Poor little wooden board. Hold still by two people while a third one is falling down from the sky only to break you apart. How unfair! This is one rare instance where taekwondo proverbial loyalty faints. Paradoxes aside, this makes me think of all the times in this sport you know something bad is coming but you can't do anything to stop it. When you dramatically miss your opponent and you're left with only kissing their next kick; when you're waiting for the poomsae score of someone who's just performed much better than you; when you take a false step during a demonstration and you can't help losing your balance in front of a giggling crowd.
I guess now you're expecting some inspirational lesson from this, but the best I can say is that sometimes boards just won't break, no matter how many times they got hit. Just try to keep this in mind when you take a hard beat, not while you're jumping over a hill of crouching gym mates.
