Amazumo program videos

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About the Tairadate high sumo club

About Toki Takemoto (10, 85kg, 158cm), 3rd in 4th year at the primary school championships last year, special award at the Hakuho cup in 1st year - aiming for yokozuna

Edited January 28, 2022 by Akinomaki

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From January in the Budokan, with 2018 amateur &corporate yokozuna Kojiro Kurokawa (the younger) - an ms10TD q. wasted

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I wonder if Jamin will try to turn pro

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Good feature in English on college sumo, with a focus on Nippon Sports Science University and the 2 best collegiate competitors at the moment, Daiki Nakamura and Hidetora Hanada.

 

Edited February 23, 2022 by Katooshu

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On 26/11/2021 at 13:31, Akinomaki said:

an amateur rikishi (23) in Israel hoping to become a rikishi, waiting for the chance to go to Japan

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Mainichi video: https://video.mainichi.jp/detail/video/6283836814001

Still slightly off topic, he (ヤルデン・ヤトコビスキー - maybe Jatkowski, but brutally katakanad) isn't active in amateur sumo, there is no sumo dojo in Israel. His garden is his one, he does the basics there. He now made it to FNN news, after a few articles about him in Mainichi. He still has hopes, because of the rule that superior athletes  of other similar sports can join after reaching the age limit of 23

Edited February 23, 2022 by Akinomaki

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On 24/02/2022 at 04:27, Akinomaki said:

Still slightly off topic, he (ヤルデン・ヤトコビスキー - maybe Jatkowski, but brutally katakanad) 

Yarden Yatkovski

He's been mailing everyone and anyone even remotely connected to sumo for the past couple of years trying to get accepted into a heya.

Even if he wasn't already too old, he's never even put on a mawashi, much less taken part in a sumo tournament of any kind.

You have to admire his persistence but no one, not even he himself, knows whether he has any sumo ability.

Edited February 25, 2022 by Inside Sport Japan

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Special interview with Hidetora Hanada, who wants first to be Amefuto (American football) top player rather than becoming a sumo professional - that maybe later (he can enter till he turns 25, but will maybe have no TD qualification then) http://hochi.news/articles/20220305-OHT1T51278.html

His dream: both NFL and once again amateur yokozuna - he wants to go out into the world

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Interesting! Has he been in any football games?

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No, and he even had to buy pads and a helmet especially for the XLeague open tryouts today.

Those are at Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki and will be streamed here.

The CFL global combine also takes place in Kawasaki this morning but he isn't part of that.

Hanada’s favorite NFL player is Aaron Donald and at 183cms and 130kgs the 2020 All Japan champion is exactly the same height and weight as the Super Bowl winning DL.
 

Edited March 6, 2022 by Inside Sport Japan

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17 hours ago, Inside Sport Japan said:

No, and he even had to buy pads and a helmet especially for the XLeague open tryouts today.

Those are at Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki and will be streamed here.

The CFL global combine also takes place in Kawasaki this morning but he isn't part of that.

Hanada’s favorite NFL player is Aaron Donald and at 183cms and 130kgs the 2020 All Japan champion is exactly the same height and weight as the Super Bowl winning DL.
 

Average NFL DT: ht ~192 cm, wt ~138 kg; Japan XL-class DT: ht ~183 cm, wt 120 kg.  So he is well placed there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5566166/

Average 40-yd dash time at NFL combine (recruiting event) for players that made it to the NFL: Defensive tackles = 5.06 seconds.  So, good job there.

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Uh-oh.  He'd better stick to the X-League.

 

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Former amateur yokozuna Hidetora Hanada shifts gears toward NFL dream - John Gunning (Japan Times)

 

 

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He has 2 years left in college - will he complete these as part of the sumo team, or switch full-time to football I wonder? I also read that X-League doesn't pay players, and if that's correct I wonder how long he'll stick with it if he can't get a contract with a bigger league.

Edited March 12, 2022 by Katooshu

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8 hours ago, Katooshu said:

He has 2 years left in college - will he complete these as part of the sumo team, or switch full-time to football I wonder? I also read that X-League doesn't pay players, and if that's correct I wonder how long he'll stick with it if he can't get a contract with a bigger league.

He said he wants to become amateur yokozuna once more and it was reported that he can't play in a team while in university, so for now he'll follow both paths.

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Hmmm...I wonder if his results might be impacted by having this new focus on football. 

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12 hours ago, Katooshu said:

I also read that X-League doesn't pay players, and if that's correct

American imports all get paid. In terms of compensation and lifestyle for gridiron players outside of the NFL / CFL it's by far the best you can get.

Only one or two Japanese players have gotten pro contracts since that became possible. It's still technically an amateur league.

He wouldn't make a fraction of what he could as a sekitori.

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If he were to pick one sport and position that would allow him to keep his options open in Ozumo, it's being a defensive lineman in American football.  In the old days DLs were big slow mountains with nicknames like "Pork Chop" whose job it was to get in the way of the offensive running attack.  In the modern game they rush the passer, and must be simultaneously large, fast, and quick (with a lot of hand motion to get by the offensive linemen).  If he can pick up some of those techniques before returning to Sumo, and incorporate them into his years of Sumo training, he'll be a rude shock to his opponents.

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6 hours ago, Yamanashi said:

If he were to pick one sport and position that would allow him to keep his options open in Ozumo, it's being a defensive lineman in American football.

In terms of transferable skills, offensive line has far more overlap. There are good reason that almost everyone that both does sumo and plays football finds a home up front. Pass protection is a problem for some but run blocking is basically sumo (minus the holding).

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3 hours ago, Inside Sport Japan said:

In terms of transferable skills, offensive line has far more overlap. There are good reason that almost everyone that both does sumo and plays football finds a home up front. Pass protection is a problem for some but run blocking is basically sumo (minus the holding).

I get your point, and it would have been valid ten years ago.  But DLs now are different creatures; they can not only hold, but they are tremendously fast and quick.  I think an OL can make a fine rikishi, but a DL or DE would be something no one would know how to handle.

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A news feature about Rui Tsubaki (12, 115kg), who dreams to become yokozuna once. He won the national tournament as 4th grade, but no major event since then. His last chance, the last tournament in primary school, the Hakuho cup - he finished 3rd:

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News feature about 3 female rikishi from Kobe Shinwa women's university, which has no dohyo and no sumo club. Going for national top at the recent 10th international women's sumo select Sakai tournament, one made it in her weight class.

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Another kid from the Hakuho cup with the dream to become a rikishi - 4th year runner up Raizo Taniyama (10, 143cm, 51kg) - the final was against Okayama with 172cm, 110kg. A feature from Kansai TV https://www.ktv.jp/news/feature/0419-1/

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Instead of Raizo "Asashoryu Impersonator" Taniyama, I think I might call him Raizo "the Demon" Taniyama from now on, seeing that he's comparing himself to Hattori Hanzo......

Edited April 29, 2022 by mikawa

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He seemed to take that loss pretty well - none of the tears so common among the younger ones.

Edited April 30, 2022 by Katooshu