No board breaking, bare-knuckled fighter here -- just a sweet 12 year old girl that could really make the moves. (...It doesn't hurt that her dad is an instructor and black belt, and coached her throughout the shoot...)
I had fun doing this shoot, but the tricky part was freezing the movement on her flying kicks. I tried to use the Nikon's fastest strobe sync speed of 250sec., but due to the delay of the wireless PocketWizard sync, I had to settle on 125sec. Not very fast shen the feet are flying fast in the air. It took plenty of takes to get just the right mixture of freeze-frame and action blur.
A side note to this: I didn't even know that there was a delay with the PocketWizards, and apparently neither did Nikon. We found out together at Nikon headquarters, after an hour or so in their studios, trying every-which-way to figure out why I was getting a vignette when going higher the 125sec. The guys at Nikon were incredibly patient and methodical -- (I thought my camera was at fault and gave them a bit of a hard time in the beginning) -- hats off to some real pros.
