hard body training

[little kicker]

just wondering does any one here do this?e.g. to break boards and breaks.i know its a requament in the black belt grading,but whats the training like?

thanks

[Shotokan-kez]

Hi, a requirement for which black belt grading? Are you talking about tkd? I have never broken boards or anything, we don't do it in karate.

[P.A.L]

we do forearm and shin conditioning but no board breaking. there was a good thread on conditiong 2 months ago , search for that thread.

[bushido_man96]

We don't do any special conditioning to break boards, but on the same token, we don't break lots of boards at a time. Most breaks only require two boards at a time.

[Jeet Kune Do]

I know this is not good but I do it anyway, I love to go in my garden and find some wood and break it

[bushido_man96]

I know this is not good but I do it anyway, I love to go in my garden and find some wood and break it

I like sizing up pieces of wood and asking myself, "Wonder if I can break that?" Hehe, goofy, I guess, but we live for it, right?

[granmasterchen]

i've done body conditioning, breaking and vital area conditioning for years, so if you're curious just send me a pm and i'll get back to you instead of filling up a whole page here.

[Brandon Fisher]

I do a lot of conditioning for blocking purposes and being able to get hit and be able to handle it better. However we do break we don't do alot of it and it is not a requirement for any rank.

[bushido_man96]

Once we get to brown belt level in our style, breaking is required at testing. Lo brown: hand technique (ladies can do elbow strike); Mid brown: foot technique; Hi brown: two foot techniques.

[little kicker]

thank you all for your replies well i was just curious really how hands are conditioned so hard to break boards.i dont do it in my styles but i was thinking of maybe trying it to improve my punches