| The
leader's personal bodyguard was a martial arts expert known only as O-Sensei.
He taught a method of self-defense called "aikido"． The
Ohmoto sect started to have problems with the Japanese government and O-Sensei
left them to follow his own way. One time he agreed
to face a firing squad of army sharpshooters who did their best to hit him with
their bullets - without any success at all! However,
he refused to help the army to train soldiers and stayed in the mountains around
Wakayama until after the war. One day, he was walking
down a narrow path when some American soldiers were coming in the opposite direction. They
decided that the path was too narrow for all of them and tried to push him out
of the way. The next thing they knew the four soldiers
were sitting in the mud beside the road and the old man continued on his way. America
had met aikido for the first time! He agreed to be
filmed while some highly-trained U.S. military police tried to catch him. Slow-motion
film shows a smiling old man strolling through a group of large Americans who
seem to be grabbing at the air or falling over each other. They
don't even seem to be looking in his direction! It
seems that O-Sensei could move so fast that people couldn't even see him properly. It
was as good as being invisible! | 
