ideas for breaking demo?

[granmasterchen]

Please only post if you are concerned with breaking.

 

I have a tournament coming up in sept (not finalized yet), i was asked to perform a breaking DEMO for the opener of the tourney, so this is for an attention getter, NOT competition.

 

My plan was to break 4 inches of concrete with a palm strike, then move to the next station for 4 inches of concrete with a reverse punch, then move to the power break where i would do 8 inches of concrete with an elbow strike, then pick up one of the cinder blocks and elbow strike that while someone holds it , and finally have the fellow instructors of the area break boards on my body.(both arms, both legs, back and chest)

 

Tonight i broke 12 inches with an elbow strike, so i am THINKING of doubling that to 24 in, i am also THINKING of moving the first two breaks up to 6 inches of concrete, and then only have ONE board broken on my body and have that done on my breaking arm.

 

what do you think? any ideas on how to make it better?

[Shorinryu Sensei]

How about adding a student, in full dress, holding a katana poised to decapitate you in case you fail?

 

OK...OK...I just thought that would be pretty impressive and different.

 

I don't do breaking at all, or at least, not defenseless bricks and boards, but one break that I really would like to see someone perform, and have yet to even hear attempted, is where you pick any 5-6 people out of the audience (better to pick other experienced "holders") and have them surround you with boards/bricks or whatever. Then you close your eyes and tell these people, with no advance coaching on your part, to stand anywhere around you they want to, holding their boards/bricks whereever they chose to (low, mid-level or high), and when they say they're ready, you open your eyes, take one quick look around, and proceed to do your thing.

 

What really bothers me about watching breaking, is all the preperation time spent breathing, psyching themselves up, positioning and re-positioning the breaking materials over and over again, and the "false starts", where they yell..then pull back and start all over again. IMHO, I feel that a break would best be served by imitating a real attack, where you don't have all the time in the world to think about what you want to do, or 2nd attempts if the first one fails, to make it work.

 

Just an idea.

[Zorba]

Twice i have been asked to do breaking demo's for my old tae kwon do club and both times it was a flying side kick over 3 crouched people (about my waist hieght) one time i broke thru the wood presented to me and knock over 2 of the 4 people that were holding it (2 holding the wood, 1 holding each person)

[Luckykboxer]

how big are the bricks you are breaking?

 

I have been getting into the breaking aspect quite heavily.

 

i have broken 15 2 inch bricks stacked.

 

I am looking at doing a demo here in october with 60 - 100 3 inch thick 50 pound concrete bricks in stacks from 2-12 and do breaks in ascending order down the line.

 

One thing I have noticed sicne i have started researching breaking is that everyone tends to use different bricks and sizes.

 

I am also curious on breaking slabs of ice... but from everything i have heard about it the few people who have done ice breaking demos have mostly cheated... i.e. using red hot wires to slice the ice in half and facilitating an easier break.

 

the thing with breaking that i have been discovering is that to the untrained eye, the easier breaks seem more impressive, and to those of us that know breaking the speed breaks are more impressive..

 

of course i cant blame someone who doesnt understand it with being impressed with a 15 brick palm break as opposed to a 3 inch brick broken as a speed break with the fist.

 

if you have a website or pictures i would love to see them, i have been having alot of fun with breaking and am looking to push far into it

[granmasterchen]

LuckyBoxer,

 

i dont have a website yet, i am still waiting for my wife to help me out on that, i am rather computer illiterate while she works for computers for a living.

 

I am breaking 3 inch thick bricks. about 6 inches wide and about 18 inches long,,,,my best guess, i could be off...but i do know that they are 3 inches in thickness.

 

i have done ice before, but the most was about 6 inches worth. Probably doesnt help you out much luckyboxer. No hot wires need for that.

[muaythaifreak]

How about breaking a baseball bat with your shin?

[tommarker]

Chen,

 

I would only do that which you KNOW you can do. Your breaks sound impressive enough for regula folks who won't see the difference between a 1 board break and a 2 board break

[Luckykboxer]

actually the baseball bats on the shin is pretty cool, and gets a good impression from the audience.

 

It is fairly easy as well.

 

my favorite there is the speed break where you have an assistant hold a bat straight up in the air and you do a speed break on the handle.

 

the only problem here is the bats are fairly expensive to go breaking unless its something fairly big you are doing it for

[granmasterchen]

i've never done the bat with the shins. What is the whole idea or thought behind that, if any? Is it just the same as doing any other break?

 

This will end up rather expensive in the end...oh well, i just hope there is a large turn out for the event.

[tommarker]

the bat:

 

needs to be well supported. any give and it will absorb the kick.. that will hurt.

 

hit the thinner part of the bat