[sumo] [spoiler] Asashoryu vs Hakuho

[Mike Charlton]

Just out of interest sake, I thought I'd mention that getting hit with a shinai
isn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be ;-)  I played some kendo
recently for the first time and was curious.  At least the kendo shinai
are relatively painless (for me anyway).  They seem to be designed to
dissapate the energy.  The sumo shinai actually look way more painful
since it looks like it can be used like a whip (anyone ever try it???)

             MikeC

On 26 May 2008 12:54:39 +0900, Doreen　Simmons <JZ8D-SMMN at asahi-net.or.jp> wrote:
> The names have already been sorted out; the remaining confusion comes from a mistranslation
>  in one of the news reports. The shinai is a bamboo stick of about 1-inch (2.5 cm) diameter and
> a bit over a meter (yard) long, and has always been used by stablemasters and coaches to whack
>  body parts such as buttocks and calves.
>
> In the martial art of Kendo a heftier version is used for practice in place of a sword, and for this reason
> it is translated "Bamboo sword." Somebody with a Japanese-English dictionary and no direcdt knowledge of sumo
> (or kendo, probably)confused them and came up with a misleading translation.
>
> FWIW.
>
> Doreen
>
> >JJ asked: I followed your entire message until the bamboo spear oyakata.  Is it a
> translation of someones name? Pardon my ignorance.
> >JJ> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 11:11:44 -0400> From: smk1 at columbia.edu> > Will =
> >the Yokozuna or the bamboo spear Oyakata receive a stricter> warning?> > Su=
> >kubidubidu>
>
> Doreen Simmons
> jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp
>
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