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.

Karate। origin and description

KARATE |Origin & Description

               Karate, (Japanese: “empty hand”) unarmed martial-arts discipline employing kicking, striking, and defensive blocking with arms and legs. Emphasis is on concentrating as much of the body’s power as possible at the point and instant of impact. Striking surfaces include the hands (particularly the knuckles and the outer edge), ball of the foot, heel, forearm, knee, and elbow. All are toughened by practice blows against padded surfaces or wood. Pine boards up to several inches in thickness can be broken by the bare hand or foot of an expert. Timing, tactics, and spirit, however, are each considered at least as important as physical toughening.

The philosophy behind karate is vast and complex. It stems from thousands of years of armed and unarmed combat. Techniques that were perfected hundreds of years ago are still being perfected over and over again by each new generation. Karate in its modern form was established around 400 years ago in Japan, with its roots mainly derived from Chinese Kung Fu. See Step 1 below to start teaching yourself the basics of this art form.

All you need is dedication and self motivation to perfect karate. As every martial arts karate can only be performed at it's perfection by practice only.

Sports Karate comprises of two competitions.

1. Kata

Kata is a Japanese word meaning literally "form" referring to a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone, and also within groups and in unison when training. It is practised in Japanese martial arts as a way to memorize and perfect the movements being executed.

2. Kumite 

Kumite is one of the two main sections of karate training, along with kata. Kumite is the part of karate in which a person trains against an adversary, using the techniques learned from the  kata. Kumite can be used to develop a particular technique or a skill or it can be done in competition. Kumite is widely used in competitions worldwide. Traditional karate uses kumite for sparring.