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i am trying to contact Ken Coller concerning the DVDs of the bashos. I tried both his e-mails (don't want to type them here) but cannot reach him due to "unsuccessfull mail delivery". does anyone know a way to contact him? is the price for the DVDs the same as last basho (i imagine that a few of you guys buy them) ?

well .... none of the rikishi i support are in the first page. Damn ....

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I have to say that never in a hundred years would I have imagined seeing an image such as this, even if I was stoned. not a very rare pose for a pic by rikishi here's Tochihikari back in the day for example

i don't know if this is the right place to post this topic but here goes .... (Clapping wildly...) as i mentioned in the past i am completely illiterate when it comes to database queries. I don't know why but all these parameters in the query page make me insane and i barely ever get any results similar to what i was looking for. my problem this time is the following... i noticed the high percentage of okuri-something wins for Kaiho (not very strange though if you know his style of fighting) and i wanted to make a comparison to the rest of the sekitori (maybe include some retired ones too) and i wanted to avoid doing that manually. Is there any chance of doing this? please instruct me and i will buy you a beer when we meet. :-P :-)

that ... or she has the longest calves you can possibly have with a body like hers ... :-P

thanks for the heads up. This could be interesting.

nice to see Harumafuji without the ankle wraps. I hope he is feeling healthier and that we avoid watching him use weak footwork during the basho. also happy for Endo being picked for kawaigari. He is already one of my personal favourites from the roster.

i don't know if this change creates problems with some of you that you administrate stuff online but i find the new site a huge improvement. I like it a lot.

i actually submitted my entry to GTB. (Holiday feeling...) if anyone wants to have a laugh ... eeeeem .... i meant if anyone wants to see a newbie having no idea what to do with the bottom of the makuuchi i will post my entry here .... (Dribbling...) lovely stuff down there. i was actually thinking of making Makuuchi's lowest rank the M15w spot. This looks horrible (Wearing a paperbag...) (Raging at computer...)

That was the point that I was trying to make in my original post. My interest is simply to revitalize the adoption concept. If it takes a simple game to drag people into doing it, so be it. I probably will not take part in the game, but let's do something. that would be my target and also the reason i would participate in a game like that. And again .... even though i have already "adopted" 2 rikishi, i wouldn't mind adding another one in the family. So yeah .... even if there is a time constraint and a "first come, first served" attitude around it i still pick Aoto .... :-D. Or i will just stick to my adoptions and dream of a better life for both of them in the future. (btw .... where is the customary topic where we brag about our adoptions?)

maybe he just used water slides to lose the weight (pic taken from the Musashigawa facebook page)

Moti's post made want to enter this game for the first (and possibly last) time. I may have to idea how to make a banzuke and i never really bothered about banzukes in general (except the actual printed banzukes that i love and tend to get them once in a while). sooooo ... yeah ... this time around i will set the "Bar of Ignorance" for everyone by being dead last when the results come out. (disclaimer: My final entry will be made by using all "non-scientific" methods to get the final product)

the Harumafuji pic is just fine ... (at least for me)

i find his shikona rather creative ... i am just fed up with fujis, yamas, ryus and kotos. the Endo shikona tells a lot about the rikishi's balance. His Oyakata saw that in him and tried to use it for his name (randomly selected pic of a motorcyclist performing an Endo, provided by google) B-)

i know who i would pick if such a game materializes. I may have a problem n the "family" as i already have two adopted rikishi but i think we can work it out with some good "parenting" B-) (Gathering...) . so yeah ... if i could be on time when the picks are made i would definitely pick Aoto from Hakkaku beya. And i agree with Doitsu ... the game ends when all picked rikishi are intai. Same thing goes with all "adoptions" ... doesn't it? I don't remember anyone that stopped having hope in their rikishi ... (In jonokuchi...) btw ... i think i had 4 adopted rikishi over the years that went intai rather abruptly (Morioka , Daiyuchi , Hoshihikari and Chiyonoshima) ... not a good father after all .... :-|

Well .. this query prompted to make another one of my own and i found out that Kuniazuma (the Brazilian) is the rikishi with the most non-sekitori Yushos. He has 5 and the only other active rikishi with 4 are Goeido, Tanzo and Tosayutaka (he has a chance next basho to tie Kuniazuma if he gets the Makushita Yusho). Active with 3 yusho are: Aoiyama, Baruto, Ikeru, Shohozan, Jokoryu and Tokitenku . Ikeru could realistically catch up with the brazilian on his way up the ranks.

Thanks for the links. Lovely stuff.

kinda funny given that his wife used to hang around Miyagino in her schoolgirl uniform a few years back. Yep, have the photo and was there when her mother pushed her to the front to meet him after asageiko. :-/ ........ Doitsuyama hit the spot here.

so yeah .... not much have changed since i last posted here but at least there was something positive at the end. i got a sansho in Seki-Quad (Kanto-sho) and a KK (obviously). I also lost the shukun-sho in a tie but i guess there was a reason i didn't get that too (probably in the rules but i never read them ... sooo ....). I was also happy that i got 2 Ginboshi ... and i was surprised no one else did get any. biggest disappointment of the basho was the last day MK in Seki-toto. I cannot even remember when was the last time i got a KK in this game (i was absent for years though) in all pre-basho games i sucked ... (In jonokuchi...)

i cannot remember this far back .... B-)

from the previos champs we should also mention the uber-champ .... Kyokushuzan.

i don't think anyone mentioned him this basho but let's all have a moment and think about the best Maegashira around. Of course i am talking about Yoshikaze that finished this basho with a lacklustre 7-8 but was never in real danger of being demoted in Juryo. the guy flew through the bottom 5 divisions back in 2004-2006 and never looked back (well ... he did drop to the top spot of Juryo twice but that was back in 2007. Both times came right back with a 8-7) this basho marked his 6th straight year as a Maegashira (he never was a sanyaku) with just 3 missed bouts in all. That's 36 bashos in a row ranked from M15 to M1. not to mention that in the last 10 tournaments he is ranked between M10 and M6 .... that is a feat to accomplish. so yeah .... if there is a title for the "Master of survival-ism in the depths of Makuuchi", then Yoshikaze should get it. 7 1/5 years since his initial promotion and just 2 bashos in Juryo 1e. (Showing respect...)

thank for the clarification .... i always though "Yurt" was the name of the Mongolian tents. (maybe my educational sources on the matter were russian or just plain semi-educated western documentaries about mongolia.)

its another name for "yurt" the traditional houses the mongolian nomads use.