Here is a question I have been pondering and I hope someone who knows more than I do can answer it. If you are designing a coaster, especially a woodie, why build it if you have to break it? I realize you have to have a point or 2 for safety, emergency stops which would be left off unless needed and an end of ride break run but wouldn't it be more cost effective especially from a long term maintenance stand point to design the ride so you can transfer from element to element without mid ride breaking? It seems to me if the ride could run in a continious flow, it would be a better, more exciting ride. Any thoughts or comments?

Sure. One word, or more properly, acronym:

GCII.

I'm done now.

For the opposite:

S & S. See especially Hellcat aka Puma aka J2 aka Tsunami.

don't they need the mid ride breaks for the blocking system?

The Kentucky Rumbler didn't have a single break till the end!

Magnetic breaks require little maintance and it will reduce the wear and tear on the trains, and the wooden structure. Yea its more fun to fly threw the course but it will save the park money in the long run and probaly less complaints about a ride being too rough from park guest.

The Kentucky Rumbler didn't have a single break till the end!

....which was built by....GCII.