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Hi there, everyone! I absolutely love eating chanko-nabe. Living in LA, I have the gift of being able to visit Shinsengumi to eat it in a restaurant, but I've also tried making it with my girlfriend at home using a recipe we found online (I'm dating a lovely girl who is willing to try cooking anything). Anybody else ever make chanko at home and have particular recipes they like to use/that have worked out for them? Especially after I finish the upcoming round of tournaments and can go back on a bulking/strengthening cycle, I wanna try incorporating more chanko into my diet.

I doubt even that. There surely have to be quite a number of Americans to dwarf YMY. I don't know, man. Yama's not just corpulent, he's also pretty tall. I wouldn't be surprised if they were the biggest.

Thanks!

Ahhh, so THIS is what Yama was doing in San Francisco this weekend. Would you believe that he actually fits into the back seat of a Toyota Prius C quite comfortably? I've had to drive him a few times in mine, and usually he falls asleep because it's such a smooth ride. I think we've come up with Toyota's next commercial.

I am referring specifically to the context of the Japanese word "Shina" as opposed to "Chuugoku" or associated derivatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shina_%28word%29 Now back to sumo before I get penalized for being OT: I wonder if the Korean war had any similar effects on Korean-born sumo wrestlers, being changed from "Chosen" to "Kankoku" or vice-versa post-war. Then again, I think most zainichi Koreans around that time, at least in sumo, probably hid their Korean backgrounds, like Rikidozan did at least.

There are still people in Japan (mostly older people, obviously) who still use "Shina" to refer to China, which everyone else agrees is offensive/pejorative, so I wonder how quickly they'll adapt to Georgia over Gruziya.

As the original poster, you should be able to change the thread title by editing the first post. So I can, and I have! Thanks Manekineko!

Hi everyone, This post is for anyone who competes/trains/has competed/has trained in amateur sumo. I've been training for a year now, and have been lucky to get some guidance from former pros Daishochi and Yamamotoyama. Usually when I train with them, the practice is very Japanese-style, with shiko, suriashi, matches, butsukari, then ending with more shiko. Sometimes, though, I'll have practices where it's just a couple of us aspiring amateurs and no former pros. I was thinking about how when I wrestled in high school, we didn't always do just straight matches, we often did positioning and technique drills as well, and how it might be helpful to adapt that kind of practice strategy to sumo when it's just me and my training partners. I got Thomas Zabel's book, and it mostly just describes all the things mentioned above, plus a list of kimarite, so it didn't offer many suggestions on how to train outside of that. Has anyone else come up with different drills or exercises that they use in their practices asides from shiko, suriashi, and butsukari? Just curious how others approach their training. Thanks!

I think I might change this topic just to be a general thread about sumo competition training and strategy, because I had this question pop into my head: I'm on the shorter side of most of my competitors. I'm about 5'6". This can be an advantage to get in low under people's centers of gravity, but sometimes when a taller guy with a longer reach is able to keep me off his belt with tsuppari, or nodowa especially, it can be hard to recover. What's a good strategy for countering nodowa beside just getting my head in his chest right off the tachiai before he can extend his arm? My first instinct is to try and jab my hand into his elbow and shrug his arm to the side so I can counter with tottari, but that doesn't always work.

Asashoryu's brother is a pro wrestler and goes under the name "Blue Wolf," if that's any substitute. However, I'm not sure how active he is in Japan anymore.

This is going to be a very Japanese language-specific question, so apologies if this flies over most forum-goers heads, but this has been bugging me. I've noticed that, in various wrestler's shikona, there are several different ways of rendering the possessive "no" particle. - A hiragana の (example: Kisenosato 稀勢の里) - A katakana ノ (example: Terunofuji　照ノ富士) - A kanji 乃 (example: Takanohana 貴乃花) What you never seem to see is: -A kanji 之 (although this is used as "yuki" in many first names of rikishi) Is there any particular stylistic reason for this beyond a rikishi/heya's individual taste? Is this such an esoteric question it's not even worth asking?

This reminds me of how I sometimes accidentally get my hopes up when I see an e-mail from "sumofus" dot com.

You've discovered the sumo equivalent of MissingNo! Don't catch him, but if you defeat him by oshidashi you get infinite rare candies.

In this case it's not the possessive "no" but a word that literally means "field." It's the same kanji as the "ya" in "yakyuu" 野球 for baseball, lit. "field ball"

Ooooh, fantastic, thank you for this! I dunno if you can count this, but Yamamotoyama made a brief appearance in Indian pro wrestling federation Ring Ka King (as well as appearing in my avatar).

I think Sentoryu only did Mixed Martial Arts and kickboxing, not pro wrestling, am I wrong?

To sincerely, contribute to this discussion, are we just taking into account pure statistics or also historical significance? I think Akebono deserves a spot on the list if the latter. First Gaijin Yokozuna, first American Yokozuna, and he held the rank during a very fiercely competitive period. My two cents.

Futahaguro automatically makes worst Yokozuna for allegedly hitting his oyakata's wife. Just putting that out there.

It is used as a no-particle. http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi.aspx?shikona=*之*&heya=-1&shusshin=-1&b=-1&high=-1&hd=-1&entry=-1&intai=-1&sort=1&l=j But there seems to be no current rikishi with it. Only 1 active rikishi using it Hisanotora. Huh. Clicking that link, you'll find some rikishi changed the "no" in their shikona to a different one. E.G. 増之花 --> 増ノ花 Seems like it must be a case of "All interchangeable and all up to whoever's choosing the shikona."

Looking at the maezumo records for that basho, I think maezumo was running on a published schedule back then, so fusen were probably possible just like in the other lower divisions.Getting back to this for a moment - if I'm reading the ja.wiki article on maezumo correctly, the rapid-fire style of maezumo scheduling (what we see nowadays) was introduced in 1973 only for the Haru basho tournaments because the number of March shindeshi became very large, while the other 5 annual tournaments continued to use a "normal" schedule for them, with the maezumo style adopted for them later. (The article says something about July 1986, but I'm not sure if this refers to how the bouts were scheduled, or only to how the results were considered, i.e. no longer as part of the official record afterwards.) If I'm reading the article right, I believe they're saying July 1986 was when all banzuke-gai bouts, not just those at the Haru basho, were officially considered maezumo and thus would not be counted in a rikishi's official win-loss record, which, according to the article, causes debate among some as to whether Kototenzan's banzuke-gai bouts should be considered part of his winning streak count.

Because it was in the same paragraph as the word "diarrhea," for a second I thought the drink's name was "Unko no chikara," which would be an excellent name for a laxative.

Czesc!

Am I the only one who finds some parallels between Hakuho's dominance as Yokozuna and Anderson Silva's dominance in the UFC during his original run as middleweight champion? Two athletes who dominate the competition, and originally it's entertaining just to watch them completely clown otherwise formidable opponents, but then it shifts and the audience just gets bored/antsy to see if someone can get even CLOSE.

It's kind of funny how sumo is a sport where, even if you achieve the pinnacle of fame and success, you have to think of a plan B to keep living after you're done. It's kind of fitting for the Japanese spirit of humility and never resting on your laurels. "Oh, so you're a yokozuna? BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU GO TO LAW SCHOOL?"

In an attempt to garner younger viewers, especially female viewers, the kyokai is planning on allowing the idol group Morning Musume to participate in the next basho, all sitting on each other's shoulders, using the collective shikona "Asamusume." This comes shortly after the shocking revelation that Ichinojo is actually the entire group SMAP huddling together under a rubber tarp.