I found this particularly tasty Horace Silver live set on the 'tube.

Bill Hardman (tp), Bennie Maupin (ts), John Williams (db), Billy Cobham (dr).

New (today!) From BLB.

https://www.discogs.com/release/5932870-Takuya-Kuroda-Bitter-And-High

New from everyone's favourite logician.

It was like: armlock throw. Failed. Armlock throw. Failed. No, like this!

Here's DonDon's highlight reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKrhyaCDnEg

Hoshi-chan (if anyone has enough swagger to withstand being chan'ed its him) knows all of the potential moves his opponents could use on him. He knows how they feel. He registers a subtle change in weight distribution or hand position or whatever, and immediately knows what's coming AND how best to take advantage of it. This is his secret superpower - his speed in countering his opponents moves.

But it doesn't work on Ao-kun due to his background in olympic style wrestling. The way he moves feels different, so H didn't yet get a read on this weird guy who moves "wrong."

But H obviously had no trouble learning the different feel of Mongolian style vs Sumo, so presumably he can learn A's movement too. I suspect if they were to spar together for a full day H would have him all figured out. But A is also fast...

He seems to be fooling a lot of guys with it lately. Notably Takayasu on day 10. I've only been watching since last basho.

Takayasu vs Hakuoho, day 8, Nov 2025