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The first video clip looks pretty innocuous, albeit still ugly and in my opinion a dick move. The second one is just stupidly aggressive and I'd be livid if someone did that to me, especially into a low barrier like that. From reading north American blogs/forums it seems they really have a hard on for making it 'bike hockey', where you can proudly show off your injuries and toothless smiles because you're so hard. I really hope polo doesn't go down that route, but I can totally understand that those at the top of the game, in this country, want to get better at playing that way so they can compete.
Body to body contact is part of the game, but riding into someone at high speed, both hands on the bar is just asking for serious crashes and broken bikes/bones. It's also ugly.