It Only Hurts When You Don’t Break The Board

Jeff Fox
5 min readFeb 7, 2020

A tale of the horrible sounds made when the board doesn’t break.

Board breaking is a long-standing staple of martial arts demonstration. It’s a flashy and dramatic manifestation of focus and precision which gets audience adrenaline pumping. Breaking a single board is not necessarily the most difficult thing, five year olds are fully capable of it, but it is by no means a guaranteed…

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Jeff Fox

A professional dancer, choreographer, theatre creator, and featured TEDx speaker with an honours degree in psychology, two black belts, and a lap-top.