So, I guess now is a good a time as any to talk about the brick.

Last night I got the brick that I'm going to break on Friday.  I practiced with Catanzaro for a while after class, forms, knife, rolls, anything he could throw at me I wanted to know I could do.  Then we did a couple brick techniques on the sandbag for practice, and I walked out of the school with the brick.  Its sitting next to me now, I kind of want to psych it out or something. "You're going down brick".  My roommate says I should draw a face on it.

The reason I keep obsessing over this I think is that I'm feeling pretty good about the rest of the test. This is of course roughly 5 years in the making (my fault) and so I'm pretty solid on most of my knowledge, and forms, and I've got enough take-downs to feel confident.  The only thing that's unknown, the only thing I haven't done, is the brick.  I know I can do it.  My hand is going to destroy that brick.  Its just that I need something to obsess over, so that defaults to the thing I've never done before.

The idea behind breaking the brick is all physics, which works well for me as a Mech major.  Instead of just being a normal strike, you move your entire body an extreme amount, do a "windmill" motion with your arms, then drop your hips and tighten up just as you hit, concentrating all of your arm speed onto the knife edge of your hand, coupled with a twist motion of your other hand and a loud kiyap (yell), the brick should be blown apart.  I definitely weigh enough, I'm definitely fast enough, I'm definitely strong enough, and I definitely have the technique.  It really is just the fact that its all I'm worrying about.

This week in general has gotten hectic, I've got two co-op interviews, new position in my engineering group, and then black belt. Gonna be a good week!