Breaking a board with a spear finger:

[Aodhan]

If you want a cool break that isn't that hard, practice breaking with a "cupped" hand. Once you get that, you can awe your students by breaking with an egg in your hand.

Aodhan

[Cybren]

Oh yes, i was definitly gonna learn that one!

[bushido_man96]

I have done a spear thrust, with three fingers, through a very thin, I think one-half or three-quarters inch thick board. It was cool, even though the board was lame. Thought about trying it again.

Ever done top-of-the-foot round kick breaks? I like those, too.

[granmasterchen]

yes, spearhanding through materials is true and done in the same manner as you would a fist, elbow, or foot, with practice and conditioning.

One of the tasks of our black belt test, not sure what dan it was but that doesn't matter. In the situation we are given one of those large 15 gallon buckets or something of similar size and we place a lone apple in the middle of the bottom of the bucket, we then fill the bucket up with sand and you have to spear hand through it and pull out the apple on your spear hand in one quick clean strike.

so my advice would be to start conditioning, get yourself a small bowl and fill it with dried peas, and spear hand it and slowly over time move up to tougher material like sand, BBs/iron berrings, eventually you can use gravel and rough tree bark ....you get the idea, i'm sure you can find the list of materials on line if you do a search for conditioning your hands for breaking or something like that.

[jaymac]

I think it can be done with proper conditioning. I too saw a clip of an instructor doing this on one of Discovery's Martial Arts programs. I had an instructor who would drill his index finger (very slowly mind you) into a red brick at least 1/2 inch deep. He did this for demonstrations. He broke his index finger everytime he did it. It was amazing, but I always wondered why he would do that for entertainment, because the end result was painful. As much as I love MA, I never thought that was MA skill. Just mind over matter sort of thing.

[Fairfax_Uechi]

It can be done with proper conditioning. I know of several Uechi folks that can do it. The key is like any conditioning and building up over time. I'm still working towards this, and feel like another year or so and I'll be ready. And FYI, after my eyes, I consider my fingers one of the most important parts of my body so I'm extremely careful with how I treat them.

[tsdkid]

First off its very posible.My instructor went trogh 7

1inc sement tiles.with a spear hand.And countlis pine with spear finger.hes only suferd miner injers on.on the spear hand no injurys.so yes it can be done