Araiso activities

[Akinomaki 39,770]

On 09/10/2020 at 14:21, Akinomaki said:

The first program from the 5th was posted today

10 minutes, without songs obviously, but with the CMs for CBD oil from Meiji foods, which is the sponsor of the program. The managing director was there as well, and an interviewing announcer. Araiso remote - less than half of it is talk by the man himself.

Today the 2nd program was posted, the first proper one. Araiso again remote, talked 5 minutes about how he began with sumo in 2nd year primary school, first hating to get that naked, but winning the tournament he entered without much preparation - that kindled his interest in sumo. Interesting that Araiso was speaking about 1.5 times as fast as the announcer.

The 2nd part, ask Araiso, had again the Meiji foods managing director, who asked the question(s) instead of someone from the listening public. In the end (not) the song, the theme of Hokuto-no-ken, of which he got that famous yokozuna 3 part kesho mawashi set, presently on display at an exhibition in Usa city. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/oita/20201016/5070008189.html

o oo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2clsrp-Dad0&t=65s

Edited November 30, 2020 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,770]

On 21/10/2020 at 19:40, Akinomaki said:

Today the 2nd program was posted, the first proper one. Araiso again remote, talked 5 minutes about how he began with sumo in 2nd year primary school

The 2nd part, ask Araiso, had again the Meiji foods managing director, who asked the question(s) instead of someone from the listening public.

3rd program, 1st part: entering ozumo till makuuchi, 2nd part - again not the public but the sponsor asks, about urakata and other people in the heya: Araiso says that he thinks of sumo as a team sport: he needs the others in the heya to train, the urakata to provide the surroundings, the team of tsukebito esp. for a yokozuna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85GRXi7X-g0&t=71s

The song selection was Toshihide Baba: Startline  / low-res with just the lyrics on screen (he proposed to listen to it while reading the lyrics). He had it performed live at the party after the danpatsushiki, when he was at the start-line as full fledged oyakata.

[Akinomaki 39,770]

Last episode before the basho, then he is busy. This time not web remote but on the phone. Part 1, since makuuchi and the change of name to Kisenosato, part 2, for the first time actually by a listener: was his most happy moment, like for many rikishi, when he entered juryo? Araiso explained about the change of worlds from below to that of a sekitori, but evaded a clear answer: he went so fast into juryo and then makuuchi, that he had no time to think about joy. The song, Ulfuls: guts da ze - last baseball game in school and he was injured and couldn't compete, his team lost, from the speakers at the school then, this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOd9j32Vysw&t=72s

[Akinomaki 39,770]

Araiso back on radio after the basho, on the phone again. About his rivals from the start in makuuchi, esp. Kotoshogiku. And the yokozuna to look up to at the start, Asashoryu.

Listener question: You wrote in your book that Harumafuji had told you, to become yokozuna, you also have to read books - what kind of books did you read, to what effect? Many, leaving the heya calm and relaxed.

Song: Country Road from the Anime Mimi wo sumaseba  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwD_pBgFvs&t=80s

[hakutorizakura 590]

3 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Araiso back on radio after the basho, on the phone again. About his rivals from the start in makuuchi, esp. Kotoshogiku. And the yokozuna to look up to at the start, Asashoryu.

Listener question: You wrote in your book that Harumafuji had told you, to become yokozuna, you also have to read books - what kind of books did you read, to what effect? Many, leaving the heya calm and relaxed.

Song: Country Road from the Anime Mimi wo sumaseba  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwD_pBgFvs&t=80s

That part about Harumafuji is interesting. Were they (kind of) friends or supportive towards each other? Somehow I got this impression from reading things about them (one particular instance is when H was really worried about K after that career-ending injury). Of course on the dohyo they were rivals, but I was not following sumo that time so I don't know their relation off dohyo.

 

 

[Akinomaki 39,770]

Araiso again on the phone for Kansai radio. 1st part: 4th youngest new sanyaku at age 19; first kinboshi, from Asashoryu.

Listener question: What is most important to teach to the young ones? With the obvious answer: the basics. Each one is different, has a different body, different style, so he'll guide him different. The thing to teach 10 deshi out of 10 are the basics, techniques are not necessarily taught in sumo. Shodai has an awful style, a high up tachi-ai and the chin high - things contrary to how sumo should be done, but because he is solid with the basics, he made it to ozeki.

