Okay, we're going to talk about breaking. For your first break, you should be using wood. Use pine wood can buy this at pretty much any lumber store, Home Depot, Lowe's, anything that you've got sells would. You want the board to be approximately three quarter inch thick, about cutted about 12 inches by 12 inches. The boards I'm using today are about eight inches so they're not what you want to use use a 12 inch board so a little bit wider here. Okay, so 12 inches square, you're going to want wood that is pretty much doesn't have any knots.

Okay? No knots on either side. This is a knot it's a little harder to break with the knots. When you get more powerful with your iron palm and you're training and you're breaking. The knots won't matter as much but just know for your first board break. Try to get yourself a good board that's pretty much clear.

All knots, you just want to give yourself the best chance to be able to break. When you set this up, set your, you're going to need like a couple bricks to hold the board. I'm out here in grass, typically you want to actually set your bricks up on like some mat, it gives a little bit more some support cement or very firm wood floor. I wouldn't do like a nice wood floor inside or something like that, of course, you know outside in the garage or something like that. Let me show you my support to look like here. You can see I've just got to cinder blocks there.

When you break, I do recommend putting like a towel on top of whatever breaking and that's a good measure to protect your hand and protect your skin. You know when you break over a lifetime and you're constantly pounding these materials, if you're hitting like Raw cement or raw wood, it tends to really tear down your hands, your hands get really calloused up and whatnot. So I tend to use a towel, you know, you can find something for yourself. Towel adds a little bit of padding, but you'll notice when you miss a brake pads Now, the difference so I've just got like a light towel here. Other ways to do it are you can put a phone book down, you know, that's fine to put a thick phone book and learn to break through the phone book. I've got that to demonstrate here today too.

Let's start with the first break. I'm actually gonna use the board that's got the knot in it. Okay, so you want to just set it up like so. You know your choice of braking techniques, you can brake with like a palm coming straight down and you're braking with a flat part of the palm, you hit like the whole thing. Whole palm bang. You could hit with the palm heel.

You can hit focused on that palm heel right here. Straight down to a blade, edge, blade edge, make sure your fingers are apart, thumbs on top for support. You're gonna come down and just hit it like that. You could do a punch, we do back three or four system might have What do you might have learned from it? I wouldn't actually do a punch right away. I would go with the Paul show.

I would do with a flat palm, the heel palm, the hammer fist or the shoot Oh, the blade edge. Those are probably your best bet. Especially first time break. And, you know I'm just going to be breaking a three quarter inch board here. And it's just one board. When you what you do is you're gonna float, hold your hand above it, and drop your hand, it helps to visualize your hand weighing on, just like a giant brick falling onto that.

So think of your hand as like a sledgehammer, and it just sort of falls. And you want to focus through the board. So when you're coming down your mind, your focus is beyond target. My hand may come off the target once I hit, but my energy still projected through the target, you want to project it through, through. Okay, and that was just a simple break. Once you do one board, you can do two boards.

And the important thing is not like hey, I broke a board. That that's not it. What's important is that you learn The proper principles of braking so that you can brake safely. You know, you don't want to go out there and injure your hand, want to be beating up on stuff, you know, you don't want to do that you want to be able to brake safely and go to ever higher levels of braking. My philosophy that I follow is you always start low and work your way up. So we're doing one board, you can do two boards.

At the beginner level, one and two boards is kind of where you want to be. You know that that's a pretty good, you know, it's a start off point. You know, you practice a conditioning, practice the meditations do the strength exercises. This is a good place to start. Now I'm going to get a book here, and we're going to do a little bit of a different break just to show you a variation. Okay, I've got like a Put the board down.

Okay, so one of the ways you can kind of lose, it's not like a hardcover book. And this books maybe an inch and a half or so thick, and you can get thicker books, you can pile several books on top. The idea is what you're doing is you're hitting the top and projecting your energy through the phone book, okay, or through those stack of books. It's a good exercise to just get your energy through. So it'll happen. You can stack your board and I would say Start with one board, put your stack of books here.

And if you want to put a tile on top of that, that's fine or you don't, that's fine too. And you're gonna hit that and just project your energy mentally all the way through. So you project your energy to the bottom side of that. I'm just gonna do a really simple break here. Just an idea of how to do this simple break, you can make it a little more challenging for yourself. You can do two boards, you can add more books on top, you know stuff like that, see what you can do.

It just gives you some variation, something to play with. Okay, and again, that was just one board. And it's the principle of the braking. So that's what you want to focus on. With your braking, you have good principles that can lead to better and better braking in the future. So beginner level, you're going to do one board, get proficient at that.

And then you'll do two boards, okay. And different ways to break, you can break the board with like just a little pad on top stacks and foam books on top. You can get really proficient you can start looking at for breaks or breaks or more like an advanced break. So you don't want to do that the beginning stages but you know, you get more advanced in the intermediate advanced stages. You can definitely get into breaking half boards. That's pretty cool stuff.

I've known a lot of masters will do that. They go by demos and collect all these boards is like hey, great would these guys break and I've seen guys Break it with a one inch punch, stuff like that. More challenges are more stuff to add. There's always more stuff. So, work on that for your beginner level.