[sumo] Tokitenku vs. Asashoryu

[Jim Bitgood]

Thank you both for confirming what I thought I saw. It looked to me 
like Asa took off a whole lot earlier than Tokitenku did. But since 
I'm half a world away and the Gyoji is right there, I couldn't call a 
matta. I could yell at the top of my lungs and that would only wake 
up the neighbors at 4am :-)


At 14:26 1/15/2008, you wrote:

>On Jan 15, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Paolo Viel wrote:
>>
>>Did I see uncorrectly, or Asashoryu's mental illness caused him to
>>charge before touching the ground with his fists ? And when
>>Tokitenku recovered from surprise he had already lost the bout !
>>Wasn' it  a matta ?
>
>Well, in the ideal sense, it was, but in the less-than-ideal real
>world, it's not a matta unless and until the gyoji says it's a
>matta.  And matta has never been strictly enforced in ozumo, at least
>in the modern era, which (in this case anyway) is defined as
>beginning with the invention of video.
>
>Lon Howard
>Shomishuu

         Jim
         "Chitose-Taikai"