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Using Elbows for Fun and Profit

postedby ericnguyen on November30th,2009 tagged instructables, personal

NoahW, of my last company Instructables.com, decided that it made sense to write an instructable on breaking wooden boards with no training. Here’s me giving my try:

Yes, it was fun. However, I was lying about the profit.

UPDATE: The full instructable that this video comes from is called “No-Experience-Necessary Board Breaking”. Below is the video from Step 4. Highlights include Sarah’s amazing face of joy upon board breakage and also Christy breaking a board while nursing her baby!

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