Videos -Kyushu 2017- Promo and Days 1-15

[Kintamayama 47,374]

Day 11- A day to remember.. Back to lousy quality, but speed was of the essence today.

 

[Kintamayama 47,374]

Day 12:

 

Edited November 23, 2017 by Kintamayama

[Katooshu 3,485]

[Whopper Sumo Buzz 8]

Font day 

[Yamanashi 4,088]

Ichinojo - Goeidou: as they say in basketball, you can't teach height.

 

[orandashoho 720]

Today we saw Ichinojo A again (as opposed to yesterday's Ichinojo B) -- someone on the offensive, with initiative, not afraid of changing technique when something does not work. I wish we saw this guy more often. This basho has been a treat.

[Bumpkin 438]

7 hours ago, orandashoho said:

Today we saw Ichinojo A again (as opposed to yesterday's Ichinojo B) -- someone on the offensive, with initiative, not afraid of changing technique when something does not work. I wish we saw this guy more often. This basho has been a treat.

I prefer to call him, Ichinojo (Awake) and Ichinojo (Asleep).

[orandashoho 720]

4 hours ago, Bumpkin said:

11 hours ago, orandashoho said:

Today we saw Ichinojo A again [...]

I prefer to call him, Ichinojo (Awake) and Ichinojo (Asleep).

Or Ichinoslow.

[Katooshu 3,485]

But does that mean he's slow or no slow 

[Benihana 1,974]

Why don't we just say Ichinijo or Snorlax?

[Kintamayama 47,374]

Day 13, in glorious HD:

 

 

[Kintamayama 47,374]

And we're back to bad quality for day 14-these bad quality vids are best watched in "youtube size". much less fuzzier, of course..

 

[Asashosakari 20,297]

Tackling the backlog...lower division stuff from Day 10. Featuring a spirited back-and-forth bout from sandanme, one more in high makushita, a painful-looking post-bout flattening in a big vs small jonidan bout, and another big vs small matchup with rikishi you might actually have heard of (Akiseyama-Enho). Also the near-daily DQ loss - take note of perpetrator Kamito, he'll feature again on a later day.

And then we've got a trio of rare kimarite, namely the sounds-cooler-than-it-looks okurinage, and two that deserve highlighting:

 

 

[Kintamayama 47,374]

Final Day-thanks for watching.

 

[Fukurou 534]

3 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

Final Day-thanks for watching.

Thank you for recording, editing, posting.....

[Kintamayama 47,374]

An audience with Takakeishou:

 

[Yamanashi 4,088]

1 hour ago, Kintamayama said:

An audience with Takakeishou:

Hey, man, pick on someone your own size  ... er ... never mind.

 

[ALAKTORN 346]

This is the yūshō interview… can anyone pin-point me to where he addresses the day 11 monoii stuff? I didn’t catch it.

[Kaminariyuki 519]

Kinta-san, thanks for all the vids. Having been sucked in by one of your translations last basho, I refrain this time around. I do like your highlights the best of all the posted ones I've seen. I enjoy hearing the Japanese along with the bouts here and there. And, like a bit of nihonshu or shochu, a little wit is also well appreciated. Como arigato gozaimasu.

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5 hours ago, ALAKTORN said:

This is the yūshō interview… can anyone pin-point me to where he addresses the day 11 monoii stuff? I didn’t catch it.

Right at the start, 20 seconds into the video, after the interviewer asks him how he feels about having won an unprecedented 40th yuushou.

[Asashosakari 20,297]

If you're in the mood for a bit more sumo despite today's apparently gloomy news...lower divisions Day 11. Featuring a nice little battle in jonokuchi, a three-minute bout with decent amount of activity in jonidan, a nifty double turnaround at the edge, nice action for kachikoshi in the makushita promotion zone, and slap-pull-slap-pull-slap-etc.-etc. also up there.

Kimarite highlights: ashitori and kekaeshi.

And inline: A wild one from mid-makushita.

 

[Asashosakari 20,297]

And for Day 12: a merry-go-round, two minutes of gritty determination with a neat finish, frantic attack vs. equally frantic defense, skinny Hikarugenji being unstoppable, a spinning slippiotoshi, and Toyonoshima gaining his KK to great applause.

In kimarite: the best of three kubinage on the day, another kekaeshi, kotehineri, and a tsukihiza loss.

And the highlight: Angryface Kamito, fresh off his Day 10 hansoku DQ.

 

[Asashosakari 20,297]

And finally the last round of lower division bouts. Amongst the usual stuff Days 13 to 15 will include all matches involving rikishi who were 0-6 (if you want to know the most unfortunate participants of the basho), and those who were 5-1 and fighting for the big 6-1 promotions.

So, Day 13. Some nice sumo, but not a lot of genuine highlights. Worth a special mention are a nifty little bout at the jonidan-sandanme border, and a low jonidan match with a neat kimarite (kakenage) where the bout is pretty good in its own right.

Elsewhere in kimarite: another (but rather messy) kakenage, the second watashikomi of the basho, and yet again isamiashi.

A bit hard up for highlights, I've opted to inline the possibly most casual henka ever, courtesy of yumifuri Satonofuji:

 

Edited December 2, 2017 by Asashosakari

[Yamanashi 4,088]

So, what do you think the judges were writing after that bout: maybe "Satonofuji - hatakikomi - what a dick!" ?

[Kintamayama 47,374]

18 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

So, what do you think the judges were writing after that bout: maybe "Satonofuji - hatakikomi - what a dick!" ?

Tsukiotoshi, and who is the dick here?