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The options in the polls don't really fit with what I would have in mind. I'd pay ~25€/basho for access to a video archive with the bouts of the current basho. I'd think it would be fair to charge something extra but not to much for older footage.

"残念てす。すごく残念。 120ドル？高すぎ！ドイツから見た、ほとんど毎日。 Please save the foreign osumo community!" Nihon Sumo Kyokai likes that‹

Lets hope Asashoryu didn't get soft since his retirement. I'd bet on Hakuho.

Harumafuji is too light to do sumo like Kisenosato (which is what I think they meant with yokozuna-like sumo: straight forward strength and weight based sumo).

Does anyone know how many have applied so far?

If I remember it correctly, this is the right answer. Correct: http://www.icts.uiowa.edu/content/bod-pod%C2%AE

Probably a one-man-sauna.

Great set! Thanks for sharing

I didn't know fracture and broken bone are the same thing: http://manhattanorthopedic.com/2012/01/sticks-and-stones-may-break-our-bones-but-what-exactly-is-a-fracture/ Thats bad :(

Maybe that was the goal ^^

Might have been cooincidence, because when we arrived we were apporached by a woman from the kokugikan (I assumed because we were gaijin) that spoke some english and wanted to help us. We showed her our tickets to get to know where to go etc. ... That was the same woman that later denied me access to the lower level and I assumed they had people on all entrances. Seems though that I was just unlucky to run into her there. She might not have stopped me if she didn't already know I only had tickets for the upper level.

I was denied access before the first fights of the day and didn't try again from there on.

So, I was there, and here is what I found: - you can not go into the lower level, if you only have a ticket for the the upper one - to the upper level you can bring tripods no problem - many of the press photographers do (they also have multiple cameras with big lenses dangling around them) - they don't mind any photoequippent at all it seems - I haven't seen any tripods in the lower level - I would advise against it (you wouldn't want to anyway, unless you're filming ofc)

Some selected photos I made at the Aki Basho 2013 on the 15th day. There are more, so if you're looking for something specific, just ask, I might have it. But I was pretty tired throughout, I arrived at 5am that morning in Japan after a 14hour flight and was already up over 30 hours straight. http://www.flickr.com/photos/97639650@N02/sets/72157637134397176/

I so hope Takanoyama bounces back next basho. I just like this guy a lot. And wow, Endo now rubbing shoulders with rikishi like Ikio... I'm looking forward to him being seriously challenged.

I guess you can be a cosplayer without running around in cosplay 24/7.

Wow, what a onesided bout between Kotoshogiku and Harumafuji.

First a pause and if that doesn't help usually it goes back to tachi-ai (I wouldn't really call it a rematch). I've seen it happen in the national art of sumo videos on youtube. No idea how often that happens though.

Sad news, ungrateful way to drop out. Seems it can't be helped.

To bad it starts the day I fly back home: http://www.sumo.or.jp/en/jungyo/schedule

Thank you very much!! There is no policy on the website, except for no cameras in the ringside seats. I have written them an email asking to be certain. I have an 18-200mm lens, so that should be ok, I hope! Thanks very much, Bobbie Please report the result of that email in this thread! :) Thanks in advance!

Who is the little guy?

Found with a different approach. According to Grand Sumo Fully Illustrated, juryo sekitori get one or two, makuuchi sekitori get two to five, and yokozuna may have ten or more. Is that 10+ for yokozuna just for scaling purposes? I mean what do you need 10+ people for?

Well that's just standard procedure. The shisho decides who will be tsukebito in every heya. Order who is to be one is self-evident, but does he also order alone who is to serve who ? Doesn't the sekitori have a say with that and can express preferences about who he wants to have as tsukebito and who not ? That sounds like a good recipe for bad blood.

True, although I would rather like the others to rise up to him, than him to fall down to the others.