Kevin “Big K” Taylor has made it in Ripley’s Believe It or Not book for karate chopping through six bricks. With a 4th degree black belt, this multiple world champion and record holder in the sport of speed brick-breaking puts on quite a show, but he’s a sweet, polite, mild-mannered person who doesn’t believe in violence.
The 6-foot 285-pound Taylor says, “Violence is a sign of insecurity. Violent people are afraid of themselves…. That brick ain’t gonna change because it can’t talk. It can’t move. … When you are relaxed inside and don’t want to hurt anyone, that’s how I work. I don’t let that brick stop me.”
The 6-foot, 285-pound champion has traveled around the world appearing on Japanese, Italian, Turkish, US television, including Fox Sports Best Damn Sports Show, NBC’s America’s Got Talent and NBC’s Today Show Live at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
As a teacher Big K says, “Yes, I do it to motivate my students. I do it to show that you don’t have to be built like Bruce Lee to be a great martial artist. You don’t have to kick the lights out to be a martial artist.”
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Karate instructor chops his way into Ripley’s Believe It or Not book – The Macomb Daily