Song: OP from the TV film series Kaiketsu Harimao, the version by Michiya Mihashi youtube_query=快傑ハリマオ 三橋 美智也

- it was sung at each senshuraku party of the old Naruto-beya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrcn1XpvDr8&t=75s

[Itachiyama 107]

Is there any information when his Heya will be opened?

[pricklypomegranate 730]

Fuji TV ran a "Sumo Greatest Hits" kind of programme just yesterday featuring Kisenosato and Toyonoshima. 

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1uT4y1N7eY?from=seopage

There are full of hidden gems I'm sure all of you will love, such as Daieisho's ukelele playing, rikishi doing clay pottery and, most importantly, Terao's boy band. It is essential viewing for all sumo fans, especially in this slow news period. Enjoy. 

 

Edited February 8, 2021 by pricklypomegranate

[Kintamayama 44,350]

He’s doing a commercial for Meiji for a cannabis based oil drink. Health Hemp Oil. 

 

[Akinomaki 39,770]

5 hours ago, Kintamayama said:

He’s doing a commercial for Meiji for a cannabis based oil drink. Health Hemp Oil. 

That's covered in detail in this thread - it is again in the news because now the use of CBD taima products is about to get more restricted: the makers of these products and producers of hemp see their business and traditions endangered. Araiso as their PR man is one of their hopes.

On 03/10/2020 at 17:53, Akinomaki said:

On 22/06/2020 at 18:02, Akinomaki said:

Since he retired January 2019, Araiso-oyakata is advertisement character for メイヂ食品 Meiji foods CBD oil 大麻油, slogan: the tsuna of a yokozuna is made of hemp http://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000001.000054872.html

2 versions of the CM - in the first, he calls hemp taimasou 大麻草 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nroiuxjj9f0

in the 2nd as usual asa 麻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkwKUZx652o

Taima alone is usually the word for cannabis as a forbidden substance

Version 1 of the CM with the national anthem as BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W0SZ_xFQ8I

On 11/09/2020 at 14:27, Akinomaki said:

Araiso gets his own weekly radio program, on Mondays 19-19:15h JST, except during the basho. Start on October 5th, at the Nagoya based station Tokai Radio www.tokairadio.co.jp: "Araiso-oyakata yokozuna life-way 人生道"

With a corner "Ask Araiso-oyakata" and presenting his favorite "yokozuna-life cheering songs" from his active day.

The YT channel of Nagoya based Meiji foods announced they'll post the episodes of Araiso-oyakata's yokozuna life-way for those who can't listen to the station, he's their poster character. The managing director seems to have close connections to the local Tokai radio, he posted a remote interview with Araiso about the new radio program.

Making of the new (nearly identical) CM

Edited February 18, 2021 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 39,770]

On 26/10/2019 at 11:02, Akinomaki said:

Araiso has passed the entry exam to Wasada university graduate school (without having graduated from university). Next April he'll start in the 1 year sports science research master's course. This course is for people with practical experience, independent from their academic background, if they have high level abilities in sports management or as sports coach. Araiso will study in between his work in the NSK. 

Araiso has finished the 1 year sports science research master's course, his master's thesis is about "A new way to run a sumo-beya".

"In a sumo-beya there only is 1 dohyo. During keiko, a long time is just watching. A yokozuna and children can't train on the same space."

"In the future, when I have a heya, I want to implement more efficient keiko, having 2 or 3 dohyo. Using video cameras and connect that to coaching. Having the camera at a 50cm different height, a totally different video results. I also studied which camera angle is more useful for coaching."

"In sumo, morning training is done on an empty stomach, that is done in no other sports. Chanko nabe is a supreme meal with well balanced nutrition, but before intense training, protein should be supplied, and then a meal afterwards. That is good for the muscles and avoids injuries."

"I would be good if a heya has it's own muscle training room."

"Due to Corona there were no dinner parties, less going out, I had much time for research."

"The costs of running a heya with multiple dohyo, training room and cameras are high. In a future heya, someone will have to search for enterprises that support these activities. Using the PC, knowledge of finances, it would be good if these things would be taught as well. Parents will entrust their kids to such a heya relieved."

http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGH177I80X10C21A2000000/

[Yaochozuna 137]

I wasn't a big fan of Kisenosato but this Araiso guy hasn't stopped surprising me. In a good way, I mean.

[Benihana 1,901]

Instead of a 3rd dohyo, i'd install 2 "butsugari-lanes". Who needs a round dohyo, when you're pushing in a straight line only?

