What do you think about board breaking?

[unknown]

breaking boards is kinda corny. i don't think it is a viable guage for testing a persons power. a black belt who can break a board with a side kick doesnt necessarily mean that his side kick is extremely powerful or anything....nor do i think that board breaking can help you with your power - mike tyson never broke boards in his training and we all know that being hit by him would feel like being hit by a mack truck.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

.....pah.

 

you japanese style wimps.

 

us chinese style guys break rocks!

 

big fat rocks,

 

with our balls,

 

whilst standing on a bed of nails,

 

on a board floating in a pool of water,

 

whilst being forced to listen to spice girls

 

and watching bey-blade...

 

Not withstanding the amount of offense I take to being called a "Japanese style" , most of that I could handle..but while listening to the Spice Grils? Man, that's pure TORTURE!!!

[Drunken Monkey]

okokok, okinawan style guys.....

 

sheesh, so touchy.

[Luckykboxer]

you have a sense of humor? I missed it i guess hehe

 

my point was that you are throwing a backhanded riddicule of anyone choosing the break boards option.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

you have a sense of humor? I missed it i guess hehe

 

Why do I suddenly feel so much like a nose? Everybody's pickin' on me!

my point was that you are throwing a backhanded riddicule of anyone choosing the break boards option.

 

I'm not trying to ridicule anybody for what they chose to do, but rather to state my viewpoint that I feel breaking isn't useful, nor that difficult. Oh sure, start getting into multiple bricks..yeah, that's a different story. I'm talking about 1-2 boards. Not that tough. I've seen young kids that can do that. What does it prove?

[karatekid1975]

My school doesn't break boards till red and black belt level tests. But we do have kindling .... I mean, breaking week once a year. It is a good time, and I do have a woodstove, which means we get all the broken boards Free kindling

 

I can see how it can help with focus, but not power. Most people in my school break with speed and proper technique, not power. At least, that's how I do it.

 

I saw a young red belt (skinny little guy) break two boards with a side kick. He has really good technique, but he didn't use power. But I also saw an adult try the same thing, and he bounced off of the boards. So I personally think it's technique, not power.

[CapitalKarate]

if you're supposed to see how good your technique is, why don't you substitute the boards/bricks for your sensei? he/she can judge how well you kick or punch and if you utterly sucked he can just kick you back

[aefibird]

he/she can judge how well you kick or punch and if you utterly sucked he can just kick you back

 

Oh, you try it first and we'll all come visit you in hospital...

[DLopez]

I believe they were 12"x12"x1"..that's pretty standard isn't it?

 

I don't know if there's a standard , but try shortening the boards a couple inches each side to 10"x10"x1". That's more the size of the boards we break.

 

Then, you can stack multiple boards together, and if that's still too easy, don't put a spacer in between the boards.

 

There's all kinds of ways to make board breaking tougher.

[Vito]

i dont really see the point in it.