[sumo] Asa troubles-getting serious

[Philip Sherman]

More good points.
I guessed I jumped to conclusions to quickly.

PHIL


-----Original Message-----
From: Judith Douglas
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:51 PM
To: Sumo Mailing List
Subject: Re: [sumo] Asa troubles-getting serious

He has a personal physician and always adheres to his treatment plan.   
The body has a powerful way of letting you know that something is not 
right.   Kicking a soccer ball  does not utilize the same muscle groups 
as grappling on the dohyo with a 359 lb opponent.  Asa's brilliance has 
been his ability to, for the most part remain injury free.  His 
intelligence and respect for his position does not allow for 
endangering his future with spontaneous dangerous acting out.    
Remember too, he  is a young man, at his manly peak :-}.Spontaneous 
Male  Play fighting abounds all over the world, sometimes it ends 
badly, but Asa is above that. He is inherently happy, intelligent and 
has a strong sense of pride and integrity.    The Nihon dudes easily 
get their panties in a bunch.    Xenophobia looms brightly in the 
nightly sunset,  So it is easy to try to deflect attention from more 
serious issues (such as the unfortunate death of the young recruit).   
or Kyokoshuzan getting pressure from the tatooed, fingerless ones.

Asashoryu;s capacity for physical action is probably 10 marks above the 
average athlete. You don;t want him to give you a purple nurple in the 
locker room.
But if nothing else he is REAL.  It would be a terrible mistake to 
penalize him for generating goodwill with a bunch of soccer kids.

And lastly, a person's medical history belongs to them and them alone 
and should not be shared except in emergency treatment or if the 
patient agrees to share specific details of this illness to a 
designated health provider.     He is a human being,  not a commodity 
to be controlled and manipulated by others with poorly directed vested 
interests.

Goofing off is what irresponsible, poorly trained people do.   They 
never make it to home base.

When he gave his interviewa following his victory,  he mentioned, with 
great respect and emphasis how proud he was of Kotomitskui.  Sumotori 
never do that.  That was an act of honesty and integrity.

Like a fellow lister,  I am just awaiting his  100th yusho.    Hey Joe; 
   any chance of your fabulous podcast in the future?   I even 
re-listened to it during this basho.


Huzayomama


On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Jim Bitgood wrote:

> I don' t know if Asa is injured or not, but if he is, he should be 
> seeking medical attention and paying attention
> to Doctor's orders.
>
> At 16:31 7/26/2007, you wrote:
>> My question is:  Is he really goofing off?  Was he really playing 
>> soccer in
>> Mongolia or was he just fooling around as he had ...
> ...snip...
>> willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that his back is hurt 
>> until
>> someone provides irrefutable evidence to the contrary
>
>
>         Jim
>         "Chitose-Taikai"
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