New Recruits for Hatsu 2012

[Kintamayama 32,771]

6 new recruits, including the new Egyptian Boody (Sunaarashi? Daisunaarashi? Oosunaarashi?), who passed his Japanese exams and will be entering Maezumo in March. He will be the first African to join Ozumo.

[Kintamayama 32,771]

Oosunaarashi the Egyptian:

[Asashosakari 14,542]

I'll take the opportunity to get the "future Yok Osuna-arashi" pun out of the way early...

[ilovesumo 12]

Great news. Please forumers, root for him. :)

[Kintamayama 32,771]

"My dream is to become a Yokozuna. I will be the Middle Eastern and African delegate to sumo," said Oosunaarashi the Egyptian. "After doing real keiko, I fell in love with Sumo even more. I will do keiko earnestly!!" he added. "He does chanko and toilet duties willingly. Being a Muslim, he doesn't eat pork, but he has no other problems with the local food. He loves doing matawari and his enthusiasm for sumo is immense!" said a proud Ootake Oyakata.

Boody's idol Takanohana measuring him (1.89/138) at the new recruits' test, which he passed today.

[ilovesumo 12]

Article with Video.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20111226/t...4913021000.html

[Asameshimae 220]

So is there a link to see the names and birthplaces etc. of new recruits? I did a news search, but only found articles about Boody being one among 6. I am curious about the others, too.

[Kintamayama 32,771]

So is there a link to see the names and birthplaces etc. of new recruits? I did a news search, but only found articles about Boody being one among 6. I am curious about the others, too.

That comes a few days into the basho.

[Asameshimae 220]

Ah, I suspected that might be the case. Thanks.

[Kintamayama 32,771]

So is there a link to see the names and birthplaces etc. of new recruits?

http://mysumocorner.blogspot.com/

Wow- who is this guy? Excellent site and a wealth of information.

[Asojima 2,365]

Wow- who is this guy?

Jean Philippe Cabral

Thanks for the link, Nishi. I now have a use for my 50 yr. old French classes.

[Kintamayama 32,771]

No problem, but you know if you use Chrome as a browser it will translate the page for you.

Also Jean Philippe just told me that it's not his page so actually I've no idea who runs it.

Whoever runs it has great information sources. Actually, the best I've seen so far, far superior to say, mine.. He is based in Japan, going by his clock.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Kintamayama

[Randomitsuki 2,081]

Whoever runs it has great information sources. Actually, the best I've seen so far, far superior to say, mine.. He is based in Japan, going by his clock.

And going by the profile page, he is a she, lives in Paris, and calls herself KN - which, by the initials, could be a Japanese name.

By the way, the shin-deshi list comprises only five names. Did only five pass the first physical exam?

Edited December 28, 2011 by Randomitsuki

[Kintamayama 32,771]

Whoever runs it has great information sources. Actually, the best I've seen so far, far superior to say, mine.. He is based in Japan, going by his clock.

And going by the profile page, he is a she, lives in Paris, and calls herself KN - which, by the initials, could be a Japanese name.

By the way, the shin-deshi list comprises only five names. Did only five pass the first physical exam?

Six, but still, awesome sources, most of which I have never heard of. She is indeed a she I have been told incidentally and is French.

[Asashosakari 14,542]

By the way, the shin-deshi list comprises only five names. Did only five pass the first physical exam?

The empty row indicates the author couldn't find any information about #6. (Applauding...) Which also implies she's not using any secret sources most likely, just a very thorough reading of what's out there on the internet.

Edit: I don't see anything in her sources that I haven't used myself before, so chances are she's employing something similar to my Google News bookmark on "相撲" to track down all this stuff. (Or has the time to check all the websites individually...)

Edited December 28, 2011 by Asashosakari

[Toonoryu 1]

By the way, the shin-deshi list comprises only five names. Did only five pass the first physical exam?

The empty row indicates the author couldn't find any information about #6. (Applauding...) Which also implies she's not using any secret sources most likely, just a very thorough reading of what's out there on the internet.

Edit: I don't see anything in her sources that I haven't used myself before, so chances are she's employing something similar to my Google News bookmark on "相撲" to track down all this stuff. (Or has the time to check all the websites individually...)

I don't know about her investigative techniques on the web, what i can say for sure is that she doesn't live in Japan, but in France. Wish i spoke Japanese indeed, as that would be quite helpful for the article i always wished to (re)write about sumo and money. Sources are quite scarce on this matter (maybe Ozumo is as "shy" as French are about thosematters...)

