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Techniques in Kumite
Kumite is the art
of free sparring. There are many forms and levels of Kumite,
ranging from non-to-full contact. In the early days, Karate
was employed for fighting actual armed enemies and in itself
is a deadly weapon. In recent years, sparring was made possible
as the concept of delivering a technique to the opponent just
short of contact, was developed and recognised. During sparring
sessions, there must be mutual trust between partners and any
attack that targets a vital point, is forbidden. This is said
to be the 'morality' of Japanese martial arts.
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Sparring
can be can defined into two groups, free/simple sparring where partners
spar freely with each other, and yakusoku kumite (pre-arranged sparring).
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Free
sparring is a completely free form |
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of
sparring in which both opponents's movements are not pre-arranged.
Sparring may resemble boxing, except the attacks are pulled just
short of contact. Free sparring is not encouraged until a Karate
student has a firm grasp of the basics, a high level of fitness,
and has been practising pre-arranged sparring with good focus and
control.
In Free-sparring, watchful, relaxed alertness is needed as a free
exchange of blows, blocks and counters |
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progresses
until one of the partners gets in with a focused attack through
an opening of his/her opponent. |
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In
pre-arranged sparring, pairs of students are instructed to carry
out clearly defined offensive or defensive techniques. With repetitive
rehearsed movements, pre-arranged sparring is designed to improve
timing, rhythm and judgement of fighting distance. |
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