<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>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 gmail_quote_container"><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: Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM<br>Subject: [Sumo news] - Training News<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">Oonosato started training. He had nine bouts against Juryo Shirokuma at home on the 29th, going 7-2. Due to a string of events, including the London koen, he said it had been the first time he did real sumo keiko since before Aki in September. "It's been a really long time. I'd forgotten how to use my upper body, but my lower body was solid," he said, satisfied. His tachiai was sharp, and his deashi and right thrusts and left otsuke. "I've developed a habit of pulling back. I'll fix that," he said. He plans to continue training at his heya until the Nishonoseki Ichimon joint training on the 2nd of next month, saying, "I'm not in shape to go for degeiko. I want to tighten my body a bit more and get ready."</span><div><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Houshouryuu began full-scale preparations for Kyushu on the 29th. He won all 11 bouts against rikishi ranked Makushita and below at Tatsunami beya. He expressed his enthusiasm for the year-end tournament, where he will be aiming for his first Yokozuna yusho, saying, "I think I'm in good shape. I love Kyushu." On the 22nd, he returned from London where he won all five of his bouts. He said he had been suffering from jet lag, saying, "Sometimes I'd wake up at 3 a.m. But since coming to Kyushu, I've gotten much better. It's difficult to adjust.." Last tournament, he lost in a playoff against fellow Yokozuna Oonosato. Fukuoka is a place he remembers from his 2017 New Apprentice Exam. This is his first time there as a Yokozuna and showed his competitive spirit, saying, "It's been eight years already. It took eight years for me to become Yokozuna. Oonosato did it even quicker, though."</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(53,60,65);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></span></div>
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