Stablemaster slapped with warning for beating junior wrestler with bamboo sword

Sunday 18th May, 04:46 PM JST

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rjd_jr at 06:02 AM JST - 18th May

Beat a wrestler with a bamboo stick? Gee, how "harsh." Sumo is an incredibly hard and demanding sport, and if people get all upset over a little bamboo disciplining, how do they expect the sumo wrestlers to develop mental and physical toughness? Two sumo wrestlers going at it full speed is 50 fold more destructive than a bamboo stick. Yet another example of the 'dumbing' down and 'take the easy way out' mentality of the current generation the world over. This is the way it's always been done. But I guess since this is Japan related more people would criticize this as being too "harsh" and whatnot.
Beelzebub at 08:01 AM JST - 18th May

rjd_jr -- if stablemasters don't beat them, they won't become vicious. If they don't become vicious, they won't defeat the Mongolians, who are apparently naturally vicious and don't even require beatings and abuse to make them so. More than any "tradition," this is the predicament modern sumo is facing.
capone at 09:17 AM JST - 18th May

sumo isn't a sport
outofmydepth at 11:48 AM JST - 18th May

being in the matial arts, ive been hit with a bamboo stick - yes, it hurts - a lot. what worries me more is hitting with baseball bats, beer bottles and "cooking instruments." just what the heck was that??? surely not a stirring spoon if the boy needed stitches. baseball bats are for baseballs, beer bottles are for drinking out of and cooking instruments are for cooking. and "hazing is just wrong!!"nuf said.
okapake at 12:45 PM JST - 18th May

Hey, I've been hit by a kendo stick. Just a rap during meditation time, but NEVER beaten with it. That goes too far.
borscht at 12:45 PM JST - 18th May

rjd_jr Beating = physical toughness. Beating = mental toughness.

I think you've solved the problem of Japanese education. Can't learn kanji in first grade? Haul out the stick.
rjd_jr at 02:38 PM JST - 18th May

Not quite borscht, you've only got it half right. Indeed, beating instills physical and mental toughness, in the world of sports and the martial way. Go to any hardcore martial arts training area in the world, not the soccer mom karate gyms, and see how they train their fighters to be warriors. There's none of this 'mommy I have a stress card' type of garbage. You train people the way they fight or compete, simple as that, been done that in all corners of the globe since time eternal, and will continue to be like that not watered down. Maybe in your version of "sumo" with a gazillion safety regulations there can be no hazing or torture or whatever sensational term you want to deem it. And it's always nice as usual to see my detractors continue to associate me with non issues due to their lack of substance. Japanese education is absolutey irrelevant to this subject of sumo.
Farmboy at 04:05 PM JST - 18th May

"Stablemaster slapped with warning ..."

Perhaps he should have been "caressed with a warning"?
outofmydepth at 04:36 PM JST - 18th May

perhaps he should have been hit with a cooking instrument, baseball bat or beer bottle to the head.
Starviking at 05:20 PM JST - 18th May

And yet if I beat one of my pupils with a bamboo sword I'd be arrested...
borscht at 06:56 PM JST - 18th May

rjd_jr

I've read that aikido in Japan, another martial art and related, therefore, to sumo, has the most deaths in the world. Russia, the US, Korea, and other countries with aikido have broken arms, legs, et cetera (from practice, not the coach bashing them with a frying pan) but in Japan it's death. Makes 'em tougher, though
kendodan at 07:43 PM JST - 18th May

hahahaha . Did you say kendo stick? Are you sure that you do kendo? Oh wait, Im sure you are just a beginner and dont know the difference yet.
kendodan at 07:47 PM JST - 18th May

borscht, Where did you get this info about aikido in Japan? You have been badly lied too my friend.
Stallion at 01:40 AM JST - 19th May

being in the matial arts, ive been hit with a bamboo stick - yes, it hurts - a lot. what worries me more is hitting with baseball bats, beer bottles and "cooking instruments." just what the heck was that??? surely not a stirring spoon if the boy needed stitches. baseball bats are for baseballs, beer bottles are for drinking out of and cooking instruments are for cooking. and "hazing is just wrong!!"nuf said.
mikeylikesit at 02:51 AM JST - 19th May

"cooking instruments." just what the heck was that???

cooking instrument = meat cleaver, a huge, oversize one

or maybe it was a chopstick...I'm not sure.