[Kintamayama 32,771]

Edit: I don't see anything in her sources that I haven't used myself before, so chances are she's employing something similar to my Google News bookmark on "相撲" to track down all this stuff. (Or has the time to check all the websites individually...)

I was referring to myself-there were a few local paper sites I never even heard of. Still, we had nothing on the forum except Boody this time, as opposed to past bashos where we had a bit more.

[Asashosakari 14,542]

Edit: I don't see anything in her sources that I haven't used myself before, so chances are she's employing something similar to my Google News bookmark on "相撲" to track down all this stuff. (Or has the time to check all the websites individually...)

I was referring to myself-there were a few local paper sites I never even heard of. Still, we had nothing on the forum except Boody this time, as opposed to past bashos where we had a bit more.

Sadly, as I've spent the past five days mostly bedridden I haven't even looked at the aforementioned bookmark since all this shindeshi stuff must've started trickling in, and outside of you, me and madorosumaru it's generally not a high reporting priority here...

Not trying to take away anything from the blogger's efforts, of course - from what I can tell with my deeply buried school French those are very comprehensive write-ups and I'm the last one to doubt the time and effort that goes into collecting such information.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Asashosakari

[shimodahito 180]

thanks for the link...

another treasure of magnificento.

-shimodahito

TORCHBEARER 2012: taking entrees now.

[Toonoryu 1]

Edit: I don't see anything in her sources that I haven't used myself before, so chances are she's employing something similar to my Google News bookmark on "相撲" to track down all this stuff. (Or has the time to check all the websites individually...)

I was referring to myself-there were a few local paper sites I never even heard of. Still, we had nothing on the forum except Boody this time, as opposed to past bashos where we had a bit more.

Sadly, as I've spent the past five days mostly bedridden I haven't even looked at the aforementioned bookmark since all this shindeshi stuff must've started trickling in, and outside of you, me and madorosumaru it's generally not a high reporting priority here...

Not trying to take away anything from the blogger's efforts, of course - from what I can tell with my deeply buried school French those are very comprehensive write-ups and I'm the last one to doubt the time and effort that goes into collecting such information.

I'll gladly translate any intel you wish to have if you're interested :)

[Naganoyama 4,055]

NSK data:

SHIKONA	KANJI	NAME	HEYA	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	DOB	BIRTHPLACE
Hatakeyama	畠山	Ryota Hatakeyama	Oguruma	182	103	16 - November - 1993	Akita
Miyakojima	都島	Motoharu Tsuchida	Minezaki	188	76	19 - October - 1989	Osaka
Ryokizan	良貴山	Takuya Fukushi	Tatsunami	175	124	15 - July - 1993	Aomori
Sharan	シャーラン	Abdelrahman Alaa Eldin Mohamed Ahmed Sharan	Otake	189	138	10 - February - 1992	Egypt
Shinohara	篠原	Kai Shinohara	Ounomatsu	181	109	21 - August - 1993	Osaka
Takanishi	高西	Hayato Takanishi	Oitekaze	180	131	10 - November - 1993	Saitama

Edit: Miyakojima and Ryokizan Edited January 16, 2012 by Naganoyama

[Asashosakari 14,542]

Day 3:

Miyakojima (0-1) - Shinohara (1-0)

Takanishi (1-0) - Fukushi (0-1)

Miyakojima (0-2) - Hatakeyama (1-0)

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Day 4:

Takanishi (2-0) - Shinohara (1-1)

Miyakojima (0-3) - Fukushi (1-1)

Hatakeyama (1-1) - Shinohara (2-1)

[Asashosakari 14,542]

Hatakeyama (1-2) - Fukushi (2-1)

Takanishi (3-0) - Shinohara (2-2)

Miyakojima (0-4) - Hatakeyama (2-2)

Fukushi (2-2) - Shinohara (3-2)

I believe we're done here.

#1 Takanishi 3-0

#2 Shinohara 3-2

#3 Fukushi 2-2

#4 Hatakeyama 2-2

#5 Miyakojima 都島 0-4

[Asashosakari 14,542]

Ichiban Shusse:

Fukushi is now Ryokizan 良貴山 りょうきざん.

BTW, since it doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet - Takanishi is a product of famed Saitama Sakae HS and was a semifinalist of last year's National Inter-High tournament, so he definitely knows what he's doing up there.

Edited January 15, 2012 by Asashosakari

[Kintamayama 32,771]

#5 Miyakojima 都島 0-4

For the sake of future generations, Miyakojima is Tsuchida.