Shaolin monks...the tough ones.

[AdamGB]

There is such thing as mass hypnotism maybe that bloke had his class under it. they sure believed it all into the physical.Unless they were all acting but cant see that somehow.
Cant think of how else so many people would be in on it.

Anyway that bloke wasnt havent any of it, just rightfully smacked him on down

I saw it as mass hysteria, they had been conditioned to hold a deeo belief that he could hit them with no contact and they reacted accordingly, like an extreme version of 'you flinch, you lose'