REceNT ADDITIONS
AITE
Opponent or Partner.
ANTEI
Balance, Stability or Equilibrium.
ASHI ATE
Foot Strikes or Leg Strikes.
ASHI GATANA
A Karate kick where the toes are turned up and the striking point is the outer edge of the foot.
ASHI HARAI
Foot or Leg Sweeping, another name for Ashi Barai.
ASHI SABAKI
Foot Work or Foot Movement.
ATAMA
Head, or top of the head.
ATE
Strike or Striking.
AWASE WAZA
Combined Techniques.
AYUMI ASHI
Stepping Foot, a method of footwork, where the feet move alternatively one ahead of the other each sliding along the floor.
DE
Advancing.
DORI
Practice.
GEDAN tsUKI
Lower Level Punch, usually directed at the groin area.
GEDAN SUKUI UKE
Lower Level Hooking Block, as seen in the Kata Bassai Dai.
HARAI FUMIKOMI GERI
Sweeping Crescent Kick, as seen in the Kata Bassai Dai.
HIDARI KAGI KAMAE
Left Hooking Stance, as seen in the Kata Hiean Godan.
JO UKE
JO Block, A block against a Jo (a short stick, about walking stick length).
JO tsUKAMI WAZA
Jo Grasping Techniques.
JIYU
Freedom (of movement etc.).
JUJI KAMAE
Cross Block Stance, as seen in the Kata Kanku Dai.
KAESHI
Counter, the countering of an opponents offensive action.
KARATE NI SENTENASHI
A term which sums up the essence of the art, it means 'In Karate There Is No First Strike'.
KIN GERI
Front Arch Kick. A kick to the groin using the instep.
KISHO IPPON KUMITE
Returning One Step. A calls the first attack against B and then attacks. B then steps back and blocks A's attack. B then returns stepping forwards and attacks A, A steps back and blocks and counters this attack.
KOHO tsUKI AGE
Back or reverse Punch Rising, a rising punch coming vertically up under the opponents chin. As seen in the Kata Heian Godan.
KUZUSHI
Breaking or Upsetting.
MAE ASHI GYAKU MAWASHI GERI
Front Leg Reverse Roundhouse Kick. Normally striking with the heel or sole of the foot.
MAWASHI TOBI GERI
Roundhouse Jumping Kick, or Flying Roundhouse Kick.
MIGI KAGI KAMAE
Right Hooking Stance, as seen in the Kata Hiean Godan.
MIZU
Water.
RYO
Both.
RYO UDE MAWASHI UKE
Both Forearm Round House Block, as seen in the Kata Kanku Dai.
SANKAKU
Triangular.
SHOTOKAN
A style of Karate. The name is derived from the pen name that Gichin Funakoshi, the founder of modern day Karate, and a well known calligrapher, used as a pen name when writing his verse. The name is made up of Shoto, meaning waving pines, (as his verse was often inspired while walking among the gently waving pines on the hills near his house), and Kan meaning House or School. When he started his first school of Karate it became known as Shoto's Kan, eventually changing to Shotokan.
SOKUMEN
Side.
URA
Reverse, rear or Reverse Side or Back as in Uraken.
WAKI
Side or Flank.
ZUKAMI
An alternative spelling of tsUKAMI (Grasping).
ERI tsUKAMI
Lapel Grab.
KIRI
Repeated.
KIRI KAESHI
Repeated Counter, as used in the Kata Bassi-Dai.
TAI
Body, as in Tai-Sabaki tai=body, sabaki=shifting or movement.
RYO WAN UchI-UDE UKE
Both Arm Inside Fore-Arm Block, as seen in the Kata Meikyo.
KOHO SHUTO GAMAE
Behind Knife Hand Posture, (as seen in the Kata Meikyo) KOHO describes where you have moved behind your attacker.
