Everybody we're gonna do a two board break when you do a break with stack materials. I'm gonna stack them flat. See this is a bad stack. You don't want to do it like that. Do it like this. See?

Nice and solid. These boards are approximately 12 inches by eight inches and really you want 12 inches by 12 inches to break, but we're going to do these anyways here. Let's back up and show you Okay, and that was a two board break. And that's what you want to be working on. At the beginner level, do one board, do two boards, you know, maybe get really good, you try three boards, you know, you want to focus on doing good principles, good practices, it's better to have breaks that you're doing with good principles and practices, rather than just wailing onto a brick or a board and it's not breaking, that's not going to do any good. You want to keep consistent with your training.

So you want to be doing the conditioning, strengthening the meditations. This is what's going to get you where you want to go. You know, just wailing away on a breaker board and it's nothing's happening. That's not where you want to be. So when you break, you know, make make sure you break, set yourself up for a good clean break, meaning you select the materials, stack it up properly, you know, give it your best shot. If it doesn't break within two attempts, walk away, at the beginner level, just walk away, put that gel in your hands, put it down, we'll come back, you know, week, two weeks, three weeks, whatever, try it again, at the advanced levels, you know, you can hit more shots, you know, because what'll happen is your hands condition more to take, you're more conditioned to be able to do that.

But even so, don't let your ego run away with you and start just wailing away on material that's not breaking because you'll end up hurting yourself. And the goal is to be able to train and train consistently all the time. Your training is what's going to get you to where you want to go. So I just cannot overemphasize that enough. That's that's important to do. breakings fun to do, gives you an idea of what you're doing with the iron palm and conditioning training and that type of thing.

You know, once you do the palm, you can do the blade edge, do a hammer fist, you know, we can do a punch to the heel palm of your hand focusing on this part. You can do a rich hand. And that's just doing like a single board, you can try it all with a single board and then go to a double board. If you can do that with all those techniques, you know you're doing good actually, it's a very good place to start, it's a very solid place to start. One of the thing I always use, never forget, I tend to use some kind of a towel, just something lightly folded, and that is to protect the skin. You know, I'm not when I'm doing board breaks, I'm not doing some thick heavy thing to pad the pad as much as I am just to protect my skin, I tend not to hit the materials directly skin to the whatever the material is, and that tends to really be harsh on the skin in the hand.

So I always tend to have like a little towel or something and you know, put that down. You know this one I've got folded over a couple times you can unfold it or whatever kind of suits the need there and as you can see, it's not too thick or whatever. But it will definitely help protect your hands and that is important longevity. In your training is what you're going for. Because you know what happens when you train over a lifetime you're going to get stronger every year, get stronger, and you'll just, you know, you want to be able to do this stuff well into your elder years. You know, you don't want to just bang yourself up and then be like, Well, I was able to do that for a little while.

You want to train safe, train good, train hard, and be able to do this, you know, into your later years. That's what you want. Okay, don't forget liberal use of dead cow and have fun with the brakes.