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Post by bigblind168 on Jun 29, 2009 11:51:46 GMT -5
okay, i got 8 minutes left on my interwebz card; so im gonna make it short
Do you think failing eqrly in stage one in Sasuke 19, and having trouble with the Pole Maze, one of the easier obstacles, destroyed Yamada(apostrophy goes here (damn french keyboards))s phyique?
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Post by supersheep on Jun 29, 2009 13:17:08 GMT -5
No, i think the fact he's 43 desroyed Yamada.
People tend to forget that in the earlier Sasuke when he was in his early and mid 30s he was a top contender in all the tournaments, and not just on name recognition.
As the course got harder and harder, he was getting older and slower, and the later courses fit his skills far less than the ones of old. He seems like the type that can be very very good for short periods of time, but is not good at sustaining it. The old stage 1s were more like a sprint, now they are like a marathon, and he just can't do it.
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Post by YamamotoFan! on Jul 12, 2009 2:42:46 GMT -5
I think even if he got thru the pole maze quickly he would have failed the jumping spider.
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Post by scnoi1217 on Jul 12, 2009 16:41:52 GMT -5
I think mentally, it was the nail in the coffin for Yamada. While he'll never have enough speed to ever clear Stage 1 again (unless another lenient time limit comes along again), he still was able to get deep into the course and then time out, as he did for 3 tournaments before that. Now, he's just going to keep failing the Jumping Spider especially in the Winter/Spring SASUKE's where grip on the Jumping Spider is particularly tough. He has chances to get far in the Spring ones if he doesn't mess up the Jumping Spider again, but really he won't get too much farther.
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Post by BLM on Jul 13, 2009 12:25:58 GMT -5
IMO he has the potencial to complete stage 1 but his legs just wont move and actually he can still go fast as in 22 he had pretty good speed
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