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Everything posted by Yamanashi
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Congratulations on reaching the top of Sanyaku. I remember you from when I joined. I've always liked the picture with the big fish!
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Yeah, and the Japanese are renowned for their plucky "never say die" attitude, but if you're ten years into a career that peaked at Ms 85 and you haven't sniffed Sandanme in 20 basho, you're probably thinking about maybe a slot at your brother's trucking company. Start talking about "getting a kabu" and no one wants to do keiko with you.
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There must be a significant stockpile of that tea over at Miyaginobeya; they probably "gift" it to the Koenkai members.
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Agree, but that's beside the point. Most rikishi never make it to Makuuchi, so the topic we're discussing is moot. And the vast majority of those who make it to maegashira neither win a Yusho nor make Ozeki. Here's a study I did: for rikishi with hatsu-dohyo on or after 1960, 1) how many have a Yusho w/o reaching Ozeki? 2) how many reached Ozeki and never had a Yusho? 1) 2) I reached the copy limit, but there are seven Ozeki who never had a Yusho: Maenoyama, Yutakayama Katsuo, Asahikuni, Daiju, Masuiyama, Miyabiyama and Takayasu. All retired on this list (i.e. not Takayasu) have received kabu. Now, some on either list are "ronin" who never owned a kabu; I will let the cognescenti of this Forum determine the relative worth of these worthies. This tells me that the Oyakata opportunities are not cut-and-dried on either side. That leaves me with history and reputation, which for me falls on the side of the Ozeki. [Of course, the best way to play this game is the "Kirk cheats at the Kobayashi Maru scenario" approach: win a Yusho and get to Ozeki!]
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That's a nice take. Maegashira yusho winners will be remembered fondly and asked to speak about their experience after they retire. Ozeki's will be oyakata after they retire. One gets his lunch tab picked up, the other gets a career.
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Heya A-Z with (partial) pictorial history
Yamanashi replied to Naganoyama's topic in Ozumo Discussions
Is it because it's a long, tedious pain in the ***? -
I can't disagree about anything in Seiyashi's long post. It has slowly dawned on me, though, that when I read about or see bouts of some rikishi of the past, if I find they made Ozeki I think "well, that's a historic status." Sekiwake ... nice career. Aoiyama has a career high as Sekiwake. Historic (other than as a Bulgarian)?
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Now if it were already cooked ... In my imagination I see some young Jonidan, mouth open under the chute, gurgling "Oi...shi!!!"
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Sometimes I turn on the "Highest rank" tag and view old banzuke. It's amazing how many Makuuchi have Sekiwake as their high-water mark. Example: Natsu 2017 has 15 out of 36 non-Y/O who were or had been as high a Sekiwake in their career.
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The blurb says "don't miss the Fighters' Steak and the Victors' Steak". I expected sea bream, but maybe that's only seasonally available.
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I get your point, but if you're going to store something half the weight of a compact car, you probably can't get it all on a typical storage shelf.
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Thanks for the info. I guess the weight is my concern. 1000 kg = 2200 lbs. Guess it goes on the floor!
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Heya A-Z with (partial) pictorial history
Yamanashi replied to Naganoyama's topic in Ozumo Discussions
This project is very important as a piece of historical documentation, and I thank you for taking it on. [There's still some work to be done: several mismatches between names and portraits.] -
Remembering our recent thread about rice going bad in another heya: where is Tokitsukaze-beya going to store that much rice?
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There are a few great colleges in Oregon. If sumo is your goal, go to school there and train there. Hawaiians moved to Japan. Japanese kids pick a college that has a sumo program. If you're not focused enough to sacrifice your college choice to do Sumo, then you won't make it when you get to Japan. In that case, keep making excuses here like the last two guys and then drop off the list. With all due respect.
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I found the same Youtube you did, through googling. I have gotten an error message on all three tries.
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Those are the guys from the Genesis "Land of Confusion" video, right? Always found them vulgar and not very insightful (but I'm not a Brit); if you're parodying your warped image of a person, it doesn't ring very true. Pro tip: if you see your political enemies parodied and you think "that's not funny!" it probably isn't funny.
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Seems to be a German company. I can't read much German and no Hebrew, but: http://rga.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/brock_1-1.pdf
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September (Aki) Basho- offical thread (yay..)
Yamanashi replied to Kintamayama's topic in Honbasho Talk
All have shikona starting with T, all weigh more than Enho, all have wrestled against Chiyootori, and all have at least one foreign parent except for Takakeisho. @WAKATAKE, you magnificent bastard, I read your tweets! -
Don't know if I mentioned this, but starting in March I binge-watched various documentaries online ( I found I couldn't grade tests and reports in pdf format for very long w/o wanting to jump out a window). Time Team was a revelation! My wife trained as an archaeologist, and I'm a big history buff, so these were great. I must have watched 110 of them. (They did start to suck in the last couple of seasons). Lately, I've been watching Rick Beato's videos ("What makes this song so great", etc.) and a video series on languages and linguistics (NativLang). All of it free, free, free, and not a single snarky teen or moronic social commentary. My wife is smitten with Mudlarking videos.
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NHK's Begin Japanology did a show on this (poor quality sound, and all text backwards!):
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Yep. (TBH, I've never clicked it before.)
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You haven't been gone that long, as I fondly remember your posts and I joined in Sept. 2017. Glad to have you back in action, especially in the Haiku corner.
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Great to see a rare picture of head Nekogyoji, Shikimori Harokiti.
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That sounds uncomfortably like the old Wrassling theme of the unbreakable hold. I remember Kinji Shibuya's Claw hold and Peter Maivia (grandfather of "The Rock") with his Samoan Suplex. Problem is, those holds are fake, and someday when they break your unbreakable Yotsu, you'd better have a Plan B.