Karate sparring teaches you many valuable skills among them are speed and movement control. Karate sparring is a fundamental part of karate training and must be performed with another karate practitioner. Karate sparring is also useful for developing distance judging skills.

Karate sparring, known as kumite, is one of the three most important segments of karate training, along with kata and kihon. It is a sort of exercise performed between at least two karate practitioners, using the techniques learned from the kihon and kata

Even though there exist as many different sparring methodologies as there are different martial arts, any sparring system's developmental level can be analyzed according to two criteria; the range of allowable techniques and the level of permissible contact.

The original difficulty in finding a compromise between safety and perfection in sparring was, to some extent, resolved by the degree of limitations imposed on the system:

1.  The number and type of techniques permitted in sparring.

2.  The limitation placed on the degree of contact.

3.  Limits restricting legal target areas.