behind the scenes. Wasn't that the kabu that you had to marry the daughter of the previous holder for because their widow is the technical owner somehow? And didn't Shimannoumi marry her?
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https://www.sanspo.com/article/20230805-FBPUPG5I45J6ZDYGAAZKJQF44A/ Takayasu slipped a disc in his back during training, no estimate when he'll return. 
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e: nooooo drat you vertebrae gods why must you hurt my fuzzball so muchLucasar posted:Wasn't that the kabu that you had to marry the daughter of the previous holder for because their widow is the technical owner somehow? And didn't Shimannoumi marry her? Yes. They're stablemates. And Shimannoumi is at the basement of Juryo next month so it could get a lil bit awkward.
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