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Six Straight for Shoryu

"Legendary" Yokozuna

   
Six Straight for Shoryu
Wins Playoff Over Kotooshu:  “Grand Slam” Within Reach
by “Yukikaze” for SUMO SHIMPO

For some reason or other, September seemed to have a destabilizing effect on yokozuna-East ASASHORYU.  The “Mongolian Express” had been cruising toward a record-setting year in 2004, but the wheels fell off at last year’s Aki Basho:  he finished with a very poor (for a yokozuna) 9-6 record and allowed KAIO to grab the Tenno-Hai.  In the five tournaments since then, SHORYU had only allowed the other contenders a sniff at the Cup before whisking it away.  In two of those basho (Hatsu 2005 and Natsu 2005) he’d rolled out zensho efforts.  What would happen at the 2005 Aki Basho was anyone’s guess.

But no sooner had the tournament begun, than SHORYU went down at the hands of komusubi-West FUTENO.  This put him in the draft of sekiwake-East KOTOOSHU, who chewed through his opponents as if they were not only soft, but edible.  Then came day 11, when maegashira #5-West AMINISHIKI downed SHORYU by sotogake to significantly dim his prospects.  However, the current grand champion had been in this position before and knew exactly what to do:  reach even deeper, fight even harder, and play for a break.  Part of that break came on day 13, when he rolled out OSHU by the rarely-seen kubihineri kimarite.  When maegashira #16-West KISENOSATO felled the “Sofia Skyscraper” the next day, and SHORYU bested ozeki #2-West CHIYOTAIKAI not long after, both leaders held their individual destinies in their own hands.  They both won their senshuraku matches, finished at 13-2 and moved into a highly-anticipated playoff.  SHORYU took full advantage of the chance he’d earned, went hard at OSHU and pushed him over the tawara for his fifth Cup of the 2005 sumo year.

ASASHORYU becomes only the second man in the six basho/year era (1958-present) to run a six-yusho rensho (48th yokozuna Taiho had done it twice).  His 14th Tenno-Hai pulls him even with 54th yokozuna Wajima for fifth place on the “Legends” list.  His 2005 win-loss record now stands at 70-5, which places him in range of 55th yokozuna Kitanoumi’s 82-8 record set in 1978.  (For the record:  over his last six tournament victories, SHORYU has a record of 83 wins and seven defeats.)  And there’s an even more tantalizing possibility:  in November, SHORYU has a chance to notch the first true “Grand Slam” in modern sumo history.  (For further discussion, refer to the “Grand Slam” article in the August 2004 issue.)

Of the three current ozeki, two posted efforts that justified their paychecks but did nothing more.  #1-West TOCHIAZUMA took six of his first 7 torikumi, then batted .500 the rest of the way for a 10-5.  TAIKAI was under kadoban coming into the Kokugikan.  It didn’t look good when he lost his first two matches, but then he launched into a 10‑for‑11 rocket ride for a 10-5 that puts a lock on his banzuke position for at least four more months.  As for the ‘third man’:  the difference between the version of KAIO that won the Cup last year and the one that showed up this year at the #1-East position was so great, it could almost make you wonder whether the ‘evil twin’ had escaped yet again.  The “Human Juicer” lost his first 3 bouts, withdrew on day 4, and now has another kadoban situation to deal with.

When KOTOOSHU first entered the sumo world in November of 2002, there likely were many fans and pundits who could not take him seriously.  In a sport where a low center of gravity is desirable, a man even taller than the 6’7” of 64th yokozuna Akebono had to be considered a freak who would be handicapped by that height.  And on top of that – he was a European in the bargain!  Had Sadogatake Oyakata been hitting the sake a bit hard?  But after a 12-3 at komusubi-East in Nagoya followed by his jun-yusho performance this time, the “Bulgarian Blastwave” is very close to becoming the first non-Asian since 67th yokozuna Musashimaru to earn ozeki promotion (which would make him the first “Eurozeki” – Ed.).  Winning the Kanto-Sho (Fighting Spirit Prize) certainly didn’t hurt, either.  To make things even headier for Sadogatake Beya:  komusubi-East KOTOMITSUKI held his own and more, finishing his latest turn in the ‘killer rank’ barrel with a 9-6 score that should push him upwards into the sekiwake-West slot.  WAKANOSATO, who was in that slot this tourney, went 4-3 before withdrawing from the festivities due to injury.  The day 1 win over the yokozuna was the high point in FUTENO’s performance.  He was rolled out in nine consecutive torikumi and finished at 5-10 for another ride on the ‘down’ erebeta.

