The beginning of a New Year in Japan is marked with mochi-tsuki – rice-pounding ceremony, in which two people do the work, one pounding and another turning the mochi or the rice cake.

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As traditional performance everyone takes part in it, but these two masters of mochi making are nothing anyone has seen before:

According to their websitethey have won the national rice cake TV championship. Obviously it was the impossible speed…

Source: Fastest Mochi Making in Japan(YouTube)