Since you disregarded forum guidelines and didn’t post any information with your link (there’s actually something specifically prohibiting that) I took the liberty of reading your youtube comments:
goatman27 (1 day ago)
wow very good. the guy stood on it and we saw him stack the bricks. well done. i can not believe there are ignorant people who will dispute this. they are the true fools and a disgrace to the art. i mean the people on bullshido.
Just so you know, I’m an amateur magician. It’s fun. I teach it to my niece. I’m good with cards and sleight of hand. For that reason, I hate watching kung fu demos. This is because 99% of the time, that’s what I’m watching is an amateur magic show.
Ex: Iron palm needs cloth to protect hand? LOL?
lulz dat dood is ghey. u do it liek dis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWh24YQ1go
wait, no srry. liek dis!
That bottom tile won’t cause trouble in this town anymore.
Saturn,
I am not an amateur magician, I thought it was a nice little demo, but experience has taught me that there is almost always some little trick involved that they’re not telling you about. Could you please provide some plausible explanations regarding how this demo was done.
And yes needing a cloth to protect your hand when doing Iron Palm is laughable.
Thanks
OK. I used to break a lot of bricks cause I thought that I was pretty badass for doing so. I still keep my hands conditioned, but I stopped breaking. There is a few things that you should probably know about that break before you go commending him on it.
First and foremost. When breaking stacked bricks. The bottom brick is always the first one to go. If he could break the entire stack, or the only the fourth one from the bottom out of 10, then I would stand up and clap. Secondly, on the closeup break, you can really see the “quality” of the brick. Most show breakers pick out their own material based on its ability to break easily. Nobody wants a rebar re-enforced brick. So if you are planning on show breaking, you go to mill and accidentally drop a few on the ground and see which ones have the best breaking make up.
If he stacked fireplace red bricks 6 high and broke them all, I would say go ahead and give him a medal. The alternatives aren’t smoke and mirrors, but nothing that you should be all that impressed over.
I’m not impressed. Breaking the bottom brick doesn’t seem that special. Actually not at all. Let me break it down for you.
None of the bricks had spacers. To break something in half like that, you need resistance at two points, and force being applied in the middle. Now the brick on the bottom had resistance at two points becuase of the cinder blocks, and therefore the center was not supported and was able to break. However, the bricks above the bottom one were laid flat on the other bricks, and so were supported along their entire body. There could be no center break for the above bricks because there is no resistance at either end of the brick. The resistance is instead supported over the entire surface, making it no lesslikely to break in the middle than at any other point.
What you saw was the force travelling through the above bricks and breaking the only one that was not supported in the middle. If you were to break all these bricks, it would likely be from the bottom up, as support for the above bricks loose the support of the middle as the brick below is breaks in the middle, and creates resistance on the ends but not the middle.
This is science not msyticism. Ask anyone from a physics department. If a philospher like me can debunk this, just imagine the answer a REAL scientist would throw at you!
can someone repost my answer onto the comment on youtube? I don’t feel like registering today.
Breaking with spacers is even more faggotry. Let’s not go there.
Thanks for the explanation, makes perfect sense.
Honestly the other guys already hit on it. There’s a million different tricks one could do for this particular ‘stunt’ but I suspect all this is revolves around a simple use of physics coupled with a restraint of force. Basically the whole stacking directly on, hitting just enough to break but not enough to damage the top.
I am at work so I’m kind of writing like a retard here, for which I apologize.
I’ve done this with wood (back when I was 15 I gave a tae kwon do breaking demo and the guy didn’t hold the board in place) and honestly don’t see what it’s supposed to do. I guess my amateur magician thing was a sweeping generalization that honestly was just to convey my lack of ‘OMG’ factor for any fancy martial arts (most notably shaolin kung fu) demos.
I hope that didn’t come out sounding like total gibberish.
As to the ‘magic’ part of it, check out the way the bricks are arrayed so they are on the very edges of the supports. I found that kind of curious. My rudimentary knowledge of physics tells me they are attempting to maximize the force on that bottom brick. Further, the demo starts AFTER the bottom brick has been placed. So we have no way to see if it’s been milled/drilled/cut in the back or bottom to weaken it.
My point is, it’s a worthless demo that proves nothing except at best he didn’t hit it hard enough to break anything but the bottom brick. You want to impress me? Punch through a brick wall. Better yet, your chi is so strong, do it from 20 feet away without touching it (or using explosives).
I want to see a video of that guy in a live fight, palm someone’s face and the back of his head explodes off. Then I’ll be impressed.
Otherwise this is no more impressive than when I pull one side of a 6 metal ball decoration, and the other side flies away.:eusa_thin
Moved from MABS due to OP not knowing how to start a real investigation.