(The picture are for real, the ice is not prepared or has been under high temperature to make them easier to break!

In Kyokushin you break ice, baseball bats, wood, bottles and other subject as you mention yourself, and NONE of the objects is "prepared", so they are easier to break.

The purpose for breaking Baseball bats with your shin, or breaking big blocks of ice with your fist or elbows are many, but primary to show your strength - and how far and how strong you can make your body.

In tournaments you use Tameshiwari to select a winner in a fight. If two fighters are even and if there is no weight different between them, the one who break most boards wins the fight. The boards are 1 inch thick, and you have to break the boards in these 4 different ways:

1 knuckle (Minimum is 2 boards)
2 Palm (Minimum is 2 boards)
3 elbow (Minimum is 2 boards)
4 fod (Minimum is 2 boards)

Sergey Plekhanov from Russia broke 29 boards by knuckle, palm, elbow and food... And that is a hell of a lot boards. I cant remember when I have heard about another fighter in the world, breaking more than 29 boards? I know that Lechi Kurbanov also did break 29 boards in the American open in year 2002, but never heard of any break more than 29 boards!)rewg

Hi guys, i@ve been away for a while i am actually in Japan at the moment and I am loving it I`ve been here for two months and I am currently training at Sensei Nicholas Pettas dojo, i`ve also been offered a professional contract by his team so thing are going sweet. Oliver about the boards Sensei Walter Schnaubelt `wally` actually holds the record with 30 boards at the 1995 world open i belive but i could be wrong, i also attended the last world open and it was really good although there were some dodgy desicions.
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