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In a corner of the Meijo park of Nagoya castle, at Meijo-koen station - the inside of the new IG Arena was presented for the first time on the 16th o

Hmm, yeah, well, I'll try to do better.

I submitted 2 days ago.

And not agonize about a couple of minor options for many weeks? What kind of player are you?!

The real challenge is managing to submit your guess, it seems.

Don't waste time replying to me. Make your entry !

Why leave it litterally till the last minute and be now in this situation ? What could have changed from, let's say; last week ?

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/videos/20240624133811964/ Nice video

A cancelled flight on Friday evening threw my weekend into disarray, so quite frankly setting my team for the 3rd round robin matches wasn't exactly my priority... ...but on the plus side, based on previous examples, the drone's not going to do worse than I would've.

We already had this discussion with Bunbukuchagama last Bench game. I didn't even bother to reply this time ....

I thought I had posted this a couple of months ago, but apparently not and I just came across my notes again, so here we go. Sekitori ranked in adjacent spots on one banzuke and the other way around in the same spots on the next one. Not including cases where both rikishi were in sanyaku, because that's just boring. 1958.01->.03 M14w Oikawa 7-8 -> M15e M15e Hirosegawa 8-7 -> M14w 1959.09->.11 M19e Kiyonomori 7-8 -> J1e J1e Wakanokuni 8-7 -> M17e (M19e / M17e were both the last spot in makuuchi) 1960.07->.09 J2e Hoshikabuto 8-7 -> J2w J2w Tsunenishiki 9-6 -> J2e 1965.11->1966.01 M3e Tochioyama 7-8 -> M3w M3w Fujinishiki 8-7 -> M3e 1970.09->.11 J2e Masuiyama 8-7 -> J2w J2w Tochifuji 9-6 -> J2e 1998.09->.11 M1e Kaio 7-8 -> M1w M1w Tochiazuma 8-7 -> M1e 2004.07->.09 M1w Iwakiyama 7-8 -> M2e M2e Kokkai 8-7 -> M1w 2006.01->.03 K1w Tamanoshima 7-8 -> M1e M1e Miyabiyama 8-7 -> K1w 2020.01->.03 K1w Daieisho 7-8 -> M1e M1e Endo 9-6 -> K1w 2022.03->.05 J7w Tokushoryu 7-8 -> J8e J8e Yago 8-7 -> J7w The inspiration for researching that was this part of my Natsu GTB entry, which didn't quite come to pass: Sadanoumi (M11w 8-7) M11 Ichiyamamoto (M11e 7-8) Ichiyamamoto got dropped to M12e instead; an opportunity missed.

I think the focused training on grip fighting/pummeling, positioning, and finishing mechanics can make a lot of sense, assuming there is both dedicated tachiai practice as well as full match practice elsewhere. This approach is also likely to limit some keiko wear and tear. This is effectively what's called situational drilling or sparring in wrestling or BJJ and allows one to drill specific techniques against full resistance in a deliberate fashion. That is, it's all well and good that you learned an uwatenage, but if you are just doing full match sparring from tachiai all the time you won't be able to get in enough repetitions of the technique to make it effective. So, drill the finishing technique, then zoom out and drill a gripping sequence to the finishing technique, and then zoom out again to tachiai to gripping to technique. As a pedagogical system, it produces very high level grapplers, so long as all parts are worked on appropriately. Time will tell, but for the moment I doubt the rikishi are getting zero tachiai practice, and if that becomes a hole in their game it can then become the focus of drilling as they go.

Training of the kyujo rikishi Kirishima at the heya trained with jonokuchi Kakuho - and 40 times oshi in one go with the best available opponent at the heya: new sewanin Yuuki o o he had restarted sumo bouts last week, with Oshoma, Hayateumi and others at degeiko to Naruto- and Tokitsukaze-beya Asanoyama did 16 bouts with makushita, he restarted keiko bouts on the 18th - "Health first" o o o o Nakamura-beya special training - eat, then train without tachi-ai, relax in O2 ooo o o o only 3 days of sumo keiko a week today asageiko outside, with running and other things for training the explosive power - Yoshikaze was famous for his dash - in the afternoon sumo keiko o Day 1 of the Tokitsukaze-beya training camp on Miyakojima, from the 19th till the 25th, kids event with chanko on the 23rd o

Latest news I have is multiple fractures on face + concussion. He'll have surgery but it seems his life is not in danger. Thank God.

Oof. As a Scotsman and in this game, that was a terrible ending.