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15th September 2022 - Day 5 Aki 2022 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It has been sumo time again. A time of intrigue, excitement and just enjoying the bouts. Aki is always an oddity of a tournament and often has some weird events. However, it appears that everyone came prepared and have been fighting to a high standard from day 1. It certainly makes a difference to the past few tournaments. It might be that the first Jungyo (travelling display of sumo) in 2 or so years did some good. I previously thought that the Jungyo were tiring the rikishi out but I have been proven wrong. So far, we have some clear winners and losers. On the losing side, Takarafuji is likely to be heading down with a 0-5 record. Terutsuyoshi, our salt chucking friend, is not doing great at 1-4 along with Kotoeko and Shodai. Will Shodai repeat his performance from the last tournament and turn this into a winning record? I suspect not but hope he gambarizes. I suspect he will be kadoban again and at risk of demotion. On the winning side, we have 3 who have no loses. Tamawashi, Hokutofuji and Oho. Of these, I suspect Tamawashi will have the staying power to keep in the running for the yusho. However, he is chased by the likes of Takakeisho, Hoshoryu, Takayasu and Wakamotoharu with 4-1 records. Ura has been doing some amazing sumo with a fantastic winning move on Day 4. he managed to pull of a winning move which has not been seen for some 20 odd years. It was a tsutaezori. If you are clueless of what that means like me then it is an under arm forward body drop. Still makes little sense to me. Go search for it. You are likely to find a video now as it is an impressive move! Tobizaru, our flying monkey fella, has been having a good basho. He has managed to defeat the yokozuna, Terunofuji. This was surprising and a bout where he simply kept moving and out of Terunofuji's reach. It is great to see him get a kinboshi for defeating a yokozuna. His record is a not great 2-3 but hopefully he pulls through. His kinboshi should hopefully nab him a special prize if he gets a winning record. Wakatakakage was tipped to be starting an ozeki run to get the mysterious 33 wins in 3 basho requirement. However, he has struggled and sits at 2-3. Not sure if he has a chance of starting a run this time. Kadoban Mitakeumi is doing alright with a 3-2 record. He seems to be on uncertain ground though. Hard to tell if we will see him as an ozeki at the next basho. On a side note, there is a new sumo channel called Sumo Prime Time. This is a JSA ran channel with Hiro Morita hosting. You may recognise Morita from NHK's English language coverage. The videos are well done and I have enjoyed the introduction to sumo style videos. There have been some great interviews too. The channel does not appear to show matches from each day unfortunately. However, it is a great additional source of information. There was a video for day 1 and then a video for day 5. The day 5 video is rather a lot like this phlog, a summary of the leaders and oddities. Hopefully there is enough demand to encourage coverage at the same level and quality of Natto Sumo. Lots is going on and the quality of the sumo has been great so far. I think there is no clear winner for the basho yet. Lets hope the remaining 10 days are as great as the first 5. Hakkeyoi!