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I used to subscribe to an aikido mailing list, and there were people on there that believed that, at the most advanced levels of martial arts, people attained supernatural powers and could fly and teleport and all the bizarre stuff you see in those movies. There was no talking (or laughing) them out of it either. Apparently some people just want to believe in it. I personally don't givve it any credence of course, and really couldn't care less if people believe in the mythology. The only thing that I find irritating about it, by relation, is that I think those movies give people a tendency to believe that the eastern martial arts make people superwarriors, and that they are far superior to western martial arts. It's kind of annoying if you study both.
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