Terminology
DACHI - STANCES
FUDO DACHI Rooted Stance.
GANKAKU DACHI Crane Stance.
HACHIJI DACHI Open Leg Stance.
HANGETSU DACHI Half-Moon Stance.
HEIKO DACHI Parallel stance.
HEISOKU DACHI An informal attention stance.
KIBA DACHI Straddle Stance.
KOKUTSU DACHI Back Stance.
KOSA DACHI Cross Stance.
MUSUBI DACHI Informal attention stance.
NEKO-ASHI DACHI Cats Foot Stance.
SAGI ASHI DACHI Heron Leg Stance.
SANCHIN DACHI Hour-glass Stance.
SHIKO DACHI Square Stance.
SHIZEN DACHI Natural Stance.
SOCHIN DACHI Diagonal Straddle Leg stance.
TACHI Standing or Stance.
ZENKUTSU DACHI Forward Stance.
GERI - KICKS
ASHI Foot or Leg.
ASHI BARAI Foot/Leg Sweep.
ASHI WAZA Name given to all leg and foot techniques.
FUMIKOMI GERI Stamping kick.
GERI Kick.
HIZA GERI (strike) Knee Kick.
KAKATO GERI Axe Kick.
KEAGE Kick Up' in karate we use this when describing snapping.
KEKOMI Thrust Kick (Literally, Kick Into/Straight). See Kerikomi.
KERI Kick.
MAE GERI Front Kick.
MAE GERI KEAGE Front Snapping Kick.
MAE GERI KEKOMI Front Thrust Kick.
MAWASHI GERI Roundhouse Kick.
MIKAZUKI GERI Crescent Kick.
NIDAN GERI Double Kick.
REN-GERI Consecutive Kicking.
TOBI GERI Jumping Kick.
TSUMASAKI GERI Kicking using the tips of the toes to strike with.
USHIRO GERI Back Kick.
YOKO GERI Side Kick.
YOKO GERI KEAGE Side Snap Kick.
YOKO GERI KEKOMI Side Thrust Kick.
TSUKI - PUNCHES
AGE TSUKI (ZUKI) Rising Punch. Seen in the Kata EMPI.
CHOKU TSUKI Straight Punch.
GYAKU TSUKI Reverse Punch.
HIRAKEN Flat Fist or Fore knuckle fist.
IPPON KEN One Knuckle Fist.
KAGI TSUKI Hook Punch.
KIZAMI TSUKI Jabbing Punch.
MAWASHI TSUKI Roundhouse Punch.
MOROTE TSUKI Augmented Punch or U-Punch.
OI-TSUKI Lunge punch.
SANBON TSUKI A series of three punches.
SEIKEN Fore fist, Regular Fist.
TATE TSUKI Vertical Punch.
TSUKI A punch or thrust.
YAMA TSUKI Mountain Punch.
ZUKI A different spelling of TSUKI.
UCHI - STRIKES
AGE-EMPI UCHI Upward Elbow Strike.
HAISHU UCHI Back Hand Strike.
HAITO UCHI Ridge-hand Strike.
IPPON NUKITE One Finger Strike.
IPPON TSUKI One Finger Thrust.
KEITO UCHI Chicken Head Strike.
NIHON NUKITE Two Finger Strike
NIHON TSUKI Two Finger Thrust.
NUKITE Spear Hand
SHIHON NUKITE Four Finger Strike
SHIHON TSUKI Four Finger Thrust.
SHUTO UCHI Knife hand strike
TATE EMPI UCHI Upward Elbow Strike.
TEISHO UCHI Palm Heel Strike.
TETTSUI UCHI Bottom Fist Strike.
TETTSUI UCHI Hammer Fist Strike.
UCHI Striking
URAKEN UCHI Back Fist Strike
YOKO EMPI UCHI Side Elbow Strike.
UKE - BLOCKS
AGE UKE Upper Rising Block.
CHUDAN Uchi UKE Middle Level Forearm Block.
EMPI UKE Elbow Block.
GEDAN BARAI Lower Level Sweep.
GEDAN BARAI UKE Lower level Sweeping Block.
GEDAN SOTO UKE Lower Level Outside Forearm Block.
GEDAN UKE Lower Level Block.
HAI-WAN UKE Back Arm Block
HAISHU UKE Back Hand Block.
HAITO UKE Ridge-hand Block.
HARAI WAZA Sweeping techniques.
JODAN UKE High Level Block.
JUJI UKE X Block.
KAGI UKE Hooking Block.
KAISHO UKE Open Hand Block.
KAKE UKE Hooking Block.
KAKIWAKE UKE Reverse Wedge Block.
KEITO UKE Chicken Head Block.
KOSA UKE Crossed Block.
MOROTE UKE Augmented Block.
NAGASHI UKE Sweeping Block.
NAMI ASHI Inside Snapping Block.
SEIRYUTO UKE Ox Jaw Block.
SHUTO UKE Knife-hand Block.
SOTO UKE Outside Block.
TEISHO BARAI Palm Heel Sweep.
TEISHO UKE Palm Heel Block.
UCHI-UKE Inside Block.
UKE Block.