Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Encounter with the Japanese High School Judo team Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 23:25:28 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 14 Sender: ryang@gol.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: yrmfa-01p4-49.ppp11.odn.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1115043915 31864 61.116.165.49 (2 May 2005 14:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 14:25:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:27030 wrote in message news:d44bis$pjv$1@news.Stanford.EDU... > Anyway, afterwards, several people told me that grabbing fingers is very > common among Japanese judoka. That has not been my experience at all, unless you mean grabbing all four fingers and doing the "scoop-pry." I don't think anyone has ever intentionally fouled me, either in randori or shiai. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom ryang@gol.com