What a spectacular show! The senior heavyweight finals, held under the spotlight, will go down in the history of the French Championships.

“Givors, land of strong men”—the legend was carried on by Givors native Adam Lanzas, who became French champion in this legendary and historic pool in Givors.

Body mass, positioning, technique and balance all seem to be essentials here, just like... you know.

Certainly, skip through the video to see the highlights. I couldn't for the life of me find a good short, other than at the evil empire.

Chris just put up a video about a minor rule change where during a throw if a wrestler's topknot touches first it's considered a loss. Previously the gyoji had to determine who initiated the throw.

List of bumps and bruises (pulled out of the October traveling tourney):
Kotoshoho (concussion)
Kotoeiho (lumbar)
Takanosho (ankle)
Shishi (clavicle)
Shodai (scapula)
Chiyoshoma (lower back)
Asasuiryu (eye)
Wakanosho (patella)
Tomokaze (ankle)
WTK

During Sumo tourney discussions I sometimes post pics in comments. Here I'm collecting them! (For more info on how to watch sumo see: https://piefed.social/post/2381151/ )

DAY 11

Kirishima dispenses with Atamifuji

Takanosho defends against Aonishiki (but Aonishiki still wins)

DAY 12

Takayasu powers Daieisho out of the ring

Fujinokawa shoves Kirishima out

Onosato defeats Atamifuji

DAY 13

Fujiryoga tries really hard to smile after winning

Kirishima defeats Onosato

DAY 14

Ura smiles even after losing

Shishi defeats Abi

Kotozakura defeats Onosato

Aonishiki and Kirishima help each other up after Aonishiki's victory

DAY 15

Asasuiryu defeats Shishi

Ura beholds the chaos he has unleashed

Fujinokawa defeats Atamifuji with a fluorish

Onosato is a force of nature against Aonishiki

During Sumo tourney discussions I sometimes post pics in comments. Here I'm collecting them! (For more info on how to watch sumo see: https://piefed.social/post/2381151/ )

DAY 6

Takayasu attacks Kotoeiho (just before Kotoeiho wins)

Onosato defeats Gonoyama

Yoshinofuji in a hard-fought win over Kirishima

Fujinokawa defeats Aonishiki

DAY 7

Asahakuryu defeats Shishi

Fujinokawa pushes Daieisho out (but not too hard!)

DAY 8

Fujiryoga shoves Gonoyama out

Fujinokawa commits to pushing Takayasu out

Ura performs a superhuman feat against Ichiyamamoto

DAY 9

Shishi defeats Ichiyamamoto

Fujinokawa defeats the much larger Kotozakura

DAY 10

Ura grapples with Roga...

...and later, Ura shoves Roga down

Oshoma defeats Shishi

Fujiryoga celebrates after winning against Kirishima

During Sumo tourney discussions I sometimes post pics in comments. Here I'm collecting them! (For more info on how to watch sumo see: https://piefed.social/post/2381151/ )

DAY 1

Ura yeets Shishi

Fujinokawa balances before shoving Yoshinofuji out

Aonishiki stops Kotoeiho from falling into the front row, after pushing him out of the ring

Onosato defeats Daieisho

DAY 2

oh wait I didn't save any pics from Day 2.

DAY 3

Ura pulls Oho down

Kotozakura spins while defeating Daieisho

DAY 4

Hakunofuji pushes Aonishiki out

DAY 5

Gonoyama cannonballs Aonishiki

Yusho comes down to Onosato and Aonishiki, yokozuna vs ozeki. Will the Ukranian put up back to back wins and take him that much closer to grand champion promotion?

Onosato at 11 stands 1 win ahead of Asanoyama and Aonishiki. It's make or break today.

Going into the final 3 days Onosato has 11 wins with Aonishiki, Fujinokawa, and Asanoyama at 9. Looking good for the yokozuna but stranger things have happened.

Look here for details on how to watch the tourney: https://lemmy.world/post/51911492

Spoilers OK below! What were YOUR favorite moments of day ten?!?!?

the day of false starts?

Day 2 of the July sumo tournament in Japan finished a couple of hours ago! The tourney lasts for 15 days, so this is a great time to start watching!

Video Clips:

• youtuber DonDon makes a daily video of ALL matches in the top Makuuchi tier, as well as a video of the second-rank Juryo tier, listed in English with replays including on-screen English analysis (posted around 6am EST): https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2/videos DonDon also posts "Top 10" highlights here: https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumohighlights

• Broadcaster NHK makes a daily video that has all the top-tier Makuuchi bouts with English spoken commentary: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos These are usually delayed by a day, but are a great intro.

• NHK immediately posts individual videos of each top-tier bout listed in Japanese with Japanese commentary.

::: spoiler click here for instructions to see the NHK Japanese videos

They are re-doing their Japanese website. I THINK that to see the latest videos on the NHK site in Japanese, you look here: https://www.nhk.jp/g/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/pm1VNbJpWQ/bp/pExrRxao2y/ and click on the topmost link that says "NHK ONE", it should look like this:

Click "I understand" to acknowledge that you're not in Japan (lel) and then scroll down til you see this button:

it might look like this:

click on that and you should see all the videos?!

For the listings in Japanese, try automated translations if there's a lot of text. Alternately, look for something like: 9月14日 which in this case refers to the 9th month and the 14th day (September 14th). Automated translation doesn't work that well on sumotori names, but this is a great opportunity to learn them by sight! (The JSA web site has pictures of them all.)

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• JSA immediately posts individual videos of each of the highest-ranked 10+ matches listed in Japanese with no commentary, here: https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-video/videos

Additional fan youtube channels (I haven’t checked them out too thoroughly)

• https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-highlights
• https://www.youtube.com/@TheMawashiShow/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@sumowithherbert
• https://www.youtube.com/@SumoFiles
• https://www.youtube.com/@LionSumo
• https://www.youtube.com/@Sumotop/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@Wakanoho-8/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@DarkCircleSumo/streams

Live / Replay:

• try searching on twitch, there are usually at least 3 different streamers providing live video feeds with English commentary, and it's fun to have a community to chat with in real time. The top Makuuchi matches start around 3am US Eastern Time though. At least one of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).

Text Info in English:

• all results and standings and next-day schedule by sumodb

• more results and stats from sumostats, another fan site

• results and more info from the JSA

• daily writeups by The Mainichi (Mainichi Shimbun newspaper)

• occasional articles by The Japan News (Yomiuru Shimbun newspaper)

• for commentary, see the Tachiai fan site

Intro to Sumo

• introductory video

• more English-language intro videos at NHK's Sumopedia

• the wikipedia article has a lot of great information including on sumo terms.