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I liked that friendly gesture between Kirishima and Ura at the end of their bout. Both seem to be decent guys. It reminded me of a friendly handpat Takayasu gave Mitakeumi after Mitakeumi beat him when Takayasu was ozeki (can't remember which basho it was).

Ura's manoeuvre, when he used Hokusehou's body mass as a pivot point to reposition himself for okuridashi, was a thing of pure beauty. I had to rewatch it over and over again. So elegant and cool.

Moti, you keep bringing happiness to the lives of 1,000 people. Is it a small feat? Thank you very, very much for your effort!

My thoughts exactly.

To my eyes, the whole thing has transitioned several levels from the usual attempted telepathy to the realm of outright divination. You have my respect, renowned co-foristae.

Beautiful thread I'm Czech and that's also my mother tongue. This allows me to understand Slovak very well (these two languages are very close to each other) and, to some degree, Polish (in a conversation, both sides have to put some effort into making themselves understood, though). The clarity of other Slavic languages is decreasing with distance. As I spent my youth in Communist Czechoslovakia I was made to learn Russian at school, too. I still remember some pearls, such as "The Pioneers were going to the Artek camp," or "Comrade Lenin used to like birds." I'm fluent in both English and German, I know reasonably well Latin, some rudimentar ancient Greek and was briefly interested in Italian and Esperanto in the past.

Lovely. In December, when our baby daughter had a particularly nasty nonsleeping phase and I was spending late evenings with her tied to me, I was watching real-time videos from locomotive cockpits. Hundreds and hundreds kilometres of this: this. Also very soothing

So, Takaganja had to go, and now they're holding joint sessions, eh? I call double standards!

Would have expected Oshi Dame or something along those lines…

Ok, that explains why gambarization … uh, gambarizement … gambarizedom … er, gambarizehood … why the thing is so popular.

Although it's hard to compete/compare with Akebono, my pick for all-time letter A would be Aminishiki. (Can be put also under letter U )

"We're the hairdressers who say 'Ni!'"

@Yarimotsu: Thank you for the clarification.

This new haiku form Of Wakatakakage Is called WAKAIKU

Pardon my ignorance but can such a thing as a podcast be actually downloaded in, let's say, mp3 and put into an offline device? I don't use Spotify and I've never really understood what makes a podcast different from a "normal" audio recording. (A phonograph cylinder or a stone tablet would be even better, of course. I've somehow missed the advent of the new century in this respect…)

Think the shikona Of Wakatakakage Doesn't fit haiku?

I'd say, with his experience, Nakamura oyakata has become a fierce supporter of Adolf Loos' ideas

Oh man, you really have to feel for Tsurugishou. 6-9 at M16W, a break-in, and now covid

* Pavel was teaching Jiří. Otherwise the description is correct and the video is quite self-explanatory. Takanoyama's shiko isn't what it used to be, though…

Does this "kosho" make sense, though? To do something illegal and be given a free bahso to rest without any loss of rank?

So, next basho, I want Aoiyama to do a Terutsuyoshi and hop on the dohyo. Those giant flabs are gonna catch wind, and flap-flap-flap he flaps away…

My pleasure

Nope, we wouldn't :-) But truth be said, it's a cultural thing, not just vocabulary. In my understanding od (American) English, corral does have Wild West connotations (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and such). Czech word ohrada has none. But it works the other way round, too. Would you call a hotel Mace in English? And yet, there is this hotel Palcát in Tábor in South Bohemia, even with a monstrous phallic depiction of the said weapon next to it. Refers to the Hussite Wars and their role in the heavily romanticised version of our national story. Jan Žižka had one, you know :-)

I'm one continent over and I had to Google it

Okay, okay. We're original, after all (Although even here there's some German input or at least circumstantial influence but we'd be really way offtopic discussing it.)