Re: More aggressive Sumo style

["Charles Finberg" <cfinberg@nevinlaw.com>]

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> From: Pardoe, Richard (prdr) <PRDR@chevron.com>
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> Sumo doesn't really want a more aggressive style.  Look at Kyokushuzan.
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I miss K's innovative moves.  This is not what I picture as "aggressive"
> 
> fixed bouts (yaocho?).  SInce the loser in these bouts often does little
> more than take three steps backward .... (Don't know to what extent fixed
bouts
> exist, but it does seem that an awfully high percentage of 7-7 rikishki
> win on the last day.)

I think that empirical analysis of Day 13 through 15 bouts would show a
statistically significant divergence of results favoring rikishi in need of
kachi-koshi over rikishi whose records were established.  This data should
be plainly available for quite a long period of time.  However, the losses
in those bouts do not always amount to "three steps backward."  Often, it
seems to me, that there's a bit of a tussle, a tie-up, and a sudden throw;
or a near loss and a turnabout.