Karate। 5 kumite techniques for competition

Karate। 5 kumite techniques for competition 

Here are some very basic kumite tips to help with your sparring, many karateka ignore these basic areas, in favor of intricate combinations and sparring drills. But these areas are what creates a great karateka!

While practicing you should be at full intensity, your attitude should be as if your life depended on every karate move and even though you are controling your strikes, you should have ‘the intent to do harm’ on every strike! Strong intend always!!

"Kumite is the spirit and Kata is the soul of karate, but without both, there is NO Karatedo!" 

1. Speed.

  When practicing at speed, you should be at maximum speed, try and move so fast you shock your opponent. As I stated in tip 3, try not to start slowly, then try and gather speed, or start fast and then slow down. From the start of the technique to the completion of the technique, move as fast as you possibly can.

2. Accuracy. 

Obviously, you need to hit the target! Try some target training under pressure.

3. Distance. 

If your distance is wrong, your karate techniques will be ineffective. Think of a magnifying glass, the sun and a piece of paper. If the sun, magnifying glass and paper are in aligned correctly, the paper WILL burn. So in karate, if your distance is good, your counter attacks and attacks will be effective. Karate classes are great for working on distance, concentrate on the basic sparring exercises, these will give you a good foundation for having correct distance later on.

4. Control. 

Attacks in the street can be vicious, people can and DO die! Most of the people (animals) who attack innocent people, DO NOT care if their victim lives or dies, in fact, most of these animals will continue attacking until their victim looks dead! This is something that nice people struggle to understand. So if you have been training correctly in the martial arts and some idiot decides to attack you, you may soon find yourself beating the attacker, if this happens, you must know when to stop, or pretty soon they may be locking you up and throwing away the key. Then of course, a nice lump of tax payers cash will be handed to your poor attacker, who will say he was the innocent person and you just started doing all this weird karate stuff, for absolutely no reason at all!

5. Intend

When practicing at full intensity, your attitude should be as if your life depended on every karate move and even though you are controling your strikes, you should have ‘the intent to do harm’ on every strike! Strong spirit always!!.Every attack must be made in the intend to make contact or damage.