About Kimè

[Night-Dragon]

Hi everybody

 

I have a question for you martial artists, expecially for you that pratice karate.

 

What is Kimè? how can we translate this concept?

 

How can I do tecniques with Kimè?

 

It's one of the most important thing in Karate.

 

I would say that Kimè is energy, in the sense of determination, good focus on the tecnique that I am doing, isn't it?

 

Please make this concept clear for me!!!

 

by Gabriele

 

Oss!

[kataman]

Word to word kime mean focus so uselly you have to do the technique

 

Focus,power,kiai

[Killer Miller]

Kime is translated as being "focus." However, it's truly that action of where the exhalation stops and all mucsles are contracted at your intended target point - also refered to as your "focal point." Before this you are still moving, exhaling and contracting muscles. After this point you are inhaling, relaxing getting ready to move to another point or do another technique.

 

Your intended target (focal point) with the above described action is "Kime." It happens very quickly - in a nano second.

 

- Killer -

[Karateka]

Kime, to me, is that point where all you are focused on is the moment you are in. While fighting or doing the technique, you are in the moment. WHen sparring or fighting, you can see everything in context and are performing the move as it should be done and everything just fits. When practicing, it is seeing that imaginary opponent in front of you and you just know that this is a real moment where the only thing you are worried about is doing the technique effectively

[Lord Apocalypse]

I may be wrong about this but i'm pretty sure that the majority of okinawan styles don't have kime

[Kaminari]

Good description Killer.

[Shorin Ryuu]

I may be wrong about this but i'm pretty sure that the majority of okinawan styles don't have kime

 

From Killer Miller's description, I don't think they do either.

[senna_trem]

Shorin Ryuu...

 

This is off topic, but I did a quick search and typed in Iraqi fingers into google images to see if I could find the picture you are using, but all it came up with were pictures of bones, creepy hey? I have been told that I do bad internet searches, so I may have a talent for finding what I do not want.

[Jussi Häkkinen]

I may be wrong about this but i'm pretty sure that the majority of okinawan styles don't have kime

 

I agree. Well, that's a common Shotokan-explanation for kime. Doesn't seem to apply to Okinawan styles. Okinawan styles do have focus, but it's something pretty much more relaxed and plausible.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Shorin Ryuu...

 

This is off topic, but I did a quick search and typed in Iraqi fingers into google images to see if I could find the picture you are using, but all it came up with were pictures of bones, creepy hey? I have been told that I do bad internet searches, so I may have a talent for finding what I do not want.

 

I just type in "blue" "fingers" "Iraq" "Election". I don't use google images, just the regular web search to find pictures embedded in articles and such (usually blogs, since main stream media has much less of a selection of these kind of positive news items).

 

Edit: Yeah, there is focus, but relaxed. Not a tightening towards completion.