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were checking out the "kimarite menu" at kyokais webpage, for me it seems that some of the technics just would be very hard to perform at ozumo level. for example IZORI,KAKIZORI. I

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3806004761/ take a look at this trailer for the documentary "freakonomics", at 1min 23s into the trailer there are some sumo and some guy talking about what I understand is yaocho. I thought it was interesting, I think I will do some filesharing when the time is right... ;-)

when and where is the world champs 09 beeing held?

That is to bad! If anyone knows how to get tickets, PM me!

This one will be fun, not a very high profile match but the prestige and rivalry is there nonetheless!

someone knows were you can watch a video of this bout?

me too

Miyabiyama did good job and the placement of the salt was very strategic... B-)

Im from sweden and I have some insight in this matter i think, many of you are out there Judging long before knowing anything about the matter it seems. To sum it up; He thought he was robbed and got tired of the silly rules/calls and the corrupt wrestling. He protested, he wants a change in the, in his mind ( and many others), corrupt and rotten wrestling world. In this case and in many cases in ozumo, to hell with "the spirit of sportmanship" or alike. Why stand there like a mindless fool and just accept the charades. When sports are corrupt and you are getting robbed, thus there are no sportmanship from the beginning, you might say there are no sport. I like sports and sportmanship, but i do not like being robbed. Not in wrestling, sumo or no other sport for that matter.

Wakanosato playing with clay:

sumos at Dodger stadium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKGTShou8k

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zok45Euaw4

Nice pics, the look very profesional. Thanks for sharing

Of course he is selling the videos! Just because it is disguised in form of an donation it doesn mean he isnt, it is just the same as selling it! And just because he makes no actuall "profit" (and how do you know that?). Many buisneses makes no profit or even goes minus but they are selling stuff anyway( its bad to compare him with a buisness, because he isnt so "profit" talk must be taken lightly). he gets money!And if he choose to spend it on bandwith instead of pizza that his choice. I cant imagine that he makes it or brakes it depending on the donations and if thats the case just dont upload the movies! I want to add that I dont really care if he wants to get money just because, its just not smart to ask for money because increasing risk of being shut down that will follow. As me and other people mentioned before. So to sum it up, at the minimum: info-sumo dont want to pay extra for bandwith, instead he choose to at the lowest increase the risk quite significant of men in suit take the vids away and making it much harder for anyone in the future to upload sumo vids. with that said, some high profile matches day 3-nagoya basho 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4kLETupufw

Here is another "cam" version day 2 - nagoya basho, baruto and goeido: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Yc7gy__ZU Edit: maybe this is wievable on info-sumo, my bad.

Here is a "cam" version of day 2- nagoya basho, osh and hoku: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBPXf1cGm6I If you check the rest of the videos this guy have uploaded you can find some high rank matches of a given basho day.

No problems! I was just lucky to come across it when surfing youtube..

Last three matches of day 1-nagoya 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PyJITbTxOw

I noticed that too. Thast funny because I was wondering when I started to watch todays bout at info-sumo, why put info-sumo logo on the video? It is not their video, in fact it is actually stolen. And then the paypal thing came up, thats like selling stolen stuff. I dont know what info-sumo are thinking about.. this will just add to the reason for the owners to take the vids away. Which is sad.

Wakanosato?

In manga instead of blurring out people's genitals they just don't draw them at all! They show characters who are naked but there is just nothing down there! It looks odd. Strangely you can draw them on robots and cyborgs, just not people. My favorite manga, Ganmu Last Order had a very funny issue last year where "chin chin kun" is a large attack robot or cyborg and its 'weapon' is a giant penis with testicles just in case you weren't sure if that was really the intent! Breasts are fine though, you can draw breasts on anyone you like. Odd rules. To become a bit sumo related, I'm told that the "mawashi falls off, you lose" rule is relatively new to sumo and is only because of western values which they picked up in the last century. It used to be that they didn't care if it fell off. Mawashi and fundoshi are kind of like thongs which are considered a bit risque here in the west but it seems buttocks didn't have the same fascination in asia; perhaps they do now. I wonder what they would call that kimarite, and who his skilled enough to undo the opponents mawashi among todays rikishis? :-)

Arcus, thank you very much for the asa pics! I had some good laughs =). Its amazing how easy you recognize Asa in those old photos.

Johnofuji- do you have this coffeatable? Its awsome, very nice. Could you take pictures of different angles if thats possible? thanks

What happens to guys who dont stay in the kyokai or works in the chanko business? For instans, what happend to Hayateumi? And what will Takanowaka most likley do in his feature? Are there any cases of post career breakdowns? I know breakdowns are not that uncommon in other sports, even ending up in suicides/attempts. I guess they have to get a job? Or can a ex sekitori live on his savings?

Security not breached? what the blip!? she passed six guards and climbed half away up to the dohyo before some random ojisan grabbed her leg and prevented her from completely mounting the dohyo. Maybe its me that dont understand the meaning of "security breach"? :-)