freeze it -- try not to agitate when frozen.. decapitated trichomes (brittle!) are less optimal for bubble hash (relative to a sieving process), for example... if using a solvent or oil etc, it won't matter as it dissoves anything that it extracts and the shape of it before is irrlevant. beat it up all you want for butter/oil/butane type extractions. as physically beating it up doesn't change the molecules that will dissolve. in that context, can be at bottom of a freezer with lbs of meat on top if you want, for bubble, try to put it somewhere it won't be manhandled or crushed.