For the reason of space determined by the study of distance, rhythm and prediction of attack, art KARATE DO has a multi-dimensional character, a special character on the other side of physical aspect of body. To create this space is the ultimate purpose of Budo trainings. For that we may unite the three fundamental dimensions: techniques (waza), the sense of distance (maai) and the rhythm (hyoshi).
The masters who create the KARATE tell that maximum efficiency of physical techniques is expressed through Kime. That means "final decision". Kime suppose the existence of two notions: the shape perfection of techniques and the maximum power used for his execution.
The shape perfection of a technique or a gesture is not important only in Martial Arts, but also in other Japanese cultural activities, which involve gestures: dance, kabuki, shodo, ikebana, chanoyu, bonsai.
During activities are moments when the perfection of a technique is decisive: this thing is manifested through a "flash", a harmonious movement. This "flash" corresponds to a condensing of time around the person who makes the gesture or the people in case they exist. This correspondence are made related to space around the subject (for example the dancing scene or theatre scene) or related to produced objects (for example the tea, the floral arrangement or calligraphy). In these moments doesn't exist any thought, any form of gesture and the self-sensation of the person who made it. This person is the expression of gesture that he execute, identifying whit them. The object and subject may be one thing.
One of the great masters, a researcher in Martial Arts domain, define the notion of Kime as �a instantaneous psichical condition where doesn't exist the self-conscious or the process of how to think a movement; it is like a psichic void that put the interior personality completly into a particular movement. When we execut a movement like this, we will identify our selfs whit this".
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