Re: "This has not been speed enhanced in any way."

So you're postulating a mass psychotic break?
Plenty of historical precedents of mass delusion/hysteria.

Odd that it can be induced congruent with a class schedule.

Nothing odd about it, actually. It's one of the most common problems
in the McDojo arts. Moves are demonstrated without contact under the
premise that to do otherwise would cause injury. Students are told
(and it's often believed by the instructor who learned the same way)
that if it was done full speed and power, it would work exactly the
same way except cause injury. In fact (so the lesson often goes) any
resistance by the opponent actually makes it work better.

After a few months of this, you have a collection of students who
truly see no difference between a move that works with a cooperative
uke and a move in a real fight. They assume that when it's real,
they'll just go ahead and do it with speed and power. They assume
that the speed and power will come naturally and will not change their
execution of the technique at all. They assume that because something
hurts or feels strange during a demo, that adding speed and power will
automatically magnify that effect and make it work.

This is how you end up with a clip of students practically throwing
themselves to the floor when their teacher waves his arms at them, and
how you end up seeing that same teacher utterly humilated when he
tries it against someone who hasn't been indoctrinated. It's why you
see Dillman's students falling all over themselves when he hits them
with a light tap, and why a news reporter after the same tap just
looks at him and chuckles.

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