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People absolutely can break multiple bricks or boards, without fakery[0]. Or are you referring to specific videos? [0] "Fakery" including scoring the wood. But

People absolutely can break multiple bricks or boards, without fakery[0]. Or are you referring to specific videos? [0] "Fakery" including scoring the wood. But multiple breaks usually takes some setup, such as putting small spacers between the pieces of whatever you're breaking. If you consider that fakery, then ... I guess?

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Scoring is absolutely fakery, and sometimes the boards are cut 90% of the way through on the hidden side (evidenced by clean breaks). So are spacers because "breaking X boards" means stacking the boards directly on top of each other, not using the leverage of displacement of breaking each one one at a time.
- khazhoux 2y ago
  > "breaking X boards" means stacking the boards directly on top of each other That's just your interpretation. If a man breaks /n/ boards which were not pre-cut, then he broke /n/ boards.
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    Ethics > lawyering. If they can't break x boards unqualified, then they can't do it. If they can break x boards specially arranged or modified, sure, but that's called "cheating". It's a gimmick.
    - anamexis 2y ago
      Let it be known that according to hi-v-rocknroll's personal code of ethics, it is cheating to break x boards if they are arranged in a specific fashion
    - margalabargala 2y ago
      That doesn't seem right. Logically, the claim "I can break X boards" evaluates to true if there exists some configuration of X boards which that person can break. They aren't claiming "I can break X boards for all possible configurations of those boards". No one can break even one board unqualified, because the board could be 20 inches thick and made of lignum vitae. Thus by your definition the phrase "can break a board" becomes useless.
kragen 2y ago
i've definitely seen people breaking multiple boards by hand and foot without spacers or scoring the wood, repeatedly, up close, over years. i've done single-board break demos myself. the one piece of 'fakery' they did use was that they broke the wood parallel to its grain, not across the grain, and the individual boards were only ever "one inch" thick (which means less than one inch in the usa due to reasons), even if there was a stack of eight of them the force required to break a beam is proportional to the square of its thickness, so breaking one two-inch board requires the same force as a stack of four one-inch boards
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
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  - tmtvl 2y ago
    You want to see people break multiple boards without spacers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZhFSakOf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZhFSakOf0
  - ipaddr 2y ago
    You've got to get outside and see for yourself because videos can be faked.
  - kragen 2y ago
    this was in 01990–01993 and my family didn't own a camcorder; perhaps instead of trying to get your information from videos you should consider consulting an introductory strength of materials textbook

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago

Scoring is absolutely fakery, and sometimes the boards are cut 90% of the way through on the hidden side (evidenced by clean breaks). So are spacers because "breaking X boards" means stacking the boards directly on top of each other, not using the leverage of displacement of breaking each one one at a time.

khazhoux 2y ago
> "breaking X boards" means stacking the boards directly on top of each other That's just your interpretation. If a man breaks /n/ boards which were not pre-cut, then he broke /n/ boards.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  Ethics > lawyering. If they can't break x boards unqualified, then they can't do it. If they can break x boards specially arranged or modified, sure, but that's called "cheating". It's a gimmick.
  - anamexis 2y ago
    Let it be known that according to hi-v-rocknroll's personal code of ethics, it is cheating to break x boards if they are arranged in a specific fashion
  - margalabargala 2y ago
    That doesn't seem right. Logically, the claim "I can break X boards" evaluates to true if there exists some configuration of X boards which that person can break. They aren't claiming "I can break X boards for all possible configurations of those boards". No one can break even one board unqualified, because the board could be 20 inches thick and made of lignum vitae. Thus by your definition the phrase "can break a board" becomes useless.

kragen 2y ago

i've definitely seen people breaking multiple boards by hand and foot without spacers or scoring the wood, repeatedly, up close, over years. i've done single-board break demos myself. the one piece of 'fakery' they did use was that they broke the wood parallel to its grain, not across the grain, and the individual boards were only ever "one inch" thick (which means less than one inch in the usa due to reasons), even if there was a stack of eight of them the force required to break a beam is proportional to the square of its thickness, so breaking one two-inch board requires the same force as a stack of four one-inch boards

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
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- tmtvl 2y ago
  You want to see people break multiple boards without spacers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZhFSakOf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZhFSakOf0
- ipaddr 2y ago
  You've got to get outside and see for yourself because videos can be faked.
- kragen 2y ago
  this was in 01990–01993 and my family didn't own a camcorder; perhaps instead of trying to get your information from videos you should consider consulting an introductory strength of materials textbook