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The bum off/body twisted back across the top of the bike positioning, which many phase four riders had been doing, was and still is an interesting piece of self-deception.
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Photos of famous, skilled and highly successful riders doing things old school only shows that what has now emerged as the preferred method had not been worked out at that time. Just because the guy was good doesn't mean he's doing it as well as it can be done (I hesitate to say "doing it right" because that can is full of worms).
If Doohan were to start racing today, do you think he'd ride like this? Somehow I doubt it. At the time what he was doing was accepted as state of the art. Not any more.
If we were to simply look at greats from the past and take their methods as gospel, nothing would ever change.