How Board Breaking Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever seen someone break a stack of boards or concrete blocks with a single karate chop you know what it means to experience awe. Board breaking is indeed cool but there’s also a lot of physics to help it along. Learn all about this secret art.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuffworks.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.1	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there and this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:51.0	All about Mars.
0:53.0	Oh wait, I mean it's all about board breaking.
0:56.9	That's right.
0:58.4	Board breaking.
0:59.4	I gotta keep them straight.
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1:17.6	That's the stuff you should know.
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