Brains, not brawn, enable karate experts to break bricks

Lifestyle Aug. 18, 2012 - 06:01AM JST ( 6 )

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Akemi MokotoAug. 18, 2012 - 08:10AM JST

If brains played a role in it, you'd know well enough to to headbutt or chop a stack of bricks.
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FarmboyAug. 18, 2012 - 05:50PM JST

When they can join two half-bricks together I'll be impressed with their mental power.
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Ah_soAug. 18, 2012 - 11:27PM JST

The karate black belts were able to repeatedly coordinate their punching action with a level of coordination that novices can’t produce.

A summer story report comes out showing that practice makes perfect.
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It"S MEAug. 18, 2012 - 11:32PM JST

And something that any MA practitioner over a certain level could have told him. Waste of money research.
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FrungyAug. 19, 2012 - 11:27AM JST

What this research misses is that a punch is not just a punch. When and how you apply the force (twisting on contact, twisting before contact, straight and through, surface target, etc) makes a tremendous difference to how the force is transferred into the target. The way the force is applied to the object determines the effect. That's the real trick behind the bricks, not just knowing how to punch HARD (as this article implies), but rather how to apply the force for optimal effect.
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JA_CruiseAug. 20, 2012 - 06:30PM JST

all technique, and if your an amateur, could can easily fracture your bone trying to do it. And as Bruce would say, "boards don't hit back". I was never a fan of Karate because alot of the premise was to break your opponents guard literally at the expense of damaging your body part to strike. So if you don't like pain, i don't recommend it.