Day 1 of the tourney finished a couple hours ago! Here's how you can watch recaps, replays, or live! I only plan to post this again towards the middle, and then again near the end of the 15-day tourney. So feel free to post images, video links, comments, or anything else related!
Live / Replay:
- try searching on twitch, this tourney there are 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 1 of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).
Video Clips:
- youtuber DonDon makes a daily video of the "best 10" matches listed in English with replays including on-screen English analysis; those are listed here: https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2/videos Besides the "best 10" of the top Makuuchi tier, DonDon also makes a "best 5" of the second Juryo tier.
- NHK makes a daily video that has all the top-tier Makuuchi bouts with English spoken commentary. This video is replayed on their web site several times during the following day; you can see the schedule here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/ look for "Grand Sumo highlights." After a day of scheduled replays, the video is put up for "on demand" access here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos
- NHK immediately posts individual videos of each bout listed in Japanese with Japanese commentary. Their site is being redesigned and the reorganization is still a little unclear, but it looks like it's available here: ... CORRECTION: go to this page: https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/ and use a translator to click on the link that says like "2nd day's effort video / results ", or just try one of the first links under "お知らせ" (which means "News" ?) it might have a pointing hand emoji 👉 next to it.
- 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
- 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.)
Text Info in English:
- all results and standings and next-day schedule by sumodb
- results and more info from the JSA
- daily writeups by The Mainichi (may be delayed on weekends)
- 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.
SPOILERS OK IN COMMENTS!!?!!
Tobizaru vs Shonannoumi not a classic but entertaining.
Shishi looked shaky
Shodai alert early in a tournament! Could it be?
Midorifuji so good! The opponent started the throw, but MF put himself in a better position to finish it!
Ura vs Oshoma, you could feel that coming...
Kirishima so good!
Kotozakura out-Abi-ing Abi
The bow twirling felt a bit casual
Shishi always looks shaky! That's why I like cheering for him. Even when he wins, he ends up in the second row of the audience or something. But I thought he looked a lot better on day 1 than he did the entire last 2 tourneys! I hope that means his injury's healed up!
Ura was limping a bit after the bout, I hope he's not too bad...
Re Aonishiki - he looked really nervous, even before the false start. The second start he looked really hesitant, which just wasn't gonna work against Onosato who is currently at the top of his game. I don't think Aonishiki recovered from his bad start. But note that in all 3 of his past tourneys in Makuuchi he lost at least 1 of his first 2 bouts, and yet in each case he went on to win a prize. This is his first tourney at Sanyaku so I don't expect him to do as well as last time, but I hope he does as well as possible, learns a lot, and doesn't get injured!
Shishi reminds me of a certain recently departed tall youngster who was also lacking in technique...
Wakatakakage getting blown away by Hakuoho was fun And Hoshoryu vs Tamawashi, man that was close!