[sumo] And the snowball starts rollin'..

[Moti]

<<<----- Original Message ----
From: Charles Beauchamp <beauking1 at yahoo.com>

I wonder where all of the crowd is that were yappping
about how Asashoryu should accept the tradition or
quit a few weeks back.  Rikishi abuse IS traditional. 
There is a very thin line between hazing and abuse and
most people do not really know where that line is. 
Sumo is in trouble.>>

I will pick up the yappers' gauntlet. There is a difference between tradition and what is expected from a yokozuna, i.e his job description.
There are good traditions, bad traditions, and plain traditions. Hazing is part of the tradition because Sumo is a hierarchial thingy like the army. The army has its share of hazings to "put the new recruits in their place". The army has its share of scandals when some officers overdo it and people die.They don't close the army, or change the rules-they investigate, someone gets reprimanded, some minor superficial talk about "we have learned our lesson and it won't happen again", thenwe talk about it for a while, and things pretty much fall back to how they were till the next case comes up.
I think it's the same here.
As for Asa, well..Come on..He broke down faster than a shindeshi in any heya. Took him 4-5 days.

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