My home page is mostly made for those who already know quite a lot about sumo and have the same huge interest in sports statistics surrounding the sport that I have myself. Some of you who come to it might know much too little to find it interesting (yet), and this particular page is to give a hint on where on the web you can turn to get more on your feet.

Firstly, I must say that there is a lot of good sumo pages in English on the web, but most of them require some basic sumo knowledge.  To get this, you might start to look at the following URL which is a basic FAQ containing most of what you need to get started:

There is an EXCELLENT official site for sumo which contains not only a FAQ, but all the current results and a lot of historic data one might find interesting. If I only could say one link to sumo, this would be the one:

There is also another sumo FAQ that concentrates a little more on the different questions one might still have. This could be a good third stop:

Beyond this, the best advice is to join the Sumo Mailing List. It's a friendly Mailing List with a lot of knowledgeable people on it that can give you answers to most questions you have about Pro or Amateur Sumo.
Beware though that as a member, you will get a lot of mail, especially during the sumo tournaments. I would say you will get about 5-10 mails a day when there is not a pro sumo tournament and about 20-50 when there is (6 times a year, 15 days at a time). To join the mailing list, go through the following steps:

Send an e-mail to Majordomo@statgen.ncsu.edu and put in the BODY (no subject in the subject header) of the message subscribe sumo. Or, if you want to get the mailing list meassages to another e-mailadress then the one you send your message from, write subscribe sumo e-mailadress.
 

As the Mailing List has been active since 1993, many of the questions you want to ask will already have been asked and answered numerous times before. Therefore there is an excellent archive search of old mailing list messages where you can check if your question has already been answered

If you want to find all the other sumo pages in english there is at least 2 big link pages you can follow. The first is the Sumo English Web ring, which currently have around 30 english sumo pages, including my own.

The other one contains not only english but also japanese sumo pages. It's constantly updated and its purpose, that I think is more or less acconplished, is to link to EVERY SUMO PAGE on the web.

When or rather if, you have thoroughly gone through all these steps and followed all the links, you will probably be a sumo addict, and at that stage, my home page may be just right, to give you all the trivia you thought you would never need to know... In short: You will have become a SUMO FANATIC!

Have a nice day!
Stefan Gelow, Stockholm, 2000.01.13