Karate Kime Training 15 Minute Follw Along Class

In this short 15 minute karate kime training class, we work not only on kime, but on a fast arm rotation at completion of the blocks, which actually helps with the kime.

Kime is the noun form of the verb kimeru, which means to finish or to decide, in Shotokan we refer to it as the final finishing point, or decisive point of a karate technique.

A basic explanantion of kime as my Sensei used to explain to me, is relax, tense, relax.

Just as a boxer hits a heavy punch bag and their muscles tighten on impact, we are trying to get the same muscle reaction when we deliver a technique, irrespective of whether we hit something or not!

To many karateka, kime is not just a tightening of the muscles on completion of a given tkarate technique, good kime must also have intent behind the technique. When practicing karate at speed, the attitude of ikken hissatsu (to finish with one blow) is essential.