Boards
can be dried or even baked to make them easier to break. The same can be done
with cinder caps. ice often has to be scored to allow a fracture line to form,
Ice can even be sawed in half and refrozen with salt on those surfaces.
Watching you cannot determine what is real and what has been doctored. Stacks
of boards or cinder cap's use the weight of the descending portions of the first
break to make the subsequent breaks easier. Similar to the stunts magicians
employ.
While
a beginner I remember my seniors training for a demo where they would do
breaking. Everything I saw was real at that time.
Years
later while studying Tang Soo Do I found breaking was a requirement for
testing. One board with a different break required for each test. I won a green
belt breaking division by performing a front kick through 3 boards and then a
back side kick through 2 boards, none of which was fake.
One
night when a red belt I was asked to come to the front of the class and attempt
a cinder cap break with my forehead. I was shown how to cover the cinder cap
with a towel, then hold it myself. I then did it and it worked. Of course I had
a gigantic headache the next day, swearing to myself I would never let myself
be talked into any such thing again. And I kept that promise.
I
have seen many breaks that were real, I have also seen many breaks of which I
was suspicious about. You get what you get.
Among
the more interesting breaks I have watched where the holder donned thick rubber
gloves and then held a full whiskey bottle that when struck by the instructors
knife hand broke the neck off of the bottle.
I
don't know what happened to the remaining contents.
1 comment:
Long ago it was explained to me breaks are done with substances that will break. Consider boards, they are cut so the grain shows and that is where the break occurs.
Now show me someone who can breaak a 1/4 inch piece of plywood and you'll see someone who has real power in their break.
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