Sapporo

So for Goe and Hokkaido, there are two things that we're focusing on.

One is beer because that's where I believe the headquarters for Sapporo beer is and you can do beer tours.

Because one thing I think you mentioned in passing about all parts of Japan, sake and sake tasting and breweries, so to speak, are everywhere.

But here you have the opportunity to go to Sapporo.

brewery and do the tastings etc that's one thing that we focus on and that's on or to um the main ski town in Hokkaido because we are focusing on ski vacations because I didn't know this again until my research at Hokkaido well I knew Northern Ireland had a lot of skiing opportunities but um name of the uh the main town for the skiing

Niseko

So that's probably the most common way to go.

And there are actually, I think, some flights now that go.

cool.

It is very cool to think that, you know, in 2028, the Canadian Olympic marathon team could very well look quite similar to the team of seven years prior in Tokyo Sapporo.

You talk about the hyper fixation and being able to get as much out of yourself at this point in your career, knowing that every year is not a guarantee.

What type of things do you feel like you've done differently or done exceptionally well this year in training that have brought forward such a string of consistent race performances?

Yes.

So on the flight over to our training camp in Gifu, Josh and I were both sort of flagged as close contacts of somebody who had tested positive on the plane.

And hence that started our quarantine, which for him ended when he flew back while we were then flying to Sapporo where we were racing.

And for me, it continued in Sapporo.

He's three years younger than me, so I was 19.

And he'd just gotten back from Sapporo, where the U.S. team won the silver medal, I believe.

and just a kid solid like he was 180 pounds at that point and i hit him in the old detroit olympia where gordy and the rest of the red wings played i hit him with an open eyes body check full tilt and it's one of those those contacts where like i'm looking at him in the eyes and he's looking at me and we're like that far apart and in and neither one of us fell but inside my insides are going The vibration.

So the game's in Long Island.

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But I thought that this was good.

I thought that this was better than the match that would happen in Sapporo.

But for me, the trappings of trying to do a trio-style match on a Michinoku Pro Show in Sapporo and you already have a classic Michinoku-style Trails match already onto it.

And it just kind of, at least for me, as someone who I think comparative to you, it's not that I'm negative towards shoot style.

I'm just not necessarily... as enthused by it and I don't think that I think that it makes wrestling sometimes a little bit more complicated than it needs to be and I feel like that this match by doing a trios kind of style thing and the way that it was formed out that essentially for like five minutes it was okay someone's trying to lock in a hold or separate a guy and until they go and knock it and until Tanaka cleared out everyone on one side there was no real opportunity for near falls and that is a problem in a match for me

Great Sasuke is out of action with a blown out knee, but has talked about wrestling on the Major Michinoku show on 114.

And indeed, after kicking off the year in Sendai with a show on the 12th, a sellout of 730 fans, we go to January 14th, 1997, the first show on tape of the year.

a packed house, a big show, a full broadcast by Samurai TV from the Nakajima Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Cause I do kind of miss that place.

Um, even after like finishing this trip, like I would say Sapporo pretty up there for me as like an overall experience.

Um, maybe I would like to do like a different village near Mount Fuji.

So like, you know, I can get like a different angle of it.

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