New recruits for Aki 2018

[Akinomaki 40,703]

On 21/04/2018 at 11:09, Akinomaki said:

The first foreign high school yokozuna Amarsanaa plans to go to the new Futagoyama-beya. The oyakata: "He's during internship now, when it's over I think it (entering the heya) will happen."

Amarsanaa will be in the shin-deshi kensa for Aki - and start in Kyushu if all goes well. It was announced on a NiTere program with a part about Futagoyama-beya, still on air and available soon as VOD on FujiTV.live 003: 21:00h  しゃべくり×深イイ

Edited September 3, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Katooshu 3,317]

Our own Mikawa had Amarsanaa as the #1 high schooler of 2017, taking into account not only the Interhigh, but performance at various national tournaments throughout the year. 

When it comes to the other members of the class of 2017 to turn pro, Hoshoryu was #2, Naya #3, Kototebakari #20, Tsushida #27, and Tsukahara unranked. 

Amarsanaa has a Mongol-zumo background and is a belt specialist with a good mix of yotsu skills, like we often see with the Mongolians.

 

 

Edited September 4, 2018 by Katooshu

[Yubinhaad 11,741]

Azumazeki-beya also has a Mongolian recruit whose name I won't attempt to decipher: 18-year old ナサンジャルガラ チンゾリグwho joins from Meitoku Gijuku high school.

[Asashosakari 19,593]

36 minutes ago, Yubinhaad said:

Azumazeki-beya also has a Mongolian recruit whose name I won't attempt to decipher: 18-year old ナサンジャルガラ チンゾリグwho joins from Meitoku Gijuku high school.

Nasanjargal Chinzorig, I would guess. Doesn't seem to have made any waves above the prefectural level. For what little it's worth, here's a Facebook post of the Meitoku sumo club about him qualifying for a national high school tournament in the -100 kg class, and I believe this PDF by the Kochi prefecture high school athletic federation lists what he did there (reached the third round - not sure what placement that equates to, but must be last 16 or below, as they've listed specific round names from the quarterfinals onward).

In preparation for the Kyokai site screwing up the name order again - Amarsanaa and Chinzorig should be the given names.

[Akinomaki 40,703]

5 have applied for the shin-deshi kensa tomorrow, Amarsanaa is in the focus. http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20180903/sum18090318420005-n1.html

[Fay 1,677]

22 minutes ago, Asashosakari said:

Nasanjargal Chinzorig, I would guess. Doesn't seem to have made any waves above the prefectural level. For what little it's worth, here's a Facebook post of the Meitoku sumo club about him qualifying for a national high school tournament in the -100 kg class, and I believe this PDF by the Kochi prefecture high school athletic federation lists what he did there (reached the third round - not sure what placement that equates to, but must be last 16 or below, as they've listed specific round names from the quarterfinals onward).

In preparation for the Kyokai site screwing up the name order again - Amarsanaa and Chinzorig should be the given names.

 

We saw him in May while visiting training of Azumaseki Beya.

Here is a link to a little video:

https://www.facebook.com/martina.lunau.1/videos/vb.100000412083343/1907597209263997/?type=3

and some pics

Very nice young man. I talked with Chiyoshoma about him and we agreed that he will have a great career. 

[Katooshu 3,317]

15 minutes ago, Fay said:

 

 

Reminds me a lot of Asashoryu...

[inhashi 2,363]

5 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Amarsanaa will be in the shin-deshi kensa for Aki - and start in Kyushu if all goes well. It was announced on a NiTere program with a part about Futagoyama-beya, still on air and available soon as VOD on FujiTV.live 003: 21:00h  しゃべくり×深イイ

Sadly, it's blocked on YT.  Clip from the program of Amarusanaa.  I thought it was funny that the camera man did not recognize Hoshoryu's name. 
Amarusanaa:  "You don't know much about sumo ne?  Why are you interviewing?  . . . Please study/research it!" 

