Effortless Board breaking!

Posted on Categories Muscles, Other than chess, QiuYu Huang

 As an eleven-year-old karate student, after approximately 6 months’ practice under his orange belt, Qiuyu finally did his 6 kyu exam last Satauday.

Breaking, a practice of tameshiwari, requires speed, focus and determination, which are Qiuyu’s strength (well, parts of his many strengths).  I don’t remember Qiuyu practice his breaking skills except he did constantly do his judo-chopping pencils with his school buddies.

He did surprisingly well: breaking the wood one time, clean, neat, quick, that’s it: