A kimono to suit your style?
In karate, there are many schools: the French Federation website lists 32 styles of karate.
With its short sleeves and pants and long jacket, your kimono has a traditional Japanese cut that met enhances your technique, particularly during katas.
With topstitching at the bottom of the sleeves, legs and skirt of the jacket, your kimono is more weighted: the feeling of fluidity is increased, for greater aesthetic appeal during your techniques.
Sold without the belt.
What is the material of your kimono?
To help you progress in karate, we offer you a 100% cotton kimono that's equally suited to technical sparring and advanced katas:
With its heavier, stiffer 310 g/m² (11 oz), your met kimono enhances the aesthetics and technique of your katas, and has the stiffness that gives a better "snap" effect to your movements.
After a few washes, the size of your kimono will stabilize.
We tell you about the design of your Karate 500 kimono
Whatever your style, we offer a karategi that's attractive, technical and adapted:
- The pants are cut to fit pitaines and shin guards
- The jacket is fitted at the hips for an elegant fit
- The jacket's amplitude at the torso allows you to perform all your arm techniques without constraint
- The notches on the sides of the jacket give you more freedom for all your leg movements, even in the low position.
Which size to choose?
Kimono sizes range from 150 to 200 cm, and we recommend that you choose a kimono at least 5 cm larger than your height.
For example, if you're 1.75 m tall, choose a 180 cm kimono.
Here's a guide to help you choose:
- 150 cm : Trouser size 30-32
- 160 cm : Trouser size 34-36
- 170 cm :Trouser size 38-40
- 180 cm : Trouser size 44
- 190 cm : Trouser size 48
- 200 cm : Trouser size 52
Our design team tells the story of our new range of kimonos:
"We had to rewrite everything, starting from scratch. The priorities were to rework the materials and the cut, to offer attractive kimonos in keeping with karate codes. And above all, we wanted to put ourselves in the shoes of karate practitioners." What followed were dozens of prototypes and tests with some twenty karatekas, until we achieved a kimono that was both fair and balanced.
Enrique, product manager at Outshock and karate black belt, explains his vision kimonos.
"I hope the kimonos will appeal to even the most demanding and purist of people. We wanted to put our finger on what dogi is for us, on the importance of notions of form and technique, on following the body's movements. Dogi helps you embrace the form and technique of your karate."
