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anakha posted:I... may be in Fukuoka just in time to catch Day 14 or 15 of the November basho. I just used Buy Sumo Tickets and it was totally seamless, good communication etc and the tickets were delivered to our hotel. They'll take your preferences for day/area, I'm not sure if Fukuoka is set up the same as the Kokugikan with the 3 levels of seats but I'd trust them to keep you right. IMO the booths were great, being able to bring food and drinks in was well worth it.
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anakha posted:I... may be in Fukuoka just in time to catch Day 14 or 15 of the November basho. Hell yeah, I’ll see you there! I also used buysumotickets.com and have nothing negative to say. Very seamless.
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Kousei Motomura 元村康誠 (kid on the left) has joined Hidenoyama-beya (Kotoshogiku), should be introduced in May. https://twitter.com/boss_jonokuchi/status/1774751747002835357
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Bentai posted:Kousei Motomura 元村康誠 (kid on the left) has joined Hidenoyama-beya (Kotoshogiku), should be introduced in May. When's the match footage from?
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Brut posted:When's the match footage from?
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Bentai posted:Looks like it was from one of the Hakuho Cup tournaments, he was on team Kotoshogiku. I'm wondering how many years have gone by though, I can probably figure out how current age but how old was he in the footage?
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Some more hunting says it's from 2019. He won the technique prize for that win. https://www.saga-s.co.jp/articles/-/345646
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Bentai posted:Some more hunting says it's from 2019. He won the technique prize for that win. gently caress, time is still broken. Looked at that article that said the kid was in 4th grade at the time and thought "isn't grade 7 a little young?" Before remembering how many years it's been.
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https://twitter.com/sumokyokai/status/1775335523135148181
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This is absolutely cursed but drat if I don't want to code up a slot-machine style sumo face generator now.
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I just saw my first sumo tourney (or I'm most of the way through it anyway-- the March Grand Sumo as shown on NHK youtube). I had watched a little bit of sumo without context, knew a little from stuff online, etc., so I decided to take a diversion to watch Hakuho. Is all the stuff in the OP about that nasty forearm strike he leveled a guy with? Was he sort of a flashpoint of the push between elite athletics and all the shinto cultural project stuff? And back to the Grand Sumo, does Ura's pink mawashi signify anything? I remember hearing that purple was something you had to earn, but he's the only one I see in pink.
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I thought he chose pink simply to annoy the old men who run the show
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I've noticed a fair number of the guys with "fuji" in their names wear shades of purple, fuji (with a different kanji) being Japanese for wisteria (which has purple flowers). Maybe just a coincidence, but Japanese folks do love their wordplay.
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Sometimes it's wordplay, sometimes it's their school colors or something, sometimes it's that an expensive fabric was donated by a supporter. I remember Kotoeko used to use pink too, don't know if it meant anything specific for him, or if it does to Ura.
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Chris recently did a video about Ishiura and mentioned that he wore a gold mawashi that was donated by a patron who wanted to invoke the color of sand dunes in Ishiura's native Tottori.
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And Kagayaki's gold mawashi is especially fitting, given his name means "glitter" or "glow." I thought black mawashi were reserved for yokozuna, until that rear end in a top hat Ryuden showed up wearing one. Maybe black is not that exclusive, or maybe what reads as black is actually very dark blue or purple or gray.
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Has anyone demoted to juryo ever been financially ruined because they were living too high on the hog with their makuuchi money?
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Hirayuki posted:And Kagayaki's gold mawashi is especially fitting, given his name means "glitter" or "glow." I believe the only restricted color is white. Any other color is allowed for salaried rikishi. For practice mawashi, salaried guys get to wear off-white and unsalaried wear black, both in cotton. The only true-white belt worn on the dohyo is the yokozuna's rope.
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According to Tachiai.org, when it comes to Sekitori their competition mawashi must be either dark blue or dark purple, but the rule has been ignored by both the rikishi and the association since the advent of colour television, so really it can be any colour you want
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Has anyone demoted to juryo ever been financially ruined because they were living too high on the hog with their makuuchi money? to Juryo? Doubt it. The salary difference between Juryo and Makuuchi is not that big, it goes up a little bit when you reach sanyaku, but Maegashira rank wrestlers are paid (crudely converted to dollars) about 14 grand a month and Juryo about 11 grand. Probably tons of wrestlers who didn't manage their money well before dropping from Juryo to Makushita, where there is an "allowance" of around 1000 a month instead of a salary.
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Looking forward to the tongue wagging and pearl clutching when a rikishi debuts a two-tone mawashi
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Companies desperately pitching that there is tons of space to place ads on a mawashi and one day we wake up to see Cup Noodles on someone's crotch.
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Or we get extremely unlucky and the JSA decides to partner with sports-betting services after all and we wind up spending 20% of our time watching Sumo also consuming gambling advertisement. Just like the NHL!
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fanduel logo sculpted into the sides of the dohyo, fights paused so that the yobidashis try to rebuild it after a rikishi's big foot stomps through it while try to not get chucked into the second row
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Putting a prop bet on every Abi match for "will start with a two armed thrust" and then losing my entire life's savings when he pulls a henka.
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Shiroc posted:Putting a prop bet on every Abi match for "will start with a two armed thrust" and then losing my entire life's savings when he pulls a henka. bankrupting a bookie because I’m the one person who picked the right obscure kimarite for an Ura win
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one of the mainstream us online books (draftkings i think?) used to have sumo betting for like one or two basho . just simple who will win bets ofc. made a bit of money but they stopped for whatever reason
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My favorite tenuous mawashi link is Akua, his name and pleasant colored mawashi in honor of Aqua World in his home town  He did take on the Big Salt crown after Terutsoyoshi tumbled down the banzuke though, mad respect for keeping Big Salt going, cause that poo poo gets the people PUMPED.
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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 
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For all it's tradition, Sumo has no problem with selling out for advertising so if they were going to mawashi space, they'd have no problem doing it already. There's the kensho parade that's already longer than the matches, kensho mawashis, and they had the pokeball gyoji uniskkk .
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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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I always thought of akua as an imposter Chiyomaru so root against him, it's important to have arbitrary villains to boo
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Communist Thoughts posted:I always thought of akua as an imposter Chiyomaru so root against him, it's important to have arbitrary villains to boo I root against Onosho because he spent an entire basho not actually touching the dirt to start matches. Instead he'd wave his hands above the dirt and everyone just played along. It would telegraph his tachi-ai, so I'm sure jokes on him. He changed this, but I still root against him.
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Who should I, a new fan, root against Kotonowaka looks weird, can I boo him
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Ryūden. gently caress that guy.
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Nativity In Black posted:I root against Onosho because he spent an entire basho not actually touching the dirt to start matches. Instead he'd wave his hands above the dirt and everyone just played along. It would telegraph his tachi-ai, so I'm sure jokes on him. How do you feel about the tachiais in this video? Lets say the one at 4:02, but really pretty much any of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2HRTxqqcc
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Dead Goon posted:Ryūden. 
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What idiot called it sumo and not Salt Fat Mass & Yeet
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Brut posted:How do you feel about the tachiais in this video? Lets say the one at 4:02, but really pretty much any of them. Don't like that one bit. Has the rule for how this works changed over the years or is there basically no rule and this is all part of some ongoing meta game evolution? Comparing this to the modern mind games of who puts down the last fist is weird. And yeah, gently caress Ryuden. I also used to root for Abi until he pulled a Nativity In Black fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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