<div dir="auto">Moti<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<div>Jeffrey Anderson</div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>For of all sad words of tongue or pen,</div><div>The saddest are these:</div><div>It might have been.</div><div>- John Greenleaf Whittier</div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Moti Dichne</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:niramiai@gmail.com">niramiai@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 1:48 AM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Asabenkei intai<br>To: Sumo Newsletter2 <<a href="mailto:sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com">sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Takasago beya's <a href="https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi.aspx?shikona=asabenkei&heya=-1&shusshin=-1&b=-1&high=-1&hd=-1&entry=-1&intai=-1&sort=1" target="_blank">Asabenkei </a>(Sandanme 79) has retired after 17 years in sumo. Did an 8 basho stint in Juryo but as usual, injuries killed his career. He had surgery, but to no avail and will leave the Kyokai and join a company that intends to cater to tourists and do sumo tours."I'll always be a sumo and Takasago fan. I am very happy to have been a part of a great heya, and I thank the ex-shisho (ex-Asashio RIP) and the current Takasago (he was Asasekiryuu's tsukebito back in the day). My only regret is that I won't be able to see the young guys growing..," he said, and left. He was famous for doing butsugari, lending his chest to other rikishi and doing it quite well. So well than whenever Naruto beya or Takekuma beya came for degeiko both Oyakata would ask Asabenkei to do butsugari (lending the chest to other rikishi during practice, usually at the end of the session, a very grueling part of training), and guys like Gounoyama and Oushouma got stronger under his guidance. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(37,37,37)">Rather than forcing the rikishi to push for a long period of time, the assessed each guy's strength, allowed them to exert all their strength in the final push, and gave accurate advice on how to push to maximize their strength. "It makes me happy that I was a part of them getting strong. I made no personal gain from that. To me, they were all some cute juniors.." he said.</span></span><br>
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