[Godango 956]

Loving this from Araiso. If he realises this vision he could drastically change the game for the better.

[Kaninoyama 1,694]

Good stuff. Always been curious what would happen if a heya brought in a training expert from, say American football, and truly modernized training. 

Didn't Naruto Oyakata also promise to revolutionize sumo training through on his own sports science studies? As far as I can tell through the Naruto-beya documentaries, his main innovation appears to be adding ample Bulgaria-brand yogurt to the diet of his deshi. 

[Shinobi Steve 146]

8 hours ago, Kaninoyama said:

Good stuff. Always been curious what would happen if a heya brought in a training expert from, say American football, and truly modernized training. 

Didn't Naruto Oyakata also promise to revolutionize sumo training through on his own sports science studies? As far as I can tell through the Naruto-beya documentaries, his main innovation appears to be adding ample Bulgaria-brand yogurt to the diet of his deshi. 

Naruto seems to be having a lot of success bringing new youth into his beya as well. Maybe somewhat modernizing the training methods is having an impact? 

[pricklypomegranate 730]

1 hour ago, Shinobi Steve said:

Naruto seems to be having a lot of success bringing new youth into his beya as well. Maybe somewhat modernizing the training methods is having an impact? 

Yes, it certainly does seem like the newer oyakata that have kabu are producing fast-rising, excellent rikishi. A change is a-coming. 

[cyclonicleo 19]

I really hope he can get the funding together to run a heya just as he wants. That sort of innovation would be very welcome and could lift any rikishi training there.

[Seiyashi 4,071]

On 11/03/2021 at 17:44, pricklypomegranate said:

On 11/03/2021 at 16:22, Shinobi Steve said:

Naruto seems to be having a lot of success bringing new youth into his beya as well. Maybe somewhat modernizing the training methods is having an impact? 

Yes, it certainly does seem like the newer oyakata that have kabu are producing fast-rising, excellent rikishi. A change is a-coming. 

I'd hold off on that until Naruto pushes his first deshi over the barrier. His relative success points to a success of scouting rather than a success in coaching so far, compared to an older heya like Isegahama which has been pushing sekitori up at the rate of about 1/year.

That said I'm equally excited to see Araiso put his plans into action. It makes so much sense when you read it that you've got to wonder why no one's done it before.

[Yamanashi 3,724]

9 hours ago, Seiyashi said:

I'd hold off on that until Naruto pushes his first deshi over the barrier. His relative success points to a success of scouting rather than a success in coaching so far, compared to an older heya like Isegahama which has been pushing sekitori up at the rate of about 1/year.

That said I'm equally excited to see Araiso put his plans into action. It makes so much sense when you read it that you've got to wonder why no one's done it before.

Most of the new ideas I noticed from Naruto involved outside activities -- a yearly trip to the mountains for training with judo clubs and some wicked hard hill climbing, e.g.  The majority of that is off-limits now because of COVID rules.

[Akinomaki 39,770]

On 10/03/2021 at 16:29, Akinomaki said:

Araiso has finished the 1 year sports science research master's course, his master's thesis is about "A new way to run a sumo-beya".

Araiso's thesis was acknowledged as best thesis. http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20210317/sum21031720300019-n1.html

[Seiyashi 4,071]

NHK ran a feature on Araiso's ottsuke technique today (Haru 2021 nakabi), after the makuuchi dohyo-iri. Araiso spoke about how his famed ottsuke developed as an extension of a hazuoshi attack, but also highlighted the need for the right hand to assist. Using a car analogy, he said that the left hand was the engine, but the right was the handle; the left would be revving uselessly without the right.

He also mentioned that he used to be right-handed, but after fracturing his right hand in elementary school playing baseball, he started using his left hand more and more, and now he's in fact left handed.

[Akinomaki 39,770]

On 17/03/2021 at 17:27, Akinomaki said:

On 10/03/2021 at 16:29, Akinomaki said:

Araiso has finished the 1 year sports science research master's course, his master's thesis is about "A new way to run a sumo-beya".

Araiso's thesis was acknowledged as best thesis.

Araiso today received his diploma. The award ceremony was on the 26th, due to the basho he couldn't take part. http://this.kiji.is/749253654170501120

[hakutorizakura 590]

Harumafuji also got the best thesis award. Who won the word count? 

[Morning 74]

Look at those glowing apple cheeks.

Congratulations