Re: Comparing sumo with other sports

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

When I think about similar thing to sumo in Western world based on how I see
and associated with sumo, I just felt that it is rather similar to how I see
and associated with circus.

This comment might make you puzzled, but I think sumo is a one sport circus. It
provides with entertainment with extraordinary human body, athleticism,
entertainment, humor, excitement, tradition, and memory from the past.

There are many different groups or families in a circus performance and they
compete each other, and probably each individual compete their attractiveness
and skills each other as well. The whole group move from town to town as a unit
and the unit includes at least several smaller groups or families.

I love circus, one ring, two rings or three rings.
I love sumo, too. Sumo is a traditional Japanese one ring circus based on
sports-like series of one-on-one matches.

The members of this circus live together as a group or a family, trained by a
master of the family, learn the skills from olders and each other.

Those might be the reason why I can accept yaocho rumor, henka skills or
tactics, futa-factor or musa-factor, etc., which are rather unpopular among
serious fans of sumo as a sports.

-Toshiyori Masumiriki
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