Technical Rules

[osumo3@native.usc.edu (Luigi Manna)]

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|Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 13:02:31 -0700
|From: aok@ohm.eecs.berkeley.edu (Alan Kamas)
|Subject: Technical Rules
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|I posted this to Soc.Culture.Japan, and thought it would be of
|interest here as well.
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|- Alan.
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|In article <JFRIEDL.93Sep13092010@bishamon.omron.co.jp>, jfriedl@omron.co.jp (Jeffrey Friedl) writes:
||> dm791@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Riley) writes:
||> 
||> |> Wakanohana was
||> |> a crowd-pleaser in his new ozeki status, and came in low to
||> |> quickly force down Kotofuji.
||> 
||> The sad thing about this is that Wakanohana lost the bout, but was granted
||> the win. To the casual eye, the quick bout (54 video frames... 1.80 seconds)
||> looked to go to Wakanohana, but the judges should have more than a casual
||> eye.
||> 
||> Kotofuji flew out of the ring with such force (partly due to Wakanohana's
||> push, but probably more due to Wakanohana's using of Kotofuji's own momentem
||> against him... skillful in either case) that he cleared the upper surface
||> of the outside of the ring "platform", falling below the level of the ring
||> but NOT touching until after Wakanohana's hand touched down.
||> 
||> Unless there's a technical rule covering such cases that would give the
||> bout to Wakanohana, I feel bad for Kotofuji for having his win taken from him.
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|I believe there are two technical rules covering cases were a wrestler
|is out *without* touching.
|
|1) if a wrestler is carrying the other wrestler and walks out of the 
|   ring, the one doing the carrying wins, even though the one being
|   carried never touches the ground.  Thus if Akebono were to lift
|   Mainoumi up and then march out of the ring holding Mainoumi up in
|   the air, Akebono would win.
|
|2) Imagine the ring as a cylinder extending up from the dohjo to the 
|   ceiling.  As soon as wrestler's entire body leaves the cylinder 
|   of the ring, he is "out."  Thus, if Akebono picked up Mainoumi and
|   threw him into the third row, Mainoumi would lose the match the 
|   instant his entire body cleared the cylinder of the ring - not several
|   seconds later when he lands on some unlucky sumo fan.
|
|I missed the day one bouts, but it may well be that Kotofuji cleared
|the cylinder of the ring before Wakanohana's hand touched the ground.
|If that were the case, then Wakanohana deserved the win. 
|
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|- Alan Kamas
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