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Originally Posted by Hatori

With regard to this No- contact training, it's quite genuine. It employs more strategic training, ie feinting direction, eye contact, evasion etc and there's nowt mystical about it.

Any questions please ask away mateys!

Like I said, it's not that I don't think that there was some basis in the technique shown. Rather, it does not happen in real life that two attackers rush your way, you step to the side, they bump heads and fall down.
Evasion, misdirection, planning, and intimidation have a place in every self defense martial art. The art that doesn't teach these things is leaving a gaping hole in its students' training. I am living, walking proof that such techniques work to get through life with minimal physical conflict (I have been seriously struck twice in my life, I have never had the need to strike back). But anyone who tells me that they can reliably send someone tumbling to the ground by moving to the side is going on my list of "crazy martial artists."