I once attended an Aikido demonstration with a friend of mine who was interested in Aikido.
The master stood in the middle of the mat and his students one at a time came up and threw a punch at him and he easily threw them to the ground. He then asked anyone in attendance who wanted to come up and try.
One guy got up and threw a jab, cross combo, the Aikido master went for the feint and got clobbered by the cross. It turned out this guy was a boxer. My friend was no longer interested in Aikido.
It shows how easily folks can get caught up in their own faulty perceptions of reality based on faulty training that they reach a point were they completely ignore the independent reality.
In the example of the "Kiai" master he probably couldn't even figure out why he had failed. Being a human with no extrordinary powers was probably news to him.
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