Cool. That's well before my time...I wasn't even born until almost a decade after that and never cared much for Bruce Lee flicks. I've just heard a bunch of jokes along the same lines over the years and they amuse me.
We don't break boards as a fighting drill. The purpose is to condition and streighten your bones - allowing for full force techniques.
Your bones are supposed to get stronger from doing it. Here is one source why: [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgF-WDkhkOk"]Superhuman block break - YouTube[/ame] Explanation at 2:23
Conditioning for breaking is done elsewhere and manifests in the breaking - makiwara, trees, pillars, logs etc... all condition the hand so when a break is attempted of the type shown above the skeletal structure can take it. That's identical to a bodybuilder damaging the muscle and having it regrow and repair. Very, very few break to the level shown above and the breaking seen in 99% of schools has zero to do with conditioning the body. Literally anyone can break a board if they commit to it - the impressive thing about the videos Earl posted in the difficulty of the technique used, not the material
That's because most modern schools outside of maybe some parts of Japan and Korea are watered down and kid friendly. The breaker is a guiness record holder - I was simply showing at which direction it will lead you. Speaking of breaking as a hole - including escalation.
Hannibal is correct. You are wrong. Conditioning is done (In part) as a preperation for beaking. That is what the video says.
The video says "years of training". The preparation and application could be both hardening of the bones. One does not exclude the other. I don't see why you would be commited to the view that the actual application (breaking) is having no effect on the streightening process of the bones. Do you in fact have any source for such sweeping statements?
The only conditioning I believe you'll gain from the actual breaking itself, in my experience at least, is the over coming of mental obstacles/psychological barriers - Committing 100%, and throwing everything you have in to the technique, despite the inherent 'Dangers' in what you are doing. Even then, if it is a break that you have already repeated previously in practice, the benefit of this mental conditioning will be lessened. "We recently did a demo and I made people do breaks they had never attempted before - I made sure that I also did a break that I'd never done before. I don't mind telling you that I was worried about it and I definitely needed the adrenalin of the public performance to do it." - Gavin Mullholland Kind Regards, Travess
Look again at the video with the explanation for "Micro Fractures" and healing etc. . The same info is available from all over the net. Saying the breaking strengthens / hardens the bones is like saying "Running a Marathon" helps your endurance. The effect is nominal when compared to all the training that leads up to the marathon. Similarly it's like a strength contest. The actual contest does litle to develop your strength. Again, it's all the training that leads up to the event that develops the strength. FWIW I have been doing regular bone contioning for about 24 years now. Now do you see why I am committed to the view?
That is just clutching at straws - It could also include wearing a tutu and eating freeze dried monkey turds...but it doesn't The effect is absolutely minimal because the conditioning is done prior to the breaking at the high level. At low level no conditioning is required HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Never has the phrase "pot meet kettle" been more apt! You were wrong, deal with it
In the case of fractures (which ultimately streightens the bone), my instructor suffered it during one of his breakings, not the prior work. Breaking then clearly did contribute to the hardening process.
He performed countless breaking demonstrations in his youth. That's why. This guy is also pictured next to some general you might have heard of. I won't tell you what he thinks of me, in case you might throw up.
Not getting it are you? He ballsed up the demo, broke his hand and using THE PROGRESSIVE TRAINING METHODOLOGY theory described earlier it grew back stronger His opinion of you is irrelevant because you are still wrong
Forging posts, knuckle press-ups and similar training are used for conditioning, not breaking, just as Earl Weiss said. Mitch
There was no admission of inaccuracy. On the contrary, he displayed the broken knuckle in a positive way. Simply performing so much elaborate demonstration caused it. His words, not mine.
