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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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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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Apr 5, 2024 14:00
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Who should I, a new fan, root against Kotonowaka looks weird, can I boo him
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Apr 7, 2024 10:51
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What idiot called it sumo and not Salt Fat Mass & Yeet
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Apr 7, 2024 11:15
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Does Ryuden kick puppies or something? He seemed like a pretty good competitor in the tourney.
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Apr 7, 2024 15:44
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Great Muta and Yingling the Erotic Terrorist must be beside themselves. It's always a tragedy when parents outlive their baby boy.
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Apr 11, 2024 06:02
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This is only my second tournament so I've got a lot of questions. Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to take a crack at any of it: It's not without exception but it seems a lot of the smaller, more compact guys with more visible musculature are beating the guys with big overflowing body fat. Is this a trend? I think of Hakuho and Tochinoshin also being more visibly muscular. Does this have any different impact on the long-term health of the rikishi? What's happening after the post-match bow? I assume the winner is taking like a winner's bonus envelope or something? What's the significance of the gesture they perform? I think back to that bout where Hakuho just clobbered the guy with his forearm. If you can do that, why does it not happen more? And if you can throat thrust, why does *that* not happen more? Do we ever learn that various rikishi are close friends? Hated enemies? Is there ever any kind of insight into their lives past the highly regimented grand tourneys? Thanks again. Having a lot of fun with this! Nehru the Damaja fucked around with this message at 18:03 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 18:00
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Is there a better way to experience this than the daily digest from NHK? Is it worth watching with all the delays and stuff that come with seeing it live?
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May 13, 2024 21:31
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Shonanoumi vs. Shodai ruled.
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May 14, 2024 02:13
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Jesus this guy in a lower division bout was 210kg. I've never seen someone that big wrestle.
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May 14, 2024 05:37
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So catching up on the tegatana thing, this is literally like if golf spontaneously decided that everybody had to do the Chi Chi Rodriguez thing of fencing with your putter to celebrate a birdie? Like it is precisely that arbitrary and silly?
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May 14, 2024 05:50
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Takayasu has the best mug shot of any of them.
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May 15, 2024 19:36
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Shiroc posted:I really, really, really want Takayasu to get at least one yusho. He has the ability and skill to get it, he's just not getting any younger or less injured. Speaking of, is 40 the unofficial cutoff in sumo like it is in most sports?
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