At one point KISENOSATO was alongside ASASHORYU pursuing KOTOOSHU:  his win over the Bulgarian opened the door for SHORYU’s victory.  His 12-3 score topped the maegashira leaderboard and garnered him the Kanto-Sho as well.  Other superb efforts from the hiramaku ranks:

#1-West HAKUHO (Mongolia) (9-6)
#3-West KYOKUTENHO (Mongolia) (10-5)
#8-West TAMANOSHIMA (11-4)
#11-East AMA (Mongolia) (9-6)
#15-East TAKANOWAKA (9-6)

#13-East KOTONOWAKA’s day 7 win over #16-East KASUGAO (South Korea) made him the 13th rikishi of the modern era to win 600 Makunouchi torikumi.  AMINISHIKI was the only kinboshi winner.  The Shukun-Sho (Outstanding Performance Prize) and Gino-Sho (Technique Prize) were not awarded.

In Juryo, #1-West TOYONOSHIMA used KOTOOSHU’s performance as a template for his own effort, winning his first twelve matches on his way to an astounding 14-1 effort.  Look for him to be ranked around maegashira #10 on the Kyushu banzuke.  The only black blot on his record was put there by #14-West BARUTO (Estonia) who had an auspicious shin-juryo with a 12-3 record for runner-up honors.  Other noteworthy scores from the ‘ten-ryo’ crew:

#2-West KASUGANISHIKI (9-6)
#3-West TOCHINOHANA (10-5)
#6-East KITAZAKURA (9-6)
#7-East DAISHODAI (9-6)
#8-West TAMAKASUGA (11-4)
#14-East DAIRAIDO (9-6)

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“Legendary” Yokozuna (10+ Yusho)

(updated after Aki 2005)

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The 600-Win Club   (updated after Aki 2005)

* Non-Japanese

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List Of Officially-Chartered USSF Sumo Clubs

(as of October, 2005)

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California Open Sumo Championships
by "Tonkatsu" for SUMO SHIMPO

The weekend of August 13-14 saw a rare sumo double-header in Southern California:  the California Open Sumo Championships on Saturday, and the Grand Sumo Open on Sunday.

The action kicked off Saturday morning at the Alexander Hughes Recreation Center in Claremont, where thirty-six competitors ranging in age from three years old to fifty-three answered the bell.  The double-barrel weekend of action made it possible for four competitors to come in from out-of-town:  Carl Pappalardo and Ford Lyon from New York, and Kelly Gneiting and Matt Anderson from Idaho.

Defending middleweight champion Troy Collins was nursing a pulled muscle.  So he made his debut as a referee and shared the responsibilities with this writer, alternating between referee and line judge with Matsuzaki-san covering the other corner.  Sensei Gary Goltz doubled as head scorer and announcer.

The day’s action commenced with the youngest and the oldest; three kids’ divisions and the Masters’ division.  In the “Cute Little Kids” division, sumo veteran, four-year old Hannah Crosby took two in a row from three-year old Kenneth Christiansen, winning both matches by oshitaoshi.  Madeline Neuman repeated her performance at Goltz Sumo in January by winning the “Little Girls” division.  Shannon Cochran was second and Hannah Crosby third.  In the “Ten Year Old Kids” division, Stephen Simpson came back from a preliminary loss to Bradley Christiansen to win a rematch for the championship.  Rachel Crosby finished third and Ashley Sypherd fourth.  The five-man 40+ Masters division saw the SCSK’s Kurt Rightmyer emerge as the winner, with Jeff Riddle (Golden State Sumo) second and former champion Jim Lowerre (SCSK) third.

