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（英会話リスニングスクリプト）
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!
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