Dejimasama

Finally got burned with my picking Tochiazuma the last few basho, ahh well always next basho (In a state of confusion...)

;-) Looking forward to hopefully getting to test my luck in the top division next basho

Hi guys I am back and all is well here for me, been helping friends who lost much more than me. Thank you for all the well wishes. As for the construction question we do use a great deal of brick, mortar and concrete in our construction around wood frames often on the coast. Most houses can withstand 100 mph winds but when you see the insane destruction is from the storm surge, tornadoes spawned by the storm and winds in the 100+ range sustained for many hours. Well the majority of the houses built in the past 15 years are built strong on the coast, the older ones are lacking.

Hi guys, still down here with no power. We hooked up a generator so I got on line early this morning while it is only 85 degrees in this room to say hi and let some people know i am ok. We had a few trees down, one hit our house but no serious damage occured from it. They are hopeing that maybe today we can get power back but it may take another 6 days. We have a generator and hooked up the freezer, refrig and fans to it so all is as well as it can be expected I guess, we got phone back sometime over night. No real food though, just non pershiable stuff cause all the pershiable stuff well perished. I am pretty much out of work since the company i do the books for in Slidell was washed away and may take months to get it rebuilt so I have to find a new one sometime soon I guess.

Almost scared to say anything but Dejima is looking pretty good so far. He even had the upper hand in his Kaio match.

I would be overjoyed just to see him get Ozeki.

:-( Gonna miss Musoyama. Thanks for the pictures.

I am hopeing my 4-3 at MS4w is enough to finally get me in Juryo.

Slowly creeping up. I might make it to Juryo someday. :-S

Congrats for Dejima, hope he gets all that he wants

Yeah, I'm gonna have to say the same thing. Same boat

Ryu not all injuries are a point of just simply willing to not be injured anymore. Many a great have had thier careers cut short long before they were done in every sport. The spirit is willing but the body is not. Tochi in particular was running several miles everyday after his last injury to come back from it. He ran stairs and hit the weights vigorously. You will be hard pressed to find many in the sport willing to do that. Honestly I dont really question anyone's fighting spirit in the top ranks, one cant suceed on talent alone. To qoute the Hagakure "Having just wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefullness."

I have to disagree with this. I could hardly imagine someone questioning his fighting spirit with the injuries he has suffered. None of them have been minor, much like Dejima he has plowed through some of the worse injuries seen in the top ranks in the past years. I just dont understand how his fighting spirit can be questioned with the work ethic he has had in training in order to come back from these injuries.

Interesting read but cant say it surprises me at all.

You have to understand that the mon you see has been around in Japan for hundreds of years before the nazis gave it the meaning many have for it today.