Board Breaking Advice!?!?!?

Don't stress over it. Breaking is of no real importance anyway. Just do the side kick as your break. You have already developed the kick (according to what you said), so just do it and stop worrying. When the time comes to break, do not take practice runs, or measure the distance to the board. you should have developed the ability to know exactly where you should be before stepping to kick. Just do it. More people fail their breaking because they take time to try to measure distance, and psych themselves up. They end up only reducing their confidence and getting nervous. Best to just break the board rather than thinking about it. The amount of force necessary to break a board is only a fraction of power a side kick generates. Just do it...

Best of Luck!

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I remember for my last Tae Kwon Do shim sa I did a jump-front kick while my instructor stood on a chair holding the board. The audience seemed to like that. Maybe you'd like something more flashy. Just pick a technique you're comfortable with and can generate enough power accurately.

I must agree with Integrated Self Defense Systems, that board breaking is pretty pointless and shouldn't be part of a test. I've seen 5 year old girls break those boards like they were toothpicks. I was once told that in ancient Korea, the black belt test consisted of killing a prisoner with once strike. I'm not sure how accurate that is though.

Since breaking boards is pretty much a complete waste of time and energy then take the easy way out just to meet the requirements of the test. Board breaking and any breaking demonstrations are merely tools used to impress and attract the attention of people who know nothing about martial arts. In spite of what some people say, breaking a board is in no way an accurate measure of the effectiveness of a technique and is a poor measure of power.

If you don't want to take the "easy way out" then just double the amount of time and effort you put into your practice and training. The 30 seconds it takes to break a board isn't the type of challenge you should measure as "hard" or "easy".

Picking the more difficult technique for your test is like me deciding to write all my correspondence with my left hand because writing with my right hand is taking the easy way out.

Knife hands and back fists may prove impressive since they can still break boards without a large motion as long as you put the right snap into the move. Side kicks and back-turn side kicks are favorable too since a proper side kick requires plenty of fundamental elements in combination.

hi i have a few strategies you can try

1:relax don't tense and believe you can do it

2:try the side kick and still don't be tense just kick and try as hard as you can

3:practice it three times or so you will get it right

thats all i hope you pass bye

As a red belt, you should try:

- A jump kick (difficulty)

- A spinning whip kick

- A hook key.

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