 

Edited September 3, 2018 by inhashi

[Akinomaki 40,703]

All 5 passed the initial check and wait for the result of the medicals. 50% foreigners this time, 2 Mongolians and a haafu (US American father): デルザト・コルヴィン龍我 Delzatto, Corvin Ryuga (19, Kanagawa, Yokusuga technical high graduate ) for Nishikido-beya, who rather thought to become a hairdresser - his mother runs a beauty parlor. He got invited to join sumo, and "I can do sumo only while young, become a hairdresser every time." No sumo experience (knowledge?) - 3rd in judo on prefecture level during middle school, but he not even knows the term Waka-Taka. "I want to know how far I can go and learn where my limit is." The rikishi he admires is Tochinoshin, who has judo background. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2018/09/04/kiji/20180904s00005000167000c.html

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It had been reported that he joins the heya for Haru (after graduation), then 180cm, 120kg https://www.townnews.co.jp/0501/2018/01/01/413546.html (that local paper was not in my robot search list then)

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apparently he has trained enough now to give it a try

the Mongolina duo Amarusanaa (183cm, 135kg) and Chinzorig

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Edited September 5, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Asashosakari 19,593]

Didn't think we'd hear of Corvin again after he no-showed the kensa in March.
 

On 04/03/2018 at 21:17, Asashosakari said:

On 04/03/2018 at 19:17, Yubinhaad said:

Much headscratching with this name. Joining Nishikido-beya is デルザトコルヴィン 龍我, from the judo department at Yokosuka Technical High School in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture. He has a mixture of Italian, American and Japanese heritage but is a Japanese national. Ryuga Delzato-Colbin?

Corvin Ryuga Delzatto?

 

On 01/03/2018 at 16:58, Akinomaki said:

44 have applied for the shindeshi kensa.

 

On 03/03/2018 at 11:18, Akinomaki said:

All 43 who took part, passed the initial check (one  absent)

 

On 11/03/2018 at 14:27, Yubinhaad said:

Well, I guess we know who didn't turn up for the examinations. So long Corvin, we hardly knew ye.

 

[Akinomaki 40,703]

First foreign high school yokozuna Amarsanaa (19, 183cm, 135kg) has a Mongolian father and a Russian mother, lived in the Russian republic of Tuva till age 14 and his father (a 2m man) is 3 times champion of Tuvan sumo Khuresh - equal to yokozuna. In 2nd and 3rd year middle school he took part in the Hakuho-cup, and Hakuho recommended to him to go Tottori high. He had thought about returning home, should he not win a high school title, now he wants to see how far he can get. "The same year members (Hoshoryu and Naya) are in makushita now, I want to do sumo (with them) quickly."

Power measurements:

Back strength 200kg - 20kg more than Asashoryu had, grip strength: right 70kg, left 73kg

the measuring will never the be same again with Akinoshima (Takadagawa) instead of Tochiazuma (Tamanoi)

o o o

Edited September 5, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,703]

Could be Amarsanaa - but looks too young: http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/33507-hakuho-cup-2015/?do=findComment&comment=274295

On 02/02/2015 at 21:53, Hakuhonofan said:

Terunofuji with a Mongolian competitor :

Terunofuji of course Tottori Johoku as well

I found no video footage or pics of him from the 2014/5 Hakuho cups, when Mongolian teams were at the Hakuho cup for the first/2nd time

Edited September 4, 2018 by Akinomaki

[Katooshu 3,317]

That looks like Dowrinji (?). Currently 2nd year at Tottori Johoku. 

Edited September 4, 2018 by Katooshu

[Yubinhaad 11,741]

On ‎04‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 12:46, Asashosakari said:

Didn't think we'd hear of Corvin again after he no-showed the kensa in March.

Same here. He also has a brother called Taiga, pictured on the right here with Ryuga and the okamisan. Maybe we'll see him somewhere down the line?

Banzuke-gai Yuma missed the best part of a year while recovering from a knee injury, but according to the okamisan he will be joining the maezumo action.

[Gurowake 4,096]

I wonder if the people responsible for giving him a shikona will notice that the name Corvin is extremely rare (I'd never heard of it before, but it apparently does actually exist outside of this guy) and comes from the Latin for crow (corvus).  No previous rikishi shikona has had the kanji for crow, 烏 (which is almost identical to the bird kanji - it merely has one less stroke through the middle of the top rectangle, and at normal English reading size I can't tell the difference at all because they're all scrunched together), or the combination of sounds "karasu", the Japanese word for crow/raven.

