Ribs are more flexible opposed to pine boards, but still, 3 boards without spacers is pretty solid! Full respect. ✊🏻👍

"In Karate, unlike Boxing or other forms of combat, great emphasis is placed on proper technique and focus." Oh please. There's no technique in boxing? Or other martial arts? What a silly statement.

Not wishing to Mr Ed Parker in this video, a true legend in his time, but I can't help thinking how much he looks like ex British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson in a Gi with white hair, rather than blond ! 🤣 Obviously Mr Parker is more than ten times the man that buffoon will ever be !

His last comment sort of mirrors the phrases, 'winning the war without firing a shot' or perhaps even 'the art of fighting, without fighting'. I remember reading somewhere ages ago, that some folks turned up at a session where Bruce Lee was teaching, intent on causing trouble, so Bruce got his two best students front and centre, to execute a technique he had shown them. The 'visitors' were suitably chastened and went on their way. That's the rumour anyway.

Parker is GAY!!! nIOce bleached hire!!

Billy blanks

I met Ed Parker in London at an Elvis fun club, we shock hands and he showed me the ring Elvis had gifted him ... RIP

Absolute nonsense

One thing that i appreciate about Ed Parker breaking the boards in this video is he didnt feel the need to still hit the guys holding the boards for him unlike Steven Seagal in Jesse's video who broke the board and still smacked the young man in the face in the process its kinda dickish

Is anyone still impressed with breaking pine boards? Try 1/4 inch plywood and finger strikes.

Anyone can break 3 boards, but it takes a LOT of skill to break them as casually as he did. Especially with that front kick, he was talking to the camera and just flicked that foot out there. Not everyone can do that. Ohhhhh, I just read the description. The black guy is Billy Blanks???? That guy has some serious moves, I love watching him in movies! That's cool that he trained with Ed Parker! 👍💪

Bruce Lee could break that with the holder using only one hand

Always thought this dude was Billy Stanley ELVIS half brother

In the first 13 seconds he just underlines Point Karate wasnt full contact fighting. But yet today there are some ppl on YT and other plattforms who try to sell it as "real" fighting. It was a tagging game. A rough tagging game but still a tagging game. That stuff wont help you much in full contact be in sport or in the street.

Mr. Chong

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Boards don't hit back.

Rubbish i was breaking 5 boards when 6kyu

he is almost as good as Benny Hill doing that con BS kung fu....LOL

Hmm.. clean breaks with no splintering at all at the breaking point. Must be breaking that balsa wood right on the grain line or pre-cut.

Dude still gets to me 50 years later. RIP Master Parker

Boards don't hit back.

Panda skills

Ya ok gang ,breaking a very dry piece of softwood (ie pine or spruce etc)can be achieved with grandma level power ,many of these phony bullshit guys never fought anybody ever in real fighting combat but thousands of pee wee Hermann halfwits followed these idiots

It would be awful nice if people would stop holding his nuts. If I understood correctly, he just indicated that karate, unlike boxing and other disciplines, focuses on form, etc. That sounds elitist, and it’s certainly false. My guess: he never fought a quality boxer.

Ed Parker like me wasn't missing any meals.

Breaking a piece of foam doesn't mean a fuckin thing.

Billy ?

Board breaking is a useful tool, mainly for building confidence and because people think it's cool. It's not hard, you don't really break the board as much as split it across the grain. The secret is the board holder; if they know how to select the boards, align them, and then hold them then all you have to do is hit them hard. Before she passed I got my grandmother to break three one inch pine boards with a sword hand. She did it on her first try, at age 84, with maybe three minutes of training. A good board holder can get almost anyone to break at least two boards with almost no training.

That kick was like he was stuck in molasses..

He broke a lot of ribs in this video….

Take out the guns and settle it. None of this bullshit. Life is too short to waste doing marshal arts every day.

What we must remember is that the boards are being "supported." They are braced. A human is moving and is not braced. A kick or punch might just glance the ribs. The boards being held are stationary. You might strike or kick and if the boards were moving backwards, the strike or kick might have little impact. Pine is a fairly easy wood to break compared to oak. Oak is considered a "hardwood" while pine is considered a "softwood." On the other hand, American Kenpo is a great no nonsense martial art.

Edd parker, a gentleman

I never knew Capt kangaroo was a martial artist

Big eddy. Killin me with his romper room easy to learn concepts. Thanks for everything

im not in the kempo or boxing camp but did he say that karate unlike boxing places great emphasis on technique! Any martial art worth its salt HAS to rely on its technique.

Ed Parker has got a BIG FAT BELLY , it was good if he had trained his body as well when he was still alive , Kenpo Karate is a good Martial Arts for Street Fights mainly .

Ed Parker was a wise man.)and from his fighting style it looks that he was in a lot of street fights in his life.

Was that Billy Blanks on the right of him?

isso é um grande charlatanismo pois quebrar estes gravetos não é nada eu sou RYU TETSU eu sou praticante faixa preta de karatê kyokushin shotokan muay thay e jiu-jitsu da Osvaldo Alves treino a mais de 36 anos e faço minhas as palavras do eterno BRUCELE a madeira não revida osu kombawa !!!

The bodyguard of elvis

wow a one inch pine board hahaha in my kempo school green belts practiced braking 2 inch concrete padio blocks as a brown belt i could break ten of them ,this is so pathetic laughable at best

No me gusta para nada la técnica de Ed Parker. Se que fue un precursor de las Artes Marciales modernas y tiene grandes méritos, pero me sorprendió lo limitada que es su técnica. Practique Artes Marciales por un tiempo y después he visto y analizado varios sistemas con los años.

I like ed parker because defeated bruce,and his big mistake was to give him some books

Joe was dedicated to Martial art all his life. He deserved every success. RIP Joe.

Looks like a goof.

"Unlike boxing and other forms of combat"....Ok

...but to "damagestrate" that you could have.

I remember Ed in the Pink Panther movies.