I always felt that you used your chi/ki or what ever you may call it to focus and generate the energy to smash through the cement slabs, yet as some people say chi and ki aren't real, then you are really saying that I am just strong and can always punch through walls.......hmmmm last time i checked i couldn't so there must be something to the concentration that i am putting into it.

 

aside from that i would like to know what some of you do for breaks, materiels , how you prepare, what strikes you do, the number of items that you break, whether you use fire or not, or freeze the bricks, and such, i hope this is the right area for this discussion since i feel that it deals with internal power, yet i guess if i am wrong i will be redirected....

 

personally i only break bricks and concrete now, i stopped breaking wooden boards when i was a child, they are just too costly. As for a concrete slab will only run you around 80 cents to a dollar, i have broken with a palm strike, straight punch, my elbows, heels, and knees..... i have yet to break with a ridge hand, handknife/chop, or my head, i don't have the guts yet.....my instructor will break 9 cement slabs with his head(sometime on fire) then move to 10 inches of cement for a palm strike and 10 inches of cement for a chop.......he gets really psyched up, i have never tried to stack my slabs yet....when i get back to the states or find a place here to buy i might....i have also broken ice with strikes, other things are breaking sticks and boards over my muscles, whole body on these areas, except for neck,face, or groin, dont want to risk that yet until i can learn to protect those vital areas....so tell me about your experiences

uh... wow.

 

i've broken some boards a couple of times. chops, punches, stomps... yeah, what you've done is impressive, you don't get to see much of that in WI actually, in all honesty, i broke a brick of cheese with a palm strike. there was a Wisconsin pride thing going on and and some grocery store donated bricks of cheese and my school sent students up and we broke them with various techniques. it was a lot of fun, but a little to gimmick-y for me

I have heard that stacking the bricks is alot harder to break than placing spacers between them.....also I am trying to find someone to teach me how to just break the bottom brick and cool things like that, I have just started studying the iron palm training, i have been doing parts of it over the years yet never had a format to go by for the proper way to evolve the skill further.

 

Just out of curiousity battousai16; what was it like breaking bricks of cheese, i have only seen them on tv, yet being in WI i bet you see alot of cheese.....I think that would have been cool to see, if i am ever in Wisconsin I will have to see if i can find another demo like, i'll give you a message and you can give me the heads up!

there's really not much skill involved; cheese is pretty soft an can be pretty easy to break, unless of course you freeze it, where then it only holds the same resistance as about a board. it's still fun though, because everyone is impressed anyway, and you're just like "dude, it's cheese, it's ok. that guy over there is trying to break not only a stack of bricks, but only the bottom brick of that stack". speaking of which, i didn't even know one could do that, that's really cool. hmmm... maybe next time i'll set the cheese on fire? that would be pretty cool...smelly, but very cool...

I think that setting the cheese on fire, may result in some bad burns.....i am just thinking of nachos and cheese, that stuff can get pretty hot, and then it would stick to your arm and hand, maybe have a bowl of nachos handy when it is all over you can have a snack hahahaha

hey granmasterchen ive heard of what ur talking about, when u kinda focus ur energy to one point instead of making it smash all the bricks right, errrm well i aint gota clue about how its done but if anyone can tell me what to learn and so on it would b very nice of ya

i would love to do that, i would be soo cool

 

i would definitely be the life of the party!

I hear Breaking is making a come back. Oh you mean breaking boards and such. Sorry.