Power Breaking - Elbow Strike

dab86

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Are they breaking with their elbow or their forearm primarily? What is the proper technique? Palm facing up or toward the body? Seems like most of these guys are using mainly forearm.

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Are they breaking with their elbow or their forearm primarily? What is the proper technique? Palm facing up or toward the body? Seems like most of these guys are using mainly forearm.

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Depends which elbow strike.
 

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Are they using their forearm or elbow. The strike everyone uses in power breaking.

There is no strike that "everyone uses in power breaking."
Off the top of my head, I personally have done demo breaks with forward upward elbow, forward lateral elbow, rearward upward elbow, rearward elbow, downward elbow with the fist upright or horizontal, lateral elbow....
Elbow strikes, by definition, are done with the elbow. But it's not uncommon for part of the forearm or upper arm to also make contact, depending on the exact details of the break and how perfectly it is performed. A very slight change in the motion is all that is needed to change from a "pure" elbow strike to one that include at least a part of the forearm or upper arm.
 

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