 He also regularly employed both "uwatenage" (the overarm throw) and "shitatenage" (the underarm throw, which he listed as his preferred throw), as well as "tsuri-dashi", the lift out.Hokuten'yū withdrew from the September 1990 tournament after suffering four losses in a row and announced his retirement from sumo at the age of 30.He opened up his own training stable, Hatachiyama-beya in 1993.