After the US Nationals, which saw only four competitors in the women’s divisions, it was very encouraging to see five girls in the junior girls’ division, two of whom also competed in the women’s lightweight and open divisions, for a total of nine female competitors.  Newcomers Christina Hernandez and Leah Sherman (both from the Oceanside Sumo Kyokai) finished first and second in the junior girls with Laura Neuman third.  They then finished in the same order in the women’s lightweights, this time with Kimberly Neuman third.  Kimberly also won the special Neuman family championship by beating her sisters, Laura and Katie.

As the only women’s heavyweight, LaRae Crite (nee Sherman) accepted the medal for that division.  She then faced off against six lightweights for the Open title.  LaRae emerged from the modified double elimination with the gold medal.  Christina took the silver for her third medal of the day and Michelle Pike finished third.

Action then turned to the senior men’s divisions.  A six-man lightweight division saw US lightweight champion Trent Sabo of the OSK defeat his brother Chris for the gold medal.  Chris then beat the surprise of the division, fifteen-year old Steven Welling of the Goltz Judo Club, for the silver medal.

The five-man middleweight division saw Dan Kalbfleisch take advantage of the absence of his CSA teammate to win the gold.  James Harris (OSK) took second place, while Mat Anderson (Gem State Sumo) won a spirited playoff with Golden State’s Doug Cochran for the last podium spot.

With defending COSC champion Casey Burns at home in Idaho, it was up to new US heavyweight champion Kelly Gneiting to uphold the honor of Idaho and the Snake River Sumo Association in the six-man heavyweight division.  Kelly’s road to the championship led through Marcus Barber and Kurt Rightmyer’s surprising find, fifteen-year old 340-pound Steve Jimenez.  Marcus beat US Nationals bronze medalist Justin Crite for the second time to work back through the modified double elimination and take the silver from Steve.

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2005 CALIFORNIA OPEN (Hughes Center, Claremont, CA) - OFFICIAL RESULTS

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<<OPEN WIDE AND SAY “OW!!”…Middleweight Kurt Rightmyer makes a strong debut in Masters’ competition by crushing out ‘old boy’ veteran Jeff Riddle on his way to the gold medal at the 2005 California Open Sumo Championships.  Riddle finished second in the round robin:  Jim Lowerre took the bronze.   (Photo:  “Yukikaze”)

>> BOINGY, BOINGY, BOINGY…James Harris is about to receive a hard bounce off the dohyo from Dan Kalbfleisch in a very spirited middleweight bout at the 2005 California Open.  Kalbfleisch eventually won the gold medal while Harris finished second.  (Photo:  “Yukikaze”)

<< TIM-BERRRRRR!!!    (Photo:  “Yukikaze”)

>> A VERY TOUGH CREW…Some of the members of the United States team to the 2005 World Championships (clockwise from top left):  Troy Collins (middleweight), Carl Pappalardo (openweight), Trent Sabo (lightweight) and Kelly Gneiting (heavyweight).   (Photo:  “Yukikaze”)

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JUNIOR DIVISION YUSHO WINNERS

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2005 Grand Sumo Open:  Power, Passion and Pain
by “Yukikaze” for SUMO SHIMPO

The second chorus of the Big Sumo Weekend of 2005 was the California Sumo Association’s Grand Sumo Open, which took place on the JACCC Plaza in the heart of Little Tokyo.  The dohyo was set up on the plaza’s hardscape under a huge orange-and-white canopy.  A set of brickwork steps on the “north” side of the dohyo gave the members of the media (including this correspondent) excellent views of the action.

To get the crowd warmed up, five young children lined up for one-on-one matches with mammoth Marcus “Hokkyokuguma” Barber.  In events of this type, the whole thing is that the kids – singly or in a group – eventually win out over the huge opponent.  This writer has always considered Marcus to be a sumotori of class who respects the traditions of the sport, and he did not disappoint the crowd:  he made each child work for it, but in the end he risked injury to allow each one of them to prevail.  That was the extent of kids’ action here.

The lightweight men were the first on the dohyo.  US National champion Trent Sabo (Oceanside Sumo Kyokai) had won the gold the previous day in Claremont and was the overwhelming favorite here.  He kept his mental focus and knifed through the competition to take his second top honor in as many days, with Ford Lyon of New York and Chris Patterson (OSK) filling out the remaining podium spots.

