Tobi mawashi geri: Jumping roundhouse kick Mae-ren geri: Double front kick (= double mae geri) Mae-ashi mawashi geri: Front roundhouse kick with front leg Kin geri: Kick in the groin, performed like front kick but with the feet Washite: Eagle hand or, eagle claw strike (e.g. Heiko Seiryuto: Parallel or double Ox-Jaw Strike (e.g. Gyaku Age Zuki: Rising reverse punch (e.g. Yoko Tettsui: Sideways hammer-fist strike (e.g. Yama Zuki ("mountain punch"): Wide double fisted strike (e.g. Ura Zuki: Close short punch, with inverted fist, similar in nature to an 'uppercut'
Uraken Hizo Uchi: backfist strike to spleen Uraken Sayu Ganmen Uchi (backfist strike to side) Uraken Mawashi Uchi (backfist circular strike to the head) Otoshi Uraken: Dropping Backfist in kosa Dachi (e.g. Tettsui Yoko Uchi (bottom fist strike to side) Tettsui Hasami Uchi: Hammer-fist scissor strike Tate Teisho Uchi: Vertical, or Rising palm heel strike Teisho Furi Uchi: Sideways palm-heel strike Tate Zuki: Half reverse punch, with a vertical fist Sokumen Empi Uchi: Augmented elbow strike (e.g. Shuto Jodan Uchi (inside knife-hand to neck) Shuto Hizo Uchi (knife-hand strike to spleen) Shuto Sakotsu Uchi (knife-hand strike to clavicle) Shuto Sakotsu Uchikomi (driving knife-hand to sternum) Shuto Yoko Ganmen Uchi (knife-hand strike to head) Sanbon Zuki: Triple punch (Age zuki, Gyaku Zuki, Choku Zuki) Ippon Nukite: 1 finger Spear-hand strike (e.g. Nihon Ken: Two finger punch/strike eye strike (e.g. in the kata, Heian yondan)Ītsuen Empi Uchi: Rolling elbow strike (e.g. Mae Mawashi Empi Uchi: Augmented side elbow strike (e.g. Kizami Zuki or Maete: jabbing punch (like a 'jab') Hasami Nakadaka Ken: Scissor Middle Finger strike (e.g. Jodan Haito: Upward Ridge hand strike (e.g. Otoshi Gyaku Haito: Dropping reverse Ridge hand strike in the kata, Tekki shodan)Ĭhudan Juki (originally,"tsuki"): Mid-level punch Nami Gaeshi: leg snapping wave block (e.g. Mika Zuki Geri Uke: crescent kick block (e.g. Joge kaki uke: up & down hook block (e.g. Teisho awase uke: hands together block (e.g. Kosa uke (also known as joge uke): cross block (e.g. Mawashi uke: roundhouse or circle block (e.g. Morote Tsukami uke: augmented grabbing/throwing block in the kata, Enpi)Ĭhudan soete uke: added hand inside block (e.g. Ushiro gedan barai: back low sweeping block (e.g. Ude barai: reverse sweeping forearm block Gyako uchi uke: reverse outside mid-level (e.g. Uchi ude uke (内腕受け)/ uchi uke (内受け): inside forearm block Shuto mawashi uke (roundhouse block with knife-hand) Shuto gedan barai: knife-hand sweeping low block Nagashi uke: rising palm sweep block (e.g. Kaisho haiwan uke: knife-hand square side block (e.g. Gedan morote barai: double sweeping low block (usually while going into kiba Dachi) in the kata, Enpi)Įmpi uke: elbow block (e.g. Morote koko gamae: double handed preparatory position (e.g. Ryoken koshi gamae: double hip preparatory position (e.g. Manji gamae: "manji (卍)" -shaped preparatory position, one arm raised above and behind the head with the other arm blocking low in front of the body (e.g., in the kata, Heian godan) Sochin Dachi: high-low blocking rooted stance Yoi Dachi is Heiko Dachi with the hands out in a ready position. Yoi Dachi (usually called Yoi): basic stance/Ready position Renoji Dachi: stance in which the feet form the shape of the Japanese katakana “レ” when seen from above, or relaxed stance (e.g. Kokutsu Dachi: back stance (in almost all Shotokan katas usually first learned in Heian Shodan) Kiba Dachi: horse stance/side stance (e.g. in the kata Enpi)įudo Dachi: rooted stance (e.g. Uchi Hachiji Dachi: inward feet stance reverse of hachiji Dachi Heiko Dachi: parallel attention stance (e.g. Musubi Dachi: informal attention stance, both heels touching and feet at 45° angle