Mercutio wrote:

In the last chapter of Shampoo 1/2 I posted, several people have asked

me

 how is it Ukyou knew the 'Bakusaii Tenketsu' to blow Tessai into tiny
 pieces.

Actually, we weren't wondering HOW Ukyo knew the technique, we were

wondering

why it worked to blow Tessai apart. The Bakusai Tenketsu doesn't work on
living things, remember? Only rocks or other similarly non-living things.

Err...well, Tessai's skin actually changes into rock, which was the state
he was in at the time. Underneath is certainly blood and bone, but I
considered his stony epidermis to be 'non-living' enough for the Bakusai
Tenketsu to work. 

Now I can also see an argument being made that since it is Tessai's skin,
and he is a living being, then the rock would qualify as being 'alive'
enough for the Bakusai Tenketsu to fail, but I am writing under the
assumption it would work on him. (Besides, I enjoyed having the evil
bastard blown into tiny pieces too ^_^)

You
CAN'T use it to blow somebody else apart.

Unless you make it so that you hit the breaking points on their bones, in
which case it is no longer Tenketsu, it is Bakusai Tensatsu, a 

technique

pioneered by RpM.

Thanks for reading, by the way.

D.B. Sommer