Questions tagged [breaking-boards]

For a long time we would include board breaks as part of our belt tests as a demonstration, but in recent years have been moving increasingly away from doing them. While it can make for an impressive demonstration, is there any particular value in…

I've often heard in various martial arts circles a lot of claims regarding: The amount of force/pressure required to break a knee/ribcage/etc (e.g., the statement that a board is roughly equivalent to the ribs I've heard from multiple sources) The…