[Yamanashi 3,888]

8 hours ago, Gurowake said:

I wonder if the people responsible for giving him a shikona will notice that the name Corvin is extremely rare (I'd never heard of it before, but it apparently does actually exist outside of this guy) and comes from the Latin for crow (corvus).  No previous rikishi shikona has had the kanji for crow, 烏 (which is almost identical to the bird kanji - it merely has one less stroke through the middle of the top rectangle, and at normal English reading size I can't tell the difference at all because they're all scrunched together), or the combination of sounds "karasu", the Japanese word for crow/raven.

The name has been resilient. The famous (and legendary) Marcus Valerius (~370 - 290 BC) received the cognomen (nickname) "Corvus" when a raven landed on his helmet during a mano a' mano battle with a huge Gallic warrior, distracting his opponent and leading to victory.  The family name persisted through Imperial times, and was revived almost 1200 years later by the Hungarian royal house of Hunyadi, who claimed that the Roman family had extensive landholdings in Hungary, and that the Hunyadi were their descendants.  Matthias Corvinus Hunyadi was one of the most famous of Hungary's kings.

Helmets and Hungarians aside, many historians suspect that the nickname Corvinus was really associated with dark, jet-black hair, a color common to crows and ravens.

Oh, and another variant on the name gives us the current British Labor Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who never seems to have had jet-black hair.  Go figure.

Edited September 6, 2018 by Yamanashi
edited for spelling

[Akinomaki 40,703]

3 hours ago, Gurowake said:

No previous rikishi shikona has had the kanji for crow, 烏

I don't think anybody not from the Karasuma peninsula 烏丸半島 would use a crow in the shikona - also in Japan not a good omen.

[mikawa 1,794]

On 04/09/2018 at 20:17, Akinomaki said:

Could be Amarsanaa - but looks too young: http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/33507-hakuho-cup-2015/?do=findComment&comment=274295

Terunofuji of course Tottori Johoku as well

That's Aryuunaa Dawaaninji from Hokkaido, as Katooshu pointed out, possibly of Mongolian descent. He's currently a starter on the sumo team at Tottori Johoku.

Edited September 6, 2018 by mikawa

[Bumpkin 438]

11 hours ago, Gurowake said:

No previous rikishi shikona has had the kanji for crow.

What!? Doesn't Ikioi mean "crow"?

[Akinomaki 40,703]

1 hour ago, Bumpkin said:

What!? Doesn't Ikioi mean "crow"?

I Crow

[Michishige 66]

21 hours ago, Yubinhaad said:

Same here. He also has a brother called Taiga, pictured on the right here with Ryuga and the okamisan. Maybe we'll see him somewhere down the line?

 

I don't know if it's the skinny jeans, the professed desire to be a hairdresser, the blase attitude he expresses about joining up (i.e. "I can be a hairdresser later"), or his general appearance, but something tells me this fellow isn't likely to be around Sumo for very long. He seems kind of...soft. 

[Mihasan 13]

1 hour ago, Michishige said:

I don't know if it's the skinny jeans, the professed desire to be a hairdresser, the blase attitude he expresses about joining up (i.e. "I can be a hairdresser later"), or his general appearance, but something tells me this fellow isn't likely to be around Sumo for very long. He seems kind of...soft. 

Yeah, he won't last long...

[Naganoyama 5,945]

Perhaps he can switch to tokoyama later.

[WAKATAKE 2,671]

He obviously never heard what happened to Brody.

[Akinomaki 40,703]

On 04/09/2018 at 17:35, Akinomaki said:

First foreign high school yokozuna Amarsanaa (19, 183cm, 135kg) has a Mongolian father and a Russian mother

Power measurements:

Back strength 200kg - 20kg more than Asashoryu had, grip strength: right 70kg, left 73kg

for completeness the data of Corvin: o

Back strength 120kg, grip strength: both hands about 60kg