Using Karate tricks, which are the same as Hapkido tricks or gung fu techniques, it is pretty easy to break bricks. I’m not going to say that your grandmother could do it, or a child, but you could. Heck, a little work and practice, the smarts to figure out the sacred words I am about to impart, and you could be smashing the holy heck out of sun dried rectangular blocks.

Now, there was a fellow went to the orient, and he knew martial arts, and orientals loving their back yard barques, and even a few beers (pretty American, those orientals) everybody laughing and joking, and they asked this American to break a few bricks for them. You breakee bricks! We have good time!

So the American smacked a brick and the brick sat and stared at him and he near broke his hand bones. Those wacky tailgating orientals, you see, had cooked an iron rod into the brick. Oh, ha ha ha…isn’t that big laughee?

Well, actually, it is pretty funny. I tell ya, those orientals keep it up and they’ll be downright American! The point here is…don’t break what you don’t know about, select your material to be smashed with care.

This subject of picking your material is crucial. People who break big stacks of ice, for instance, don’t bother to tell you that the ice has been pre-broken and stuck back together, which makes the ice easy to break. That tends to make the break a wee bit easier.

And, the people who break stacks of bricks or boards often do so by placing spacers between the bricks or boards, which, again, makes the bricks or boards pretty easy to break. Have them break the bricks and boards without spacers, and you are seeing a real power break. And, yes, your humble author can break five one inch pine boards, that’s five inches of wood, with no stinkin’ sissy spacers.

When you pick a brick to break, pick a dry one, dry ones are easier to break. If you want your ten year old cousin, or your grandma to break a brick, cook it in an oven for an hour or two. And, it helps it you set the brick with one end on the ground and the other end on another brick, and drop the end of the brick as your hand hits the brick, this increases the sharpness of impact and makes the break that much easier. Now, those are the tricks, except for the specificsthemselves.

When you break a brick have your hand loose and empty, and slam it down, and tighten it upon impact. This will concentrate your energy and protect your mitts, and I have seen these principles in virtually all martial arts. Korean Karate tricks, Shaolin tricks, Kwon Bup tricks, Kenpo tricks, they are all based on the same principles, and these principles define how easy it can be to break bricks.

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