BUDO SPIRIT

Jodan Age-uke    Rising block with forearm above head

Ashi-barai    Sweeping ankle throw

Choku-zuki    Straight punch

Ch’uan fa    Fist way

Chudan uke    Middle area block, usually with forearm

Dojo    Training area (gym)

Fumikomi    Stamping kick

Fumi-waza    Stamping techniques

Gedan-barai    Downward block

Geta    Clogs

Gi    Karate practice suite

Gyaka-zuki    Reverse or counter attack punch

Hachiji-dachi    Open leg stance

Hangetsu-dachi    Wide hour glass stance, toes turned in

Haishu    Back hand

Haishu-uchi    Back hand strike

Haishu-uke    Back hand block

Haisoku    Instep

Haito    Ridge hand (index finger edge of hand)

Haito-uchi    Ridge hand strike

Hajime    Begin

Heisoku-dachi    Informal attention stance – feet parallel

Hen-o    Responding

Hiji-ate    Elbow strike

Hiraken    Fore knuckle fist using second joint of fingers

Hiraken-zuki    Fore knuckle fist straight punch

Hittsui / Hiza    Knee

Hittsui-geri    Knee kick

Ippon-ken    One knuckle fist

Ippon-ken-zuki    One knuckle fist straight punch (second knuckle protruding)

Ippon-nukite    One finger spear hand

Jiyu-ippon-kumite    Semi-free one-blow sparring

Juji-uke    Cross block (X-Block)

Kage-zuki    Hook punch

Kakato    Heel

Kake-dachi    One legged stance with rear knee pressed into calf of the front leg.

Kake-dameshi    Tests of strength – breaking wood, tiles etc

Kake-te    Hook hand

Kake-uke    Hooking block

Kake-waza    Hooking techniques

Kakuto    Bent wrist

Kakuto-uke    Bent wrist block

Kamae-te    "On Guard"

Kansetsu-geri    Stamping or joint kick (as in fumikomi)

Kata    Forms (prearranged exercises)

Keito-uke    Chicken head wrist block

Kempo    ‘Fist way’, Chinese boxing

Kendo    ‘Way of the sword’, sword fighting

Kentsui    Hammer fist with base of clenched fist

Keri-waza    Kicking techniques

Kiba-dachi    Straddle legged stance, feet parallel

Kihon-kumite    Basic sparring (arranged)

Kime Focus or Ki    (concentration of strength)

Kin-geri    Groin kick

Koko    Tiger mouth hand (palm of hand)

Kokutsu-dachi    Back stance

Koshi    Ball of foot

Kumade    Bear hand – fingers clawed

Kumite    Sparring or combat

Ma-ai    Distancing

Mae-geri    Front kick

Mae-geri-keage    Front snap kick

Mae-geri-kekomi    Front thrust kick

Mae-ken (Tsuki)    Punch with hand nearest opponent

Mae-tobi-geri    Flying front kick

Makiwara    Punching board

Mawate  Turning hand’, order to turn around

Mawashi-geri    Roundhouse kick

Mawashi-zuki    Roundhouse punch

Mawashi-uke    Circular block

Mikazuki-geri    Crescent kick

Mikazuki-geri-uke    Crescent kick block

Mine-uke    Back hand block (wrist bent)

Mizu-no-kokoro    ‘A mind like water’

Morote-uke    Two hand forearm block

Morote-zuki    Double fist punch

Musubi-dachi    Stance with heels together, toes apart

Nagashi-uke    Sweeping block

Nage-waza    Throwing techniques

Nakadate-ippon-ken    Middle finger one knuckle fist punch

Nami-ashi    Inside snapping block with foot

Neko-ashi-dachi    Cat stance

Nihon-nukite    Two finger spear hand

Nukite    Spear hand straight thrust

Oi-zuki    Lunge punch

Okinawa-te    ‘Okinawa hands’ old form of Okinawan karate

Osae-uke    Pressing block

Sasae-uke    Two fisted block (see also morote-uke)

Sanchin-dachi    Hour glass stance (front foot turned in at 45 degrees)

Seiken    Fore-fist part of fist used in normal punching

Seiken-choku-zuki    Fore fist straight punch

Sensei    Chief instructor of school or Dojo

Seiryuto    Ox-jaw hand – actually part of hand used in Shukokai blocking.

Seizo    Sitting back on heels

Shiko-dachi    Sumo Stance (straddle legged stance with toes pointing out).

Shizen-dachi    open legged stance before ‘Yoi’

Shizen-dachi-heiko    ‘yoi-dachi’ – ready stance

Shiai    Refereed Competition

Shotei    Palm Heel

Shuto    Knife Hand – Edge of hand

Shoto-uchi    Knife hand strike – classic "karate chop"

Shoto-uke    Knife hand block

Sochin dachi    Diagonal straddle-leg stance (as in kiba-dachi)

Sokuto    Foot edge