Anyone Know/Want to Know how to break 5 Inches of Pine with Gyaku-Tsuki ?

[Lloydie]

Biggest problem with Tameshigiri (Wood breaking) is expense ! The wood costs a lot of money to buy and cut to size...and all we do is smash them and throw them away.

There are however re-breakable plastic boards of varying difficulty. The black one being almost impossible to break without proper technique.



Huw...... BRING THE BOARD ON THURSDAY !

 

  Oh no!  Not that bloody thing!!!   

[Thomas N]

SO ARE YOU GOING TO TELL US OR NOT?

[JimmyTheHoover]

SO ARE YOU GOING TO TELL US OR NOT?

Spoken with a Robert Deniro accent - "Are You Talking To ME ?"

[Shari]

  Yes Huw bring the white board as well, I was going to ask Moley on Monday if Arth could bring his camera to take some action photo's of me to put in my karate album, before my hip starts to really give me hell. A photo of me braking a board would be brilliant.

Moley can he please come on Thursday then.... 

[Huw]

Yes Huw bring the white board as well

I don't have a white board

... before my hip starts to really give me hell.

You too? 

[Shari]

  Bring all your boards even the one with the padding please.

[gungnir]

I will bring the board if I remember.

[JimmyTheHoover]

I will bring the board if I remember.

Don't forget the Ironing Board ! 

[Emma]

I will bring the board if I remember.

Can I have a go?not that I'm promissing to break any kind of board.....I'll try though

[Lloydie]

I've got a few of the board - I'll bring the white one - only problem with these type of boards is that they tend to have a bit of a sharpish edge to them until they have been broken a few times.

Bringing padded gloves will be a good idea

[Hong Kong Cheungy]

eh every1 i broken a brick da oda day wen i was with ma mate, he was impressed, it isnt reli dat hard uno, but for some reason choppin it breaks its a lot easyer then punchin it,

but anyway, 5 inches of pine wood?? u meant 5 inches thick??? or s it jut this sheet dat s 5 inches big?????

cheungy

[Thomas N]

eh every1 i broken a brick da oda day wen i was with ma mate, he was impressed, it isnt reli dat hard uno, but for some reason choppin it breaks its a lot easyer then punchin it,

but anyway, 5 inches of pine wood?? u meant 5 inches thick??? or s it jut this sheet dat s 5 inches big?????

cheungy

 Alex can you please stop writing in text its starting to give me a headache reading it

[Hong Kong Cheungy]

sorry, i try not to from now on

[JimmyTheHoover]

but anyway, 5 inches of pine wood?? u meant 5 inches thick??? or s it jut this sheet dat s 5 inches big?????

Hi Alex - the original concept behind asking the question was really just to get people thinking about the technique involved  in Tameshiwara/Breaking - but the "5 inches of pine" was refering to breaking 5 1 inch thick pine boards one on top of the other 

but for some reason choppin it breaks its a lot easyer then punchin it,

Probably means that your punching incorrectly - maybe not using the correct part of the fist or wrist alignment is out allowing the punching forse to be dissipated.....

[Hong Kong Cheungy]

surpose yeah, i will try agen with with my punch, s it reli posibble though? coz 5 inchs of wood s kinda thick, and pine is kind of hard too, i can break mdf n stuff like dat with ma punch, but i will try with ma fist n i shall buy some pine tomorrow, i will tell you how it goes,  can u break 5 inches of pine??