 However, he was also fond of employing more unorthodox techniques little used by other wrestlers and certainly not taught by coaches.He was criticised for this by his stablemaster, the former "ōzeki" and noted technician Asahikuni, whose view was that by winning by his own idiosyncratic methods, he would be unable to cure his faults.Asahifuji himself claimed in an interview with Channel 4 television to have no favourite technique, but did say that while "everyone likes to throw an opponent, that's not sumo."