No-Experience-Necessary Board Breaking

Step 3 Get Set: The Board Breaker

This is the most important step, but also the simplest.

Put your dominant foot forward and towards the board holder.  Then, using your dominant hand/arm, hold your hand so that your fingertips are pointing towards the sky.  The goal is to hit the board with the heel of your hand, delivering the blow with the soft fleshy parts of your palm, and not at all with your fingers.  See the detail photos below.

Move your arm through the motion a few times so that your body can get used to the movement you are about to execute.

Once you feel like you've warmed up a bit and can visualize the heel of your hand hitting the center of the board and breaking through, pull your arm back one final time and gather your strength getting ready to break the board.

Comments

[dmastachief]

i also take karate and a friend studies xiaolin  and i tried this before reading this and before taking karate and i broke my wrist pretty bad the way its done is with the fist your middle knuckle and look thru where you want it to brake

[alexthebluebird]

ok gonna giveya some constructive comment. I take Tae Kwon Do and the strike you a doing is called a palm strike and how we do it is our thumb is tucked in and our fingers are straight. if you want u can c me @ a demo on youtube type in " Tomisha ( Bad Day) Riddle" or " McAlster Tae Kwon Do" if you lie seeing people break stuff.