Glad you posting. Sumo community is bigger in YouTube and you are a major part!!!
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I like your approach to Sumo very much. I wish I could watch your creations more often but art takes time, I get it. Thank you
1 year ago | 2
You are the queen of sumo youtubers! Thanks for sharing your experiences with us so I can live vicariously through these photos and videos. So glad you are having amazing experiences over there.
1 year ago
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I was always a fan when he was a wrestler, and am so excited to see how well he's doing as an Oyakata! Just phenomenal.
1 year ago
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That’s awesome! I was introduced to Aminishiki in a Tokyo gym some years ago before he retired, unfortunately I didn’t follow Sumo then and didn’t realise the how famous he was. The gym was called Sun Play, you should try and visit it, there were many rikishi training there and they even had the weightlifting belts of many famous rikishi there such as Akebono and Konishiki (his belt was longer than I am tall!).
1 year ago
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I hadn't heard this part of sumo history before. Thank you! I hope you keep meeting awesome rikishi and sharing these wonderful pictures with us. I love this channel so much.
1 year ago | 0
Your videos have been a great introduction to Sumo, for a clueless westerner like me! 😅 Out of curiosity, do you follow any other grappling arts? Judo, BJJ, submission grappling, etc
1 year ago
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Wow this is awesome ! As a big Arashio beya fan i would love to see a training session. Enjoy it :D
1 year ago
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thats so awesome! I am keeping my eye on Arashio's chinese wrestler Daiseizan in makushita.
1 year ago
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Hurray! I had the chance to chat with him in September - the only one I could because I speak Chinese. Really lovely guy
1 year ago | 0
Sumostew
Other than being the Waka-brothers' sumo dad, this Mongolian-Chinese oyakata could be one of the biggest badasses in Sumo!
Sokokurai was forced to retire by the JSA when he was implicated in match-fixing. When he refused to do so, he was dismissed and took them to court. It was later ruled by the Tokyo District Courts that his dismissal had no basis, so he reappeared in the banzuke in the same rank as when he was wrongly dismissed.
Now he's running Arashio Stable and dining with the most inconsistent sumo YouTuber in Japan. He invited me to watch practice at his stable and gave me his business card. I should've asked him to sign it but my belly was full of lamb 😪
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