[sumo] Re: Changed topic - Perception of "lazy" and today's rain

[Barbara Ann]

As I said, it was just MY observation - not from one visit, but from many.
During all of those visits, Musashimaru was working out hard (for him),
while Moose usually just did some one-armed weight lifting with a very small
and light-looking dumbbell. There are others from different heya that I can
probably make the observation about, but also as I said, I was coming from a
different perspective on Musoyama himself. So rationalize all you want, what
I wrote is just my OHO.

As for the rain here, it did not deter the die-hard sumo fans, a long of
whom waited patiently in the downpour for the box office to open. Hopefully,
they all live very close to the Kokugikan, as well, so that they may go home
and change before going in to the - as of yesterday - very chilly KK. And
no, I was not one of those waiting out in the rain. With sumo becoming very
popular again, I purchased my ticket for today, which is a national holiday,
last week when I first arrived. 

And as I write, the sky is brightening.............

BRTK


-----Original Message-----
From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf
Of Doreen Simmons
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:41 PM
To: Sumo Mailing List
Subject: Re: RE: [sumo] For the ladies - Musoyama

I agree with Martina here. As regards arrival on the keikoba, there is a 
pecking order, and in principle, the higher the rank, the later the man 
appears. If a man wishes to show good manners, however, he may arrive much 
earlier than his rank indicates, and such a thing may give a useful pointer 
to his frame of mind, to what has been happening to him lately, to what his 
master has said to him recently -- a whole lot  of variables. In the case 
of heya I know well, I can make an educated guess; but without having an 
inside knowledge of the personalities and recent events involved, I simply 
make a mental note for future reference. The only time I particularly 
noticed Musoyama was several years ago, shortly after he had injured his 
should yet again, and he was working out slowly but methodically with a 
bicycle inner tube stretched in some sort of figure-eight.

In the latter years of a man's career he will, of course, not train so 
much; it's a matter of intelligent maintenance rather than pushing the 
envelope.

Heigh-ho, I'd hoped to be at the sumo by now, but it's raining very hard at 
the moment, and I don't want to sit there all day in wet clothes.

>Martina said: I would not allow myself to make a statement about the 
>lazyness of a
>rikishi, just because I see one hour of keiko in the morning. Then most of
>the Ozeki I have seen are lazy too and especially at basho times when
nobody
>wants them to be hurt. But of course I do not watch them the whole day -
>sexy or not - so you might have an advantage ...
>
Doreen Simmons
<jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp>
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