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Dan Rubin wrote:
Rob
So, basically, you heard the story from someone who was not there, and you heard the story from someone who was there. You find the latter more credible, as you should. 
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Just so we are clear, I'm not in any way trying to indicate that Ikeda sensei's students are less credible than others. That just happened to be a real event that made an analogy here. My point is that humans tend to get a bit starry-eyed when it comes to telling stories about people they greatly admire.
I have no doubt that the person who was relaying the story from someone who was there was doing an accurate job of re-telling what he heard. Just as I have no doubt that I remember quite well what I was told by another person who was also there.
I just meant to say that I found the re-telling from the party with no real attachment to either sensei or their reputation to be much more reasonable.
What I was trying to get at was that in absence of video footage of the Tohei events, I would be much more interested in a re-telling of the match from someone who was not Tohei's students, or the student of any of the Judo guys.
Rob