break a brick

Breaking is a very rewarding experience.

I have broken boards with almost every part of my hands and feet. I have borken 3 1inch boards with out spacers with a straight knuckle strike and it was like butter – Mind you I was powering for more and nearly fell over. 5 minutes after that I broke my Brick with s shuto strike (karate Chop..lol). On my way up to break my mate told my to relax and envision what I was doing. A fellow student reminded me to stike through the brick about 4 inches. At anyrate I checked my form a few times before I struck the brick. When I did I not only broke it but blew out the bottom of the brick and the pieces went a good 2o feet radius. It was the wildest thing.

Many people think that you have to be big, muscluar or strong and so forth to excert the force to break but that is absolutly not true. Of the 7 or so people testing for their brown belt that day I think 2 broke both the brick and the 3inches of board. Most of them were bigger guys. Form, physics and faith are what seems to make the difference. When breaking you need three things for success – speed, focused point of impact ( most force distributed over the smallest surface) and power. miss any and you’ll likely not break. Good technique will actually take care of all three of those.

I have also done natural breaking. Things like regular wood, rocks of various sizes and varieties. Natural breaking usually requires you holding the item with one hand and breaking with the other. Very imporant is to be realistic with natural breaking. some things just don’t want to break. I have done major serious damage to my knuckles when I was younger. My instructor told me not to break larger rocks using a straight punch. When I asked why he said just don’t. Of course I did so any how and picked a rock 2ftx3ftx5in and figured I could break it. It is a good thing that I snuck off to do it or everyone would have seen how big and idiot I made of myself. lol

Anyhow I hope that anyone wishing to break does not give up. Once you succeed you’ll know why you didn’t

Tyness

I have tried breaking a brick twice with my hand, I have not been able too. I can break a board with my hand though but not a brick yet hopefully next time i’ll do it.

When I took karate lessons as a teen, we learned to break boards and bricks. The brick wasn’t a red brick, but the grey kind that you build walls with. If you can break boards, you can do this.

Ya know…for all my years of training, breaking boards…teaching kids how to break boards…never tried breaking a brick.

How hard could it be?