Maggie’s So do you hate boards??? Korean Performance Taekwondo team smash some boards!!!
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Fantastic feats of gymnastics and agility. My wife uses some of those techniques to kill spiders on the ceiling.
My two oldest girls 16 and 14) just passed their 2nd degree black belt testing in TKD. I'll be showing them this tonight!
More like 1/2" x 12" Balsa!
Nice Trickery! Miss The Kick - just drop the board, or have the holder just snap it
Cool $#!@ for Hollywood Movies!
Yeah, those types of performances seem like they are really just to showcase gymnastics and dexterity skills, not strength.
They are most likely 1" pine boards. But, they are cut and held (and stressed while held) to break along the grain. My elder son did TKD for several years and broke crap tons of these boards before he ever turned 10. Board breaking is a cool demonstration, but I don't think it is meant to show strength. I think it is meant to show the overcoming of mental barriers. If you think you cannot break a board, you cannot. Once you know you can, breaking them- even several stacked together- is pretty easy. His instructor had a picture of himself next to a stack of concrete pavers he had broken. The stack was sufficiently tall that he had to stand on a not-insubstantial ladder to get in position to break them. He was not a physically imposing person, but he broke every one with a single strike.
edit- ok, those in the video do not look like 1" boards...
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