New recruits for Kyushu 2013

[Akinomaki]

Hopefully:

Mongolian Ichinnorov (20, Tottori) ... He already has the makushita 15 tsukedashi qualification from winning the All Japan Corporate championships in September. 194 cm, 170 kg. About entering Ozumo: “I haven't thought about anything yet.”

Team member like last year, but now coach Ichinnorov (19 or 20?, on the left) also won the individual.

At last: Ichinnorov (now they settle with 20) is to turn pro. Minato-beya as assumed last year, maybe starting as soon as at the Kyushu-basho - foreigner, but now he has the ms15 qualification – would be the first ever by a foreigner.

5 high school titles, after graduation he couldn't turn pro because of the foreigners framework in the NSK and took on the work of a sumo coach at his high school: meaning he has a work permit visa and should be able to start at once.

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2013/10/21/kiji/K20131021006848380.html


more on him in the pro-ama thread

Edited October 21, 2013 by Akinomaki

[Tony]

His mensurations are impressive : 1,94m for 170kg!

[Fay]

Nice guy, some Mongolians introduced him to me last basho. I hope he can start at Kyushu Basho.

[Yubinhaad]

New tokoyama for Arashio-beya, 18-year-old Tokomitsu from Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima prefecture. With the shisho:

And a new yobidashi for Tomozuna-beya, 16-year-old Shuntaro.

[Akinomaki]

Ichinnorov and Minato-oyakata at a press conference declared that he enters the heya and the sumo world, takes part in the shin-deshi kensa, but, alas, he will start on the dohyo at the Hatsu basho.

Minatao-oyakata: “He's not only big but also flexible etc. Even yokozuna is not just a dream.”

Ichinnorov names Hakuho as the rikishi he aims for.

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/region/news/131029/ttr13102902040001-n1.htm

[ALAKTORN]

Wow, this Ichinnorov sounds promising.

[Johnofuji]

He seems to spell it "Ichinnorow" but that wouldn't be the first time a sumotori had different spelling on Facebook. The Mongolians have so many different alphabet soup names/ Byamba told me that he went to Japan to train with him before the World Combat Games In Russia last month. According to Kelly Gneiting, Byamba needed to get back his "dohyo sense" and do some training on clay so it obviously paid off.

Ichi will definitely be someone to watch in the future.

[Akinomaki]

5 new recruits for the shin-deshi kensa tomorrow, with Ichinnorow (I like that spell better, when I type the name I usually type it like this at first).

2 for Otake beya: former high school Hyogo pref. champion Hikaru Yonamine (19): entry from his 6^th year, going to the 22^nd wampaku-zumo (7 years ago) -

and from Saitama pref., without sumo experience but admiring rikishi, Yuuki Shinyashiki (15), who went the last 2 months from 58kg to 71kg.

http://www.nikkanspo...29-1211015.html

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2013/10/30/kiji/K20131030006912730.html

Ōsunaarashi showing to Yonamine the hammer keiko.

[Akinomaki]

The 2 Otake-beya shin-deshi. Shinyashiki was deeply impressed by Taiho's book (Otake-beya=Taiho dojo).
http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/sumo/news/p-sp-tp3-20131030-1211239.html

[Akinomaki]

All 5 passed the basic exam, waiting for the medical. The remaining 2 are Yasui (15, Michinoku) and Kawaguchi (22, Takanohana).

Ichinnorow (20, 190cm, 183kg, in Japan since March 2010): “For the future I aim for yokozuna, but first I want to become sekitori.”

The articles talk about him needing to get a working visa to start in January, but he was employed already and he was in the corporate championships (and won them), so what visa does he have now ?
http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=spo_30&k=2013103100851
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2013/10/31/kiji/K20131031006919620.html
http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/sumo/news/f-sp-tp3-20131031-1211850.html

Edited November 1, 2013 by Akinomaki

[Asashosakari]

The articles talk about him needing to get a working visa to start in January, but he was employed already and he was in the corporate championships (and won them), so what visa does he have now ?

Aren't Japanese working visa tied to the type of employment? He's changing to a completely different "job".

[Akinomaki]

Kawaguchi (22, 182cm, 81kg) had judo experience. He left Beppu univ. in his 2^nd year. As a big fan of the oyakata he joined Takanohana-beya.

