What about the other knockout strikes used by some masters?

It is mostly smoke and mirrors. Humans are strange creatures. In a group of similar people (age, gender, beliefs, etc.), what happens to one will sometimes affect all. Teachers have witnessed where one child in a classroom gets an upset stomach, and shortly afterward most of the other students start having the same symptoms. Many people read about the symptoms of a disease and start feeling the symptoms they are reading about. After it was reported that President Bill Clinton had chest pains caused by heart disease, doctors were flooded with patients with similar symptoms. Some people are susceptible to subliminal suggestions. That is why television commercials exist. For some people, just seeing a Coke can setting on a table in a scene in a movie will make them thirsty for a Coke. Some people are like sheep; they will blindly follow their leader and do his or her bidding without question. Some of these people are highly intelligent, but gullible. In the case of Jim Jones' followers, Branch Dravidians, and Heaven's Gate followers, they even followed their masters into death.

Have you ever watched an evangelist that "heals" people from the audience? They touch the person on the forehead and the person collapses. Watch death touch "masters" perform Dim-mak demonstrations on their students by touching their foreheads and the students drop like flies. They do not drop because they are faking; they drop because that is what they know they are expected to do. They, just like the people in the evangelist's congregations, want to believe, so they do what they think a true believer should do. Watch people who collapse in these demonstrations; they slowly drop and the neck is still under tension, which keeps it from striking the floor. If you have ever seen a person actually lose consciousness, you know that, since the person is unconscious, he or she will drop similar to a wet towel. There is no muscle control so the person just suddenly drops; they do not slowly lower themselves to the floor, and they do not reach. Since there is no muscle control, the head bangs onto the floor and bounces.

Dim-mak "Master" Harry Thomas "Tom" Cameron, the "Human Stun Gun," a student of George Dillman (another master of Dim-mak), carries this effect even further when he stuns his students with "mental energy" from across a room without ever touching them. Fox News television in Chicago did a "Bottom Line" piece on Cameron. At his school 9full of fat, out of shape students) Cameron (who is also fat and out of shape) was flawless in his ability to knockout his students with just a touch or with his mental energy. However, the same techniques did not work on the reporter, Danielle Serino. When the reporter had Cameron try the same techniques on Jujitsu students from the Fitplex in downtown Chicago, behold, the techniques had no effect on the students. Cameron's reason for the failures was that about 40% of people are unaffected (the other 60% seem to all attend his school) and that the students were athletes (I guess that means his students are not athletes) that are trained to dissipate the energy (Yea, right! We all train to dissipate mental energy attacks from idiots).