If There's A Steady Paycheck In It, I'll Believe Anything You Say

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the James Randi Educational Foundation's Million Dollar Challenge.  Basically, for the uninformed/too lazy to click on the link: the JREF has a prize of one million dollars available to "anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event."  Basically what this means is that a set of conditions is decided between the Foundation and the applicants, such that the claim can be tested in a way that no non-paranormal factors may affect the outcome.  Two successful tests, a preliminary one and a formal one, are required before the prize can be claimed.  So far no one has passed the preliminary stages.

To get to the point: the Randi Foundation has been in contact over the years with a martial arts group called the Yellow Bamboo.  The Yellow Bamboo claim that they can disable an attacker without the use of physical force.  (The exact method in which they claim to do this is a bit muddled.)  After several years of discussion, the two groups finally agreed on the terms, and preliminary testing was held in Australia on the 30th of January.  The results were videotaped, and I suggest that anyone looking for a quick laugh take a peek at them.  (The third video is a little hard to comprehend, as it's the only one where what's being said is important, and there appears to have been a lot of wind that day.)