How many boards can you break with or against the grain?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Earlier today I was testing how many boards I could break cross-grain with a front thrust kick. I broke two simultaneously. I did not have enough boards to try 3. I was also able to break two oak bed posts using cross-heel stomp kicks, which in a cage fight I'd be targeting the opponent's thigh with this type of kick.

I broke 1 board cross-grain with a clinch into knee strike motion. I did this twice. If I hit another human that hard in the face It would probably seriously injure them.

0 boards

1 boards

2 boards

3 or more

[Redstang88]

Never tried more than 1 and hurt myself doing that

[SeekerOfTruth007]

There's a technique to breaking boards. I saw a video where 4th degree black belt Jesse Encamp taught an unskilled woman to break 4 boards with a karate chop, but it was with the grain and it was ponderosa pine, which is one of the weakest types of wood you can buy.

Today, I was breaking synthetic particle boards cross-grained, which should be harder than breaking ponderosa pine with the grain.

[Fireguy17]

I use a chain saw so somewhere around 35" worth.

[strateguy632]

zero

[LemiaOfThunder]

Not strong enough