Ichinnorow had training with Hakuho in the past: “He has the body and the power. I haven't seen a Mongolian with a body that big before.”
In his youth he lived the life of a nomad, 400km away from the capital, helping with heavy work at around 13. “Before coming to Japan I had 130kg and could ride a horse, now it is impossible.” A relative is a sekiwake equivalent in Mongol-zumo, an ancestor was a dai-yokozuna. In middle school he did sumo and judo. He won a selection sumo tournament in Mongolia and at 17 went to Japan to study at Tottori Johoku high school. He has 5 titles there.
The shikona is not yet decided.
At ms15 he might be able to go up to juryo with a 7-0 yusho. The tsukedashi starting position in the past was determined for each individually, in April 1956 it was changed to end of makushita (ms60). In 2001 it was linked to the 4 major amateur titles (amateur/student yokozuna, corporate champion, kokutai adult winner). Now one of them gives the ms15, 2 the ms10 qualification, valid for one year.
Hakuho explained a plan that foreigners who won a big amateur title should be allowed to enter a sumo heya which already has a foreign-born rikishi.
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2013/11/01/kiji/K20131101006922450.html
http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/news/20131031-OHT1T00240.htm
http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/news/20131031-OHT1T00242.htm
http://www.daily.co.jp/sumo/2013/11/01/1p_0006464337.shtml
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/chuspo/article/sumo/news/CK2013110102000171.html

Edited November 1, 2013 by Akinomaki

[ALAKTORN]

Too bad we won’t be seeing him this basho. Why did he cut his hair? Gonna be a long time before he can wear a chonmage…

[p2501]

Too bad we won’t be seeing him this basho. Why did he cut his hair? Gonna be a long time before he can wear a chonmage…

Maybe that was the goal ^^

[bettega]

Seems like we'll be seeing he soon as sekitori. Let's see him in Juryo and make our minds - it should take no more than 2 basho, right?

[ALAKTORN]

Wait a sec, when did he train with Hakuhō? Can’t be that far back, he’s still young…

[bettega]

Wait a sec, when did he train with Hakuhō? Can’t be that far back, he’s still young…

He is 22 years old... anytime in the last 3 years he could have trained with Hakuho, right?

[ALAKTORN]

I thought he was 20? (Someone even reported 19…)

[Akinomaki]

Ichinnorow – I can't find these yahoo Sankei articles on the Sankei shimbun site, but they are listed as from that origin.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131108-00000127-san-spo

[Naganoyama]

NSK data:

SHIKONA	KANJI	NAME	HEYA	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	DOB	BIRTHPLACE
Ichinnorow	イチンノロブ	Ichinnorow	Minato	190	183	07 - April - 1993	Mongolia
Kawaguchi	川口	Takahiro Kawaguchi	Takanohana	182	81	14 - December - 1990	Hyogo
Shinyashiki	新屋敷	Yuki Shinyashiki	Otake	169	72	31 - January - 1998	Saitama
Yasui	安井	Ayato Yasui	Michinoku	173	67	31 - March - 1998	Kagoshima
Yonamine	与那嶺	Hikaru Yonamine	Otake	170	123	20 - September- 1994	Hyogo

[Tony]

One more very small rikishi at Michinoku-beya! I hope he could contribute to regain prestige at this heya.

[Asashosakari]

Better late than...

Day 3:

Mz1 Dewataikai (1-0) Mz2 Tamashinzan (0-1)

Mz3 Yonamine (1-0) Mz5 Yasui (0-1)

Mz4 Shinyashiki (0-1) Mz2 Tamashinzan (1-1)

Day 4:

Mz1 Dewataikai (2-0) Mz2 Tamashinzan (1-2)

Mz4 Shinyashiki (0-2) Mz5 Yasui (1-1)

Mz3 Yonamine (2-0) Mz2 Tamashinzan (1-3)

Mz3 Yonamine (3-0) Mz1 Dewataikai (2-1)

Qualification order:

Yonamine

Dewataikai

Tamashinzan

Yasui

Shinyashiki

No sign of the new Takanohana-beya recruit.

[Doitsuyama]

And it's all in the database now.

[Asashosakari]

Presentation:

[Akinomaki]

Has Otake-oyakata only one kesho-mawashi left ? Funny seeing somebody else with Ōsunaarashi and the pyramid.