Taekwondo | Timo Jansson stacked fourteen roof tiles on top of each other and hit – Twelve breaks brought the world championship

Timo Janssonin, 52, the finger joints of the right fist show bruises of different ages. The knuckles can be imagined to have hit somewhere, several times. Cartilage covering the outer edge of the fist and the side of the wrist.

The fist is now in better condition than in July 2019, when Jansson competed in the World Taekwondo (WT) Hanmadang Championships in the Olympic city of Pyeongchang in South Korea. The sport was fist power breaking with a fist straight down.

At that time, the damage had already occurred during the training eleven days before the races. The ice wore out.

“A couple of days earlier, I was wondering if the races would be anything,” Jansson says.

Qualifying At the same time, Jansson confirmed and tested his fists. He broke seven roof tiles and made little progress to the final ten.

More ice was needed.

After the break in the final, Jansson stacked fourteen bricks, one over the world record for the sport. He jumped into the air, loading his hand at the same time and pounding his fist down on the brick. Twelve broke down.

With that result, Jansson won the unofficial world championship in the sport.

“To two the week before the race is not worth crushing, ”says Jansson.

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“I have to get in the air.”

Jansson won silver in Hanmadang races a year earlier on the island of Jeju in South Korea. Then eleven bricks broke.

“After the 2018 race, I was at the gym almost every day. I went through all the techniques and checked the performances. For example, jumping – how far I can gather strength. I have to get in the air, ”says 177-centimeter Jansson.

“In 2019, three of the 28 riders in our series used jumping technology.”

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“It’s often an idea that crushing requires a lot of force.”

Jansson family – father Timo, mother Soil frost, 46, and son Jonathan, 21 – practice WT taekwondo. The style is known especially from the Olympic match, less from crushing.

Crushing competes more regularly in another style of taekwondo, the ITF Taekwon-doo under the International Taekwondo Federation. Timo Jansson received his first crushing lessons at the age of 20 at ITF clubs in Vaasa and Sweden.

He started boxing at the age of ten in Vaasa, strength training in middle school and adolescence in American football.

Timo Jansson’s Speed ​​and Explosiveness came into its own as the center striker of American football in the Wasa Warriors and later in the ranks of the Lohja Lions. At his best, he has pinched a hundred in 11.2 seconds and weighed 165 pounds off the bench.

In 2016, Lohja Lions played against Estonia. In the game, Jansson broke two ribs.

“Kirsi said that’s enough.”

Yankee football career after graduation, Jansson focused on martial arts.

Taekwondo also went wild with his son and wife. Jonathan Jansson, who has a karate background, started taekwondo in 2010. Kirsi Jansson, who has been involved in many sports, became interested in the sport three years later.

“When men were always training, they had to try it for themselves,” he says.

“It was more fun than I thought. Kicking is so terribly fun. ”

Today, all Jansons tie a black belt of taekwondo on their waist. Timo’s belt value is the fourth dan, Kirsi and Jonathan’s second dan.

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“In crushing, I can focus on the moment, the end result is decisive.”

Janssoneita hooked by crushing, for which the family hopes a more serious form of competition for domestic WT taekwondo.

Enthusiastic feedback on the crushing has come from women in particular: not everyone who wants to compete in taekwondo will bend to the precise techniques of the series or the rhythm of the match.

There will be two performances in the movement series that will last about a minute and will be evaluated by the jury during them. For Kirsi Jansson, it’s been a long time.

“In crushing, I can focus on the moment, the end result is decisive.”

An explosive act is like a javelin throw, for example.

In competitions the components are usually force, skill, speed, track and team crushing. Timo Jansson is fond of power crushing, either with a punch or a knife down.

Jonathan Jansson makes a rebound with the kickback.

“I also like punching straight ahead,” he says.

“Jonathan has really fast hands, he could have even boxed,” says Timo Jansson.

Kirsi Jansson, for her part, got excited about speed crushing while watching the Hanmadang race in 2019.

“I hadn’t seen speed breaking at all in the races before South Korea.”

In the wake of Timo, Kirsi and Jonathan want to try competing abroad.

“The intention was to go already in the summer of 2020, but the races ended with the pandemic,” says Kirsi Jansson.

Janssonien they don’t have to leave their home to train very long, as they have a 25-square-foot crushing studio in the yard.

