[sumo] Tochiazuma wedding

[Stefan Kaut]

:-D

Could imagine even some of the relative newbies in watching the sport have
seen all of MB's forbidden places, facilities and practises.

Just one more of his ridiculous and bouncing statements. I surely prefer
every single post of Doreen and Lynne on this list.




2009/2/12 Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp>

> No, no, no, no no! Mark is clearly trying  a new sell: as we reported a few
> days ago from a site that may or may not produce his world-shaking book, if
> and when he writes it:
> "An Englishman now living in Japan, Mark is the world's #1 non-Japanese
> expert in the sport & ritual of Sumo..... Today Mark publishes the #1 Sumo
> magazine in the world and has been honored with access to training
> facilities & practices forbidden to Westerners."
>
> In order to keep up his publicity base he needs to wipe out anybody who has
> a quarter-century head-start -- either that, or claim that our experience
> somehow wasn't legit.
>
> So let's hear it from you, Mark -- what are these "training facilities and
> practices forbidden to Westerners" ?  Spell it out so that those of us with
> a quarter-century head-start can admit publicly how far we fall short (Mark
> Schilling, David Shapiro, Lynne Matsuoka, Katrina Watts, Clyde Newton, Kenji
> Tierney etc, etc. etc.) what we somehow missed out?
>
> As I've said many times in interviews, anybody who tells you he knows
> everything about sumo is either trying to sell you something or is lying. We
> are, and have always been, willing to welcome a newcomer to our ranks (I was
> once one). But a newbie who started out by trying to get us all fired is a
> rather different kettle of fish.
>
> But, let me make myself clear, my slight annoyance is with the bluebottle
> (unimportant fly) that buzzes around till I find the time and the energy to
> open a window and brush it out.
>
>
> Doreen Simmons
>  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp
>
>
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