Hoshoryu is 16-3 against Wakamotoharu and he's won the last ten in a row. That's just a terrible match-up for Wakamotoharu. He needs to get on a belt to win, most often, and every time he does that to Hoshoryu he puts himself in prime position to get tossed.
Thank you about comment about the clay. Never occurred to me it would always be slightly different. I think it got Ura also. I wondered why it looked like he was going for a single leg takedown. After watching the start a few times it looks like he had both feet slip a tiny bit sending his center of balance a bit forward.
The yobidashi water the surface the a little. I think they do that by eye/feel, so there can be variances.
The next tournament, in Nagoya, is notorious for a slippery surface. That's because it gets so hot there in July and the surface gets a lot of sweat on it.
I don't think I've ever seen Wakamotoharu beat Hoshoryu. The match up always strikes me as kryptonite for Waka.
Hoshoryu is 16-3 against Wakamotoharu and he's won the last ten in a row. That's just a terrible match-up for Wakamotoharu. He needs to get on a belt to win, most often, and every time he does that to Hoshoryu he puts himself in prime position to get tossed.
Here's a cool video of Wakamotoharu getting a sukuinage win over him in his juryo days: https://www.youtube.com/embed/j31DgHEChG4?autoplay=1
Thank you about comment about the clay. Never occurred to me it would always be slightly different. I think it got Ura also. I wondered why it looked like he was going for a single leg takedown. After watching the start a few times it looks like he had both feet slip a tiny bit sending his center of balance a bit forward.
The yobidashi water the surface the a little. I think they do that by eye/feel, so there can be variances.
The next tournament, in Nagoya, is notorious for a slippery surface. That's because it gets so hot there in July and the surface gets a lot of sweat on it.