Shimpu

(Holiday feeling...) Happy birthday !!! (Holiday feeling...) Hope to see even more of your basho photo raports in upcoming year (Showing respect...)

Amazing. I've never expected it. Seriously his progress is simply unbelievable. First ozeki promotion and now yusho... sky is the limit. (Sign of approval...)

I'm terrible late :-) Happy birthday Fay !!! (Whistling...)

Better late than never... (In jonokuchi...) Happy Birthday! (Hugging...)

I'm a building engineer. I work on the field.

Thanks! I was pretty busy lately... Wedding, work etc. I didn't follow sumo world and our forum for a while.

Obviously creatine isn't any form of doping. It's a supplement. All amateur bodybuilder's federations accept this specific (I'm not talking about pros like IFBB because they do tests only against diuretics). I ate few packets myself - it isn't any secret weapon or something... I'm sure all top rikishi use real stuff like our good old polish Omnadren, Metanabol or even Anapolon (Anadrol 50 equivalent). You can't regenerate quickly without steroids. Injuries are part of sumo... Enough said.

Roho... (Clapping wildly...)

Awesome. They should put this pic into new sumo calendar or something. (In a state of confusion...)

Indeed. Total carnage ! I'm still standing though :-P

Nah. He is not ready yet. They know about it. J1W

For me it's pretty obvious that every single Yokozuna would be knocked out quickly on the K1 or MMA arena. Maybe not in the pathetic Akebono's fashion though. Same goes in the opposite direction. Every MMA champion would be kicked out from the dohyo even faster. Period.

Thank you. (Whistling...)

Yeah. :-( I'm surprised too... Chaingang - I'm already out. It's even bitter for me because firstly I've planned to pick Sakaizawa or Yoshikaze up but my second thought was "Nah... it's a first day I need a certainty." They both won. Tochiozan lost.

:-)

Happy birthday Fay ! :-) I wish you all the best. Have fun ! Happy birthday little Chiyo !

Happy Birthday ! ! (Holiday feeling...)

I participate only in two games ;-) Chaingang - day two :-D Guess the Kotomitsuki - probably 10:5 (I'm really proud of this one because I'm on the M3E spot right now so there is a chance for sanyaku :-P)

I have to say I'm very pleased with Yoshikaze performance this Basho. He gained some weight (135kg) and stick to his trademark explosive tachi-ai and fast low attacks from different angles (against Kitazakura, Takamisakari, Kokkai...) He really messed a lot of bouts recently because of constant Henka attempts. I like him offensive - he looks much better in Juryo. In Makuuchi he has no self confidence. Maybe this basho will change it. He still needs to add some more mass to support his tsupparis.

I think you should be aware that he probably called you a Jew because of some differences in languages. In Poland when you say Jew (Żyd) in 99,99% it refers to nationality not to religion. I think the English equivalent of polish Żyd is Hebrew (Hebrajczyk)... Jewish religion is Judaism... We discussed it before but... that's the way things go in Poland. Probably it's the same in Mongolia. Definition in Wikipedia also refers to nationality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew Sorry for off-topic.

Happy birthday ! (Shaking head...)

Yeah - German spoken by females is definitely sexy but in pretty aggressive, femdom manner - it suits perfectly to some kind badass chic in nazi uniform... like Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS... if we talk about sex obviously. Yeah. It definitely moves my imagination. :-S Japanese sounds sexy too... but similarly to Russian or Czech it sounds cute and naive as for me... I would say it suits to teenage schoolgirls...

(Scratching chin...) (Scratching chin...) Happy birthday ! ! :-D (Holiday feeling...)

I think this is a massage for all foreigners and natives to keep within the law of the Kyokai. We've seen few incidents lately. Two basho long suspension seems a bit harsh though. One thing is clear Asa have to face the music. Asashoryu is one of the greatest and as Sekihiryu mentioned these two upcoming bashos will definitely lose a lot of flavour because of Asa's absence. Anyway there is no Asashoryu without Japan and Sumo. Sumo can exists without Asa though. He knows it.

I think Kisenosato will get SW slot for sure.