The middleweight field included US National titlist Troy Collins, who had made his debut as an official on Saturday.  This writer believes that the 187-253 weight bracket contains the best level of competition in amateur sumo today – and the Sunday action did nothing to dissuade him from this belief.  Strong local competitors such as Golden State’s Doug Cochran found themselves pushed to the sidelines as Collins once again demonstrated his powerful dominance of the division.  Gem State Sumo’s Mat Anderson fought hard to secure the silver medal, while Troy’s CSA training partner Dan Kalbfleisch hung tough for the bronze.

US National heavyweight champ Kelly Gneiting had come from Idaho’s Snake River Valley for the weekend’s action:  he had won the ‘big boys’ gold medal the previous day in Claremont.  James Brewster Thompson, who had been the heavyweight member of the USA Sumo team that had gone to the World Games earlier this year, was also in the field.  But things worked differently this time out, as Oceanside’s Justin Crite rolled Kelly rather spectacularly in the title match.  Marcus Barber (SCSK) notched the bronze medal.

There was only one women’s competition, and it was openweight.  To sweeten the pot, the organizers put up cash prizes for the first three finishers.  Larae Crite (OSK) battled through to grab the gold while teammate Michelle Pike took second.

Eleven men from all three weight divisions lined up for the men’s openweight competition, which also offered cash prizes for the first three finishers.  The semifinals and finals were officiated by juryu-kaku gyoji Shikimori Kinnosuke (Isegahama Beya), who has served in the sumo world since 1984.  Yobidashi Shigeo made the ring announcements.  When the smoke finally cleared New York’s mighty Carl Pappalardo had the gold medal, Troy possessed the silver and Kelly had scored bronze.  A special Fighting Spirit Prize was awarded to Oceanside’s Devon Kobashikawa, who has become a formidable heavyweight sumotori despite his handicap.

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2005 GRAND SUMO OPEN
(JACCC Plaza, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA) - 
OFFICIAL RESULTS

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Photos from the Big Sumo Weekend of August 2005  (by “Yukikaze”)
	<< Lightweight champion Trent Sabo shows his fighting spirit and skills by rolling heavyweight Steve Jimenez in Openweight action at Saturday’s California Open.

>> As Troy Collins officiates, US heavyweight champion Kelly Gneiting shows Steve what it takes to stand tall with the ‘big boys’ at the California Open.

<< This little competitor looks very determined as she stares down Marcus Barber in the Sunday kids’ exhibition.

>> Juryo-level gyoji (referee) Shikimori Kinnosuke declares Carl Pappalardo the Openweight winner on Sunday.

<< “To be perfectly honest - I don’t care how this is going to score with that tough Russian judge.  You are goin’ down!”

>> Justin Crite rolls down Kelly Gneiting for the top honors in Sunday’s  heavyweight action.

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Lone Star Sumotori, Family Dodge Two Hurricanes
by “Tonkatsu” for SUMO SHIMPO

Lone Star Sumo member Bart Harris breathed a sigh of relief when Hurricane Katrina turned north towards Louisiana and Mississippi instead of hitting the Galveston area, where he and his wife Jamie had just put a new mobile home on a piece of property in Santa Fe, Texas.

The relief was short-lived when Hurricane Rita came barreling across the Gulf of Mexico on a path projected to smash straight into the Galveston area with sustained winds up to 165 miles an hour.  When we spoke to Jamie on Thursday the 22nd, she said that they were going to evacuate that night.

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Georgia Sumo Open:  A Report
by “Tonkatsu” for SUMO SHIMPO

The inaugural Georgia Sumo Open was held on Saturday, September 24th, 2005 at the annual Japan Fest event held at Stone Mountain Park, near Atlanta.  It was organized by Packy Bannevans and the nascent Georgia Sumo Association.

This writer flew in from Long Beach, CA to handle the officiating.  USSF competitors from outside Georgia included Trent Sabo and Michelle Pike from Oceanside, CA, Kelly Gneiting from Idaho, and Tom Zabel from Texas.  Initially, Packy was the only local competitor.

Like any first-time event, there were problems to be overcome.  The venue the Japan Fest people gave us was on a small stage off in the woods, away from the other events.  The mats Packy borrowed from a local high school were soft and lumpy.  The front of the stage was a drop of more than three feet into dried pine needles.  It was far from an ideal situation, but the show had to go on, and go on it did.

