Last night I attended a great Martial Arts Event.
I wrote up more about it on my Facebook page.
This is me breaking the bottom coconut out of three that were inside a net bag.
I did this in front of a crowd of 300 people.
[QUOTE=Dale Dugas;1212058]Last night I attended a great Martial Arts Event.
I wrote up more about it on my Facebook page.
This is me breaking the bottom coconut out of three that were inside a net bag.
I did this in front of a crowd of 300 people.[/QUOTE]
Impressive!
Thank you!
OK I gotta ask, I had a friend taifu come up form NYC, who was an iron palm practioner/ master and he did a twisting motion with one coconut on the floor and shattered a it right in front of me, it was the most impressive thing I ever saw as far a IP goes.
Until he stacked 3 tomatoes on top one another and hit them and squished the middle one with sedd flyign everywhere and without tearing the skin of the top and bottom one.
later I heard the coconut is a trick, but I dont beleive so so Dale please help and straighten this out for me. As I do IP and I cannot seem to break a coconut
[QUOTE=EarthDragon;1212064]OK I gotta ask, I had a friend taifu come up form NYC, who was an iron palm practioner/ master and he did a twisting motion with one coconut on the floor and shattered a it right in front of me, it was the most impressive thing I ever saw as far a IP goes.
Until he stacked 3 tomatoes on top one another and hit them and squished the middle one with sedd flyign everywhere and without tearing the skin of the top and bottom one.
later I heard the coconut is a trick, but I dont beleive so so Dale please help and straighten this out for me. As I do IP and I cannot seem to break a coconut[/QUOTE]
It would seem breaking one by itself would be harder, ?, because the force would be concentrated at one spot when you stack them.
It is a Jacobs Ladder.
You are hitting the first one and then kinetic force is being directed down.
Im injecting the power/energy and you can see my hand coming back, as I hit the stack and then pulled back rather than totally follow through to go through all of them.
I hit that thing pretty good as I did not crack it, I exploded it.
I can explain this with the math. Maybe later. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a skill, to be sure. It’s amazing in it’s application, but not so much in the way that most people find it amazing.
These techniques are explained thoroughly in structural mechanics.
Great demo, BTW. 
Not so easy with the hands. That kind of consistency is hard to acquire.
Great photo, too.
Put da lime in da coconut…
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dude, does Andy Weil kno u stole his beard?
ha ha
I know…
Awesome! Applause As a very very amateur (as in never broken anything but single boards yet) Iron Palm guy I would also like know if it’s always the bottom that’s targeted or can any block, brick, coconut…etc from the middle of the stack be targeted? For instance, could somebody pick say # 3 of 8 or # 2 of 3 or whatever? I’ve never seen anything but the top, bottom or the entire stack be broken so I was just a bit curious after reading EarthDragons question. Thanks!!!
The tags for this thread made me chuckle…
Cool breaks Dale!
cool break,cool photo
Coconuts…do not hit back.
Waaaa!
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;1212221]Coconuts…do not hit back.
Waaaa
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1212341]More of a Newton’s Cradle than a Jacob’s Ladder - A guy who gets allegory. :p[/QUOTE]
Clever, I like that.