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I remember well these NHK educational sumo lessons - I have them on video tape at maybe the same bad quality

This channel has some other lessons in good quality, from a DVD from the (amateur) sumo association for middle school teachers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxySyG-XMdrGGNwhur6aDg/videos

Since martial arts lessons became obligatory in Japanese schools, there came the necessity to teach the teachers about how to teach sumo (of which most have no experience): if a school should decide to have it on the curriculum, instead of only judo and then maybe kendo - and others rather than sumo - but maybe the sumo boom will help to get more schools to try it.

Especially interesting: the beginnings of sumo

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Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumo Arena

Keiko - 55 minutes from 2014 (mostly the three yokozuna and Kisenosato, but others at the beginning and end) and 45 minutes from 2015 (a lot of different rikishi).

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from Shiroishi-city, Miyagi prefecture, about local yokozuna Ozutsu


first 3 other ancient Miyagi yokozuna, especially Tanikaze

keiko scenes from the present Oguruma-beya

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National Geographic on Asashoryu

The original voiceover has been replaced by commentary in Mongolian, I believe. There are bits of original subtitling in English. The image quality is good. There's Asashoryu doing Asashoryu things, including fighting Hakuho at the end, and there's some amateur sumo, mostly in Bowdlerised mawashi. Enjoyable even if you don't understand.

PS When I posted, the YouTube screen was grey, but the video started nevertheless when I clicked on the start arrow. Here's the link just in case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrygj53yH4&list=WL&index=42

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55 minutes of Akebono, in Japanese - no need to understand

The uploader, sumOtOri, has a good selection of videos on his or her channel, including long or longish ones about Kirishima, Konishiki, Mitoizumi, Takatoriki, Kotonishiki, Terao, Hakuho and Harumafuji

https://www.youtube.com/user/sum0t0ri/videos?shelf_id=1&sort=dd&view=0

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Konishiki having a chat about his life in Japan during and after sumo and helping/teaching kids. With Peter Barakan, 6th season of Begin Japanology series.

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A short silent walk from Ryogoku station to the kokugikan, then to the sumo-beya nearby and the rikishi statues around Ryogoku.

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This may have been posted before, but I stumbled across it on YouTube and thought others might like to see it.

Tochinoshin as a teenage amateur:

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That YouTube channel recently posted several whole NHK amateur sumo broadcasts of years back, from amateur yokozuna to national student and even middle school championships.

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For hispanophones.

National Geographic Channel programme 'Sumo School' in Spanish La ciencia de la lucha Academia de Sumo with some English subtitles.

Plenty of well-known faces to spot.

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A televisual young man visits Isegahama beya, gets taken out by Aminishiki to learn his skincare, wardrobe, manicure and handbag secrets and then Ikioi arrives and shows him his bicycle then sings a bit of karaoke.

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Mitakeumi special: Mainoumi looks at all of Mitakeumi's bouts from Natsu and comments on them. Very interesting.

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@egparis18: Could you please explain what is going on in those 2 videos?

Now to something completely different: I started watching the german documentation..."allowed is almost everything...hairpulling, hitting the opponent with your fist..." WTF?!?

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@egparis18: Could you please explain what is going on in those 2 videos?

Now to something completely different: I started watching the german documentation..."allowed is almost everything...hairpulling, hitting the opponent with your fist..." WTF?!?

They are practicing in public. And none of those things mentioned are allowed.

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@hamcornheinz: Thanks concerning the videos. I know that it is not allowed, i'm WTFing, because they say it is!

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