Motemakuru 26 Posted April 17, 2016 Greetings everyone! I was born in Japan in 1991, and was around 4-5 years old when I first started watching sumo. Little did I know then that I was in the boom years of the great Yokozuna Takanohana and Akebono - I just thought these were super cool big guys pushing each other around! Little me was so hooked on the sport, as was pretty much every kid in preschool. I moved to the United States when I was six, and totally forgot about Sumo for almost two decades, before out of curiosity I started watching again around the Aki Basho of 2014 (Ichinojo's makuuchi debut!) and got hooked all over again. In the tournaments since, I've done my best to gain knowledge and appreciate the technical side of the sport, and so I've been lurking around here and a few other places for a little while now. With the Natsu basho coming up, and my favorite rikishi Osunaarashi coming back from injury by dominating the Juryo ranks, I felt it was finally time to get an account.Looking forward to some lively discussion! 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swami 244 Posted April 17, 2016 Hearty salutations from the Swami! Swami Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hamcornheinz 839 Posted April 17, 2016 Welcome welcome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krindel 671 Posted April 18, 2016 Welcome to the forum! (Welcome...) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kuroimori 1,634 Posted April 19, 2016 Welcome to the forum and thanks for the nice self introduction! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naganoyama 5,467 Posted April 19, 2016 Your biography is doubly interesting as it follows the reverse of the route more commonly met on this forum. i.e. born outside Japan but moving to live in Japan. (Of course there used to be the wonderful Joe Kuroda, much missed, who moved from Japan to Canada, but it is still the exception rather than the rule.) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
egparis18 621 Posted May 3, 2016 Greetings from Paris. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
