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Sumo stablemaster warned for beating wrestlers with golf club

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He is just warned? Life is cheap I guess..

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I can't figure how this kind of brutality would serve anyone...

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Gee I wonder why parents and their kids aren't enthused about joining a sumo club rather than soccer or other sports. A good way to kill an already dying sport.

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Golf-club is excessive.

Said that I also got hit with wooden clubs during MA practice on 3 continents(much I hear has become a no-no now) neither were our instructors gentle to repose us or touch "sensitive" areas.

And if you think that was rough, had worse in basics(Military service) your DI will break you no matter what and there is no way of quitting either.

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After watching a sumo training session this really doesnt surprise me at all. The one we watched the older wrestlers constantly picked on a younger one and when he was hit in the throat and having trouble breathing one of them kicked him in the head causing bleeding. So really this doesnt surprise me at all, and that really did turn me off ever watching it again

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The stable master beat the men 'for ignoring his instructions to wear kimonos when going out.'

Since when is that an offence punishable by beating in Japan?

Something is strangely warped -not just the gold club!

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The problem is not the wearing or not of kimono. It was probably the last straw in a long series of insubordinations.

By not wearing kimono, they were directly undermining his authority and making him look weak in front of others.

Well, in his mind anyway.

Now he has lost face, they will have to resign, I am guessing.

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Guess the person that voted me down never trained in a decent form of MA/Military or any true competitive sport. Breaking people is a selective process and involves taking them to their physical and mental limits.

Granted the guy in the article went way above what was needed.

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Expect the usual round of "sorrimasens" (Japanese-English verb meaning not sorry), a vague promise not to do it again, and some warm air from the Sumo Association Elders.

Business as usual in J-Sumo.

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The stablemaster would have looked good with the golf club wrapped around his neck ... tight!

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Wonder where the bamboo stick was? He should have used that. But thinking things over, the golf club probably doesn't sting as much as the bamboo stick, so the stablemaster used that instead. Being nice ...

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The J-cops didn't find the baseball bat either -only the golf club

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If sumo was an american sport he would be forced out.

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All I am saying is that you won't succeed unless you can rise above yourself and to get you there is the job of your coach, DI, Instructor, Mentor, etc.

May it be in sports/business/etc and I also agreed that the guy went overboard. From experience it is not an easy road and you need to get pushed, bullied, etc and the correct way is not the gentle/pc one.

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So coaching, drawing out the best and seeing a bright star...involves a golf stick and a non compliance during off work time. Good luck Sumo. Or Beaten to an inch of your live survive and make money for the caddy.

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Are we talking about sumos or yakuzas??

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PS. He was warned...not to be in the media again

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Bullying, alive and well in Japan. Look the other way and wonder why there is an issue... Pathetic.

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(Try to read this with a Carl Spackler accent) - "Lessee, he's gone out without the yukata ... I think this is gonna take, say, the three iron. Gunga. Gunga la gunga."

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Fat loser

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Geeeezzz, not condoning violence here, but if my coach, in any sport, beat me with a golf club...he'd better pray that I dont grab the club from his hands.

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Good thing they warned him. Otherwise foks would think the JSA doesn't get this kind of thing seriously. Hopeless and clueless.

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WARNED... nuff said.

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They should atleast suspend the stable master for a month, I mean come on the rugby team in the news recently got that just for sledging the other team.

Beating people with a golf club results in a warning, this place is insane and that is putting politely.

Sports in this country is a joke from tiddley winks right through to F1.

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"warned"?!

Why not "fired" and "convicted of assault and battery"?!

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Old style discipline.

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This begs the question: Was it a nine-iron or a driver?

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Sumo wrestlers are not captives or prisoners, they can walk away anytime. A lot of the comments here would indicate that they are being subjected to treatment that they cannot escape from. If they don’t like the treatment, walk away, change stables, slip out the back Jack, etc. There are too many people sitting on the front porch with binoculars, peering over their neighbor’s fence and getting outraged at what they think they see. The world today is far too politically correct. To quote a recent pop song ….. “fashionably sensitive and too cool to care.”

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combinibentoOct. 20, 2011 - 09:44AM JST This begs the question: Was it a nine-iron or a driver?

The article stated it was an iron, but according to the outcome results, it obviously was not the correct club for the lay.

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Man, talk about old fashioned discipline. Wonder how this guy acts at home? My guess is not a lot different.

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What surprised me was that last night's news said the wrestlers were not injured. How can you not be injured after getting hit by a golf club?

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All habits die hard in the sumo world.

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If they don’t like the treatment, walk away...

Yeah, and return to that thriving economic powerhouse known as "the former Soviet Republic of Georgia". If he's lucky, he could work his way up to 'assistant to the guy who sweeps up Yak dung on Main Street'. Or just cut to the chase and break arms for the Russian mob.

There are all sorts of ways people are forced to do things.

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In the stablemaster's defense, he did yell "Fore!" beforehand.

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I love how the JSA is considered a police force of its own and above the laws that apply to most other people in society (politicians and many celebrities/yazuka excluded). The minute it was let out that the boy was beaten at all, let alone with golf clubs, the stable master should have been arrested for assault. Nope, not in Japan, and certainly not with the JSA.

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This old, obese stablemaster is hopefully going to get what is coming to him. It is sad that these guys think they are "special" or "important" to Japan - so much so that they can act against the law. Bye-Bye sumo - another nail in the coffin, ha ha!

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