As the timer counts lower and lower, Justin sits across the screen from Daigo, using a series of normal attacks to distract Daigo and conceal his intentions of using the Super to end the round. Daigo is having none of this, and has already made his play: he walks back and forth in perfect time with Justin, keeping the exact spacing he needs to be able to parry Justin's Super. When Justin activates his Super Combo, Daigo is ready. He has seen this attack hundreds of times from many Chun-Li players. He begins to parry each of the fifteen hits. As the crowd realizes what is happening, they begin to roar and shout, causing a distraction to Daigo, who would ideally like to be able to hear the sound Chun-Li's kicks are making to help his timing. (He and others would, in later tournaments, wear noise-cancelling headphones to guard against this problem.) Daigo knows the pattern of the super's hits - seven kicks, pause, seven kicks, pause, one high kick. As he finishes parrying the last hit of the second set of seven, he decides to parry the final hit in the air: a ridiculously difficult feat that requires perfect timing and is not even necessary - the final hit could be parried on the ground as well. Why go to the trouble, then? Because Daigo is again thinking a step ahead - by parrying Chun-Li's Super, he has earned enough Super meter to use a Super Combo of his own, but to execute that Super, he needs to be able to retaliate in the short window of advantage that he gains by parrying an attack. The best way for him to do this is to combo his Super from a jumping kick, and to do that, he needs to already be in the air when Chun-Li's Super finishes: hence the midair parry. The kick connects, Daigo lands and executes the Super Combo, Chun-Li is knocked out, and a legend is born.