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"This picture was taken in a blink of an eye. It looks like this [incredible] in the picture but it’s actually not 90 degrees in real life. It’s a matter of angle, and it’s not a long time, more like a second. Stop for a bit and let it fall like this. Everyone wonders how it’s done but theoretically if you are doing it 90 degrees, you can’t do it. It was like an angle trick.
Actually, you also see those ones where he is letting someone push his head while sitting right? The truth is you couldn’t push it because it was too slippery, so even three people together couldn’t do it. Everyone always wonders how but it’s no wonder at all for me, for someone who was actually doing it because Sensei told me to.
That kind of thing becomes a legend and it just gets absurd. I make people angry when I say this though. (laughs)"
Kobayashi Yasuo, 8th dan
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Solche und ähnliche Aussagen gibt es ja zuhauf ...
... ich persönlich finde es einigermaßen befreiend, festzustellen, daß Ueshiba Morihei kein Supermann war, sondern auch einfach nur ein Übender, wie alle anderen ...