The crowd of twenty to forty people were treated to explanations and demos of sumo.  Kids were invited on to the stage to join in the warm-up exercises and to do some fun matches against the sumotori.

We started the actual competition with the open division consisting of heavyweight Kelly, middleweights Tom and Packy and lightweights Trent and Michelle.  A round robin was fought to set up a four person semi-final.  The guys weren’t too hard on Michelle, but no one let her beat them either.  Kelly and Trent emerged as the finalists, with Tom and Packy fighting for the bronze.  After the first match between Kelly and Trent was ruled too close to call, Kelly was a clear winner of the rematch.  Packy beat Tom in a hard-fought match to take the bronze medal.

Packy then put out a call to any spectators who might want to compete.  Coming forward were Bryan Narcisse, 14, North Augusta, SC, and V. Loiseau, 17, Riverdale, GA, both lightweights.  On the ladies’ side, Robin Stafford of Columbus, GA stepped up to give Michelle some competition.

Bryan and V. fought a best two-of three Novice competition while Michelle and Robin did the same in a women’s open.  V. won two hard-fought matches against Bryan.  In the women’s matches Robin (who was at least a middleweight) showed excellent balance in taking two in a row from Michelle.

We could have had a two-man middleweight competition, but Packy had a sore toe and both he and Tom had had enough.  The day’s action finished up with the two teens squaring off against Trent in a lightweight matchup.  A round robin resulted in a three-way tie, so lots were drawn and the person with the ‘short straw’ got a bye.  Trent beat Bryan; but then (most surprisingly) V. was able to stay with Trent’s best tricks and won the match.  (Good work, V. – Ed.)

Book Review
by “Tonkatsu” for SUMO SHIMPO

THE UNDERDOG
How I Survived The World’s Most Outlandish Competitions
By Joshua Davis

One of my jobs as registrar of the United States Sumo Federation is to go to events such as the US Sumo Open and make sure that all participants who are US citizens or residents are USSF members.  At the US Sumo Open in 2004, one of the people I signed up was a lightweight from San Francisco named Joshua Davis, the author of this book.

At about 134 pounds, Joshua  was the lightest competitor in the history of the US Sumo Open.  (Note:  we once had a lightweight at the “Dohyo of Dreams” who only weighed 112 pounds.  Andrew Freund himself only weighed around 136  when we first met him, but as the organizer, he has never competed in the US Sumo Open.)  Joshua was one of seven lightweights competing that year.  When the preliminary round robin was over, he was dead last at 0-6.  That didn’t keep him from entering the Open division where he drew Marcus Barber, the heaviest man in the tournament.  As told in the book, he was actually able to get  behind Marcus, but couldn’t do anything with him when he got there.  The open division was single elimination and Joshua went out 0-1 and 0-7 for the evening.

The media loves images like a 134-pound guy going up against a 450-pounder, so Joshua’s match with Marcus made the pages of both the RAFU SHIMPO, LA’s Japanese newspaper, and SUMO SHIMPO.  He seemed to be serious, so we sent him a copy of SUMO SHIMPO and offered help on coaching in the Bay Area.  But we never heard any more from him, and he hasn’t competed in anything since.  Given the fact that many people who make their sumo debut at the US Sumo Open and don’t do well never compete again (the competition level is tough enough to keep even experienced people on the sidelines – Ed.), we didn’t give it much thought.

Fast forward to September of this year.  Three days before Mr. Matsuzaki was due to leave for Japan and the World Sumo Championships, he called to tell me that he had been in a Borders bookstore that day and saw a book called The Underdog.  It caught his attention because the cover featured a very skinny sumotori facing off against a very big one.  It sounded like Joshua and Marcus to me.  Mr. Matsuzaki hadn’t purchased it, so the next day I went looking in another Borders.  The book wasn’t in plain view, so I had to ask for it.  While the clerk was looking it up I called Mr. Matsuzaki.  It turned out that he had gone back to Borders and bought a copy.

The Underdog is Joshua Davis’ account of his adventures (and misadventures) over a two-year period trying his hand at arm wrestling, bullfighting, sumo, retro running (running backwards) and sauna sitting.  I guess he could be described as a modern day George Plimpton.  (By the way, the big sumotori on the cover is Tyler Tuione.)  I had skimmed through the chapter on sumo at Borders and my original intent was just to report on that.  However, since Mr. Matsuzaki had bought the book, I decided to take it with me and read it on the plane to Atlanta.

My basic first reaction was hostility because my impression was that sumo had been used.  Also, the Matsuzakis and I were offended by the fact that in the chapter on sumo, he refers to the mawashi as a “diaper” ten times and only calls it a mawashi once.  In reading the book, it isn’t clear whether he set out from the start to write a book or decided on it later.  At Borders, the title is found under “Humor”.  Perhaps calling the mawashi a “diaper” over and over again is Mr. Davis’s idea of humor and not just a sign of how little he learned about our sport during his brief contact with it.

With that said, I actually enjoyed his story.  It’s basically a story about failure.  He is the product of a failed marriage.  His mother is a failed beauty queen.  His grandfather and stepfather are failures at various things, and of course he fails in each of his efforts.  What The Underdog proves is that even a loser’s story can be interesting if it’s told well.  And Mr. Davis does tell his story well.  The chapters on arm wrestling, bullfighting, retro running and sauna sitting are interesting reading (and at times even entertaining); but they are beyond the scope of this publication.

So let’s skip straight to sumo.  We won’t bore you with what brought on his contact with our sport.  Let’s just say that he eventually found himself at the Jun Chong Martial Arts Center in Santa Monica where he meets Andrew Freund, Svetoslav Binev and someone named Larry (presumably Larry Brann).  An example of Mr. Davis’ prose can be found in his description of Andrew.  “His eyes were sunken, his skin sallow, and he wore a motley beard, all of which made him look far older than his thirty-three years.  He seemed a little strung out.”

Andrew, Larry and Svetoslav were the only people at the practice that day.  Even though he had just come to observe, Joshua was quickly roped into practicing.  He soon finds himself in a mawashi facing Andrew.  Armed with the advice “Go for his throat, it will throw him off balance.” from Binev, he actually wins his first practice match.  Then he beats Larry who weighs 285 pounds.  Andrew tells him he would have a good chance of medaling in his weight division at the upcoming US Sumo Open.  The hook is set.  On Binev’s advice, he stops jogging and starts eating more. He goes to practice every other week.  He goes from 128 pounds to 132.

The most interesting part of the sumo chapter is the author’s experience serving as Musashimaru’s driver for eight days, a job that Andrew talked him into doing.  Musashimaru (a.k.a. Maru, or “Moose”) (No doubt another example of humor, since Maru doesn’t mean “Moose”) didn’t just come to the mainland for the US Sumo Open that year.  He also came for the National Cherry Blossom Festival, marking the 150th anniversary of Commodore Perry opening relations between Japan and America.  Josh drives Musashimaru, who was initially skeptical of the idea that he is a sumo competitor, around D.C. and on a visit to a long lost aunt that Maru hadn’t seen in twenty years, who lives three hours away in Virginia.  He takes to calling Josh “Bruddah Josh.”

Part of the Cherry Blossom activities in D.C. was a sumo demonstration, outdoors, in 40-degree weather.  This writer grew up outside of D.C. and the very thought of doing sumo outside in March gives me goose bumps!  Josh is surprised to learn from Andrew that he isn’t just going to watch the demonstration, he’s going to be in it.  The other three wrestlers are Troy Collins, Kena Heffernan and Tyler Tuione (a.k.a. “Big T”).  After two days of demonstrations, it was back to LA for the US Sumo Open.  As we already related, Josh went 0-6 in the lightweight division.  In the open division he drew Marcus Barber, whom he describes as looking “like an avalanche waiting to happen.”  I recall the match as being interesting and so is Josh’s retelling.  Once the Open was over, he went on to his next challenge and didn’t look back until he wrote the book.

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Current USSF Dan Rank Holders

Current USSF Life Members

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California Sumo Calendar for 2005/2006

CLASSES/TRAINING SESSIONS

Fees may be charged for training session attendance.  Contact the listed STAGING ORGANIZATION for latest information. 

COMPETITIONS

  All information on this calendar is subject to change.  Contact the listed STAGING ORGANIZATION for latest information.

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