Ryan Ginstrom <ryan@ginstrom.com> wrote:
> <mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> 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

No, I mean the small finger, or 2 fingers.

> intentionally fouled me, either in randori or shiai.

One of our guys, Tony Sangimino, entered the recent Japan High School
Team Tournament held in Tokyo at about the same time as the HS National team
was over here. He made the same observation; said it happened to him in
6-7 of his 25 matches.

Mike