November 25, 2006
Sumo movies (Windows Media, though the older ones are in Real)
My favorites here have got to be the slow-motion replays, here and there, of close outcomes. One of you monkeys with video editing skillz (unlike myself) could probably come up with a pretty entertaining YouTube mashup using these little balletic snips.
Will it start to catch on in the West? The crowds in Vegas last year seemed to be pretty well entertained, I think.
This year's Kyushu Basho concludes tomorrow - hope that video from this will be posted soon. At the Grand Sumo Home Page you can watch tiny B&W Quicktime movies of historic matches.
Channel 4 in the UK showed Sumo for a while in the mid-1980s. I loved it - found all of the ritual and tradition and technique enthralling.
Brave people, those spectators at ringside.
Suna-kaburi The first six spectator rows around the dohyo. The name is derived from suna, or sand, and kaburi, to wear on one's head. A spectator sitting in the first few rows around the dohyo may be hit with flying sand from the bouts in the ring.
I often turn on the Sumo on telly. Only managed to actually go once - it was good fun.
Those guys could stop trucks.
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