Kumite. Technique and Tactics. Introduction I has conceived this book as a generalization of exclusively personal experience of my participating in tournaments of different levels, and an instructor work at the my own karate club "Hokushin dojo." All stated below is my personal view of Karate and methods of education students who want to become qualified fighters and to win their fights not by sheer force muscle but by preferably skill, knowledge and understanding of what is actually a fight in karate.