06/07/2021
An important often overlooked and misunderstood part of martial arts training is “breaking” Bruce Lee was famous for saying “boards don’t hit back” while that is true, there’s a Tora Dojo expression “ you can’t trick brick” meaning, in breaking either you have the power or you don’t. The brick doesn’t care how fancy your move is, and doesn’t care about your feelings. If you can’t generate the power, you can’t break the brick, plain and simple. If you don’t have the power, then your technique is ineffective. Power is not the only thing that matters in a technique, but it is extremely important. Breaking measures your power and conversion of energy into power.
