Re: [sumo] Wakanosato- was "Kabu bought. . ."

["Yuko" <fgmnt@k4.dion.ne.jp>]

Genji Bunch wrote: 

> Now, I just enjoy those occasional upsets and don't really pay much attention 
> to him otherwise because I think he has very little chance of promotion 
> unless he completely changes his mental approach to sumo.   Am I completely wrong?  
> I would like to hear what all those Wakanosato supporters have to say.   
> What is it that you see in him?   Do you think he will rise to Ozeki or Yokozuna 
> someday?


... I just wonder if that's the only reason you'd root for a rikishi. Maybe
you're right, Wakanosato may not be able to rise to Ozeki ( ..I'd still
of course go with Josh's tenet though :-) ), but that's just fine. I think we
all have reasons to grow to support special rikishi. Or sometimes you don't 
even know why you like the rikishi that much. 

What I see in him is not only his outstanding sukuinage, or the probability 
for ozekihood. I guess that he's from my hometown has a lot to it.  I do 
like his own (occasionally-a-bit-too-foolishly) honest sumo which you 
limned as "going-my-way-at-any-cost" style. His true deference to Naruto 
Oyakata ( who, by the way, was so much like Wakanosato when active - diligent, 
honest, and sometimes too clean to his own sumo-do ).  Brutal power. 
Willpower. Modest manner. Docility. His tsugaru-no-joppari-seishin ( help, Josh! ) 
which he's proved by overcoming the crucial injury... but after all, I'd 
root for him just the same when his beautiful sumo was not there - I'd want to 
do even more so,  if he's in a miserable losing streak.   


Well, actually I really don't know the reason like him so much - except that 
he was smiling so cutely when we ate chanko together.  :-)



Yuko 


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