Written by Kurt Busiek!

The coconut bit was something Kurt allowed me to squeeze in.
During my early days of martial arts training in Kali, we used to break 2
by fours or four one inch pines with no spacers in a similar manner.
You have to keep your fingertips touching the boards at all times and then you
blast through them.
It's all about body mechanics and teaching that the power begins from the base
of the body not the arms.

A fellow Sayoc Kali instructor named Thomas Kier, shatters coconuts with his
palm strike.
I combined that to the fingertip "no spacing" method above - the no inch punch...

Of course, Conan can pull that off and not even miss a beat.