Re: Sumo - tachiai question - soc.culture.japan #26516

[Richard Webb <webb@phys1.physics.wsu.edu>]

In article <1993May26.191919.1269@ifi.unizh.ch>, mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin J. Duerst) writes:
|> 
|> After this has been discussed, I want to add my two cents worth of
|> information:
|> 
|> The time alotted for psyching up with all the ceremony is 0 minutes
|> for Makushita and below (i.e. just one time posing, no salt throws,
|> and off they go), 3 min. for Juuryou, and 4 min. for Makuuchi, up to
|> Yokozuna. Wrestlers for the first time in Makuuchi often tell that
|> they had to adopt to the longer time.
|> What is very important in tachiai, and hasn't been mentioned, is breath.
|> If breaths don't fit together, the wrestlers can't start. It means
|> that just at the moment of the start, they will either have fully
|> breathed out or in; I do not know which is the case. Taking new breath
|> during the fight also seems to be a critical moment; it is often the
|> time the opponent successfully starts some new action (like exchanging
|> arm grips (makikae) or trying a throw).
|> 
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