A stand for holding the crushing discs has been purchased there. It was done by an ITF acquaintance Rafael Kesti From Raseborg. An official race stand for downward crushing has been imported from South Korea.

The studio also has a selection of crushing materials, a bursting Prize Cabinet and signed crushing discs as memories of the belt tests. Dried dark red roses hang in the doorway, a wedding bouquet from Kirsi and Timo from 1996.

In crushing utilizes body movement for charging, which can be reinforced by body rotations and mobility exercises. Pounds help when you hit weights in your hands, for example. Resistance rubber straps attached to the foot are suitable for boosting kicks.

The Jansons also use a lot of video.

“You can see really well from the videos, because the details of fast technologies are not visible to the eye,” says Kirsi Jansson.

According to him, the details are decisive. She works as her husband’s coach abroad.

“It’s often an idea that crushing requires a lot of force. I looked at my opponents in the first race that there is no seam against those huge shoulders, ”says Timo Jansson.

“But there are so many areas of technology in crushing that need to succeed.”

Timo Jansson has recorded eleven passages that facilitate success in crushing. Which ones are the most important?

“The will that you dare to beat, and the psyche,” he mentions first.

The second is to exploit the whole body. If you hit with your hand alone, you will not get enough power.

“Power speed,” Jansson lists third.

As he teaches, he first looks at how the student is hitting.

“I start with the basics of traffic, such as managing the entire body, using a support leg, and how it hits the destination,” Jansson says.

“Almost everyone needs more mobility. I have corrected the technology with quite a few. Many do it as a snack and don’t hit it. ”

Timo Jansson shows himself as a model by taking the momentum with his hand and body from afar and even bending. Legs follow. The trajectories are vastly over what is done in the basic techniques of taekwondo.

CRUSHING MATERIAL working wall and roof tiles, wood panels, reassembled plastic panels, ice and ingots. Balloons and newspapers are suitable for children, for example.

As the material wears out, Timo Jansson massages the collaboration with the roof tile company. The company would have supplied brush bricks.

“No agreement was reached. They were afraid of a bad ad if the bricks get broken, ”Jansson says and laughs.

Hands are most commonly crushed with the fist or the palm of the hand, the outer edge of the foot, the toe or the heel of the foot. You can also crush with your fingertips, thumb, knee or elbow.

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“Pain is relevant. Three days cold, then it will pass. ”

In competitions crushed barefoot and by hand, but in practice, shields can – and should – be used. This saves the limbs from unnecessary injuries.

When hit, hit, or kicked hard and not hard at a hard target that doesn’t give way, it hurts.

“It hurts more if you don’t go through. Yes, it feels, ”says Kirsi Jansson.

“Someone feels like a coincidence, some uncomfortable. Redness and bruising. ”

Pain is relevant, says Timo Jansson.

“Three days in the cold, then it goes by. Care should be taken immediately – although cartilage may occur. We always have cooler bags with us. ”

Jansson has been spared no major injuries, as Timo’s footboard has now opened to the sharp edges of the plastic sheet. But other competitors have had accidents.

“Abroad, for example, one racer broke his forearm. On the other, a piece of brick went in between the knuckles and came out from the side of the palm. He didn’t notice the whole thing until others came to say it, ”Timo Jansson recalls.

When crushing gets inside, it becomes almost a science.

Timo Jansson says that he strives for perfection: speed, power, hit point, wholeness. “Maybe I’m doing it unnecessarily mathematically. For example, I may be wondering about Kirsi and Jonathan’s performance, why the two rear records are broken and not the front ones. ”

Crushing is challenging in a positive sense because it requires concentration, Kirsi Jansson says.

Janssonit founded a taekwondo club in 2016 called Espoo Taekwondo Academy, where the trio directs and coaches. Timo Jansson is the club’s head teacher and Jonathan Jansson’s executive director.

Crushing has been familiar to companions from the beginning. The youngest, 7–8-year-olds, initially meet in the newspapers.

The first belt tests mimic crushing techniques by hitting and kicking a kick cushion. In the black belt test, you have to control the crushing with a kickback kick.

Jansson emphasizes that crushing techniques or other taekwondo skills should not be used against friends. In everyday tasks, however, they can be useful – at least if the last name happens to be Jansson.

“Last summer, trees were felled terribly. No tools were needed to prune the branches of small aspens, ”says Kirsi Jansson.

“Vomited with a knife.“