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Shotokan Karate Terminology

These pages provide information that will be useful for any student trying to grasp the Japanese terminology of Karate. The terms have been divided into separate topics to make navigation of these  easier, click on the tabs below and the directory of terms underneath will change to that topic.

BLOCKS
PUNCHES
KICKS
STANCES
STRIKES

PUNCHES

AGE TSUKI (ZUKI)
Rising Punch. Seen in the Kata EMPI.
AWASE TSUKI
Combined Punch, or U Punch. Also referred to as MOROTE TSUKI.
CHOKU TSUKI
Straight Punch. Also known as Kara Tsuki.
DAN-TSUKI
Consecutive punching (same hand).
GYAKU TSUKI
Reverse Punch.
HEIKO TSUKI
Parallel Punch, (A double, simultaneous 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.
NAGASHI TSUKI
Flowing punch.
NAKADAKA IPPON-KEN
Middle Finger One Knuckle Fist.
OI-TSUKI
Lunge punch.
REN-TSUKI
Alternate punching.
SANBON TSUKI
A series of three punches, generally the first is OI TSUKI JODAN, followed by a slight pause then, CHUDAN GYAKU TSUKI, immediately followed by CHUDAN TSUKI, but it can be performed with three punches to the same target.
SEIKEN
Fore fist, Regular Fist.
TATE TSUKI
Vertical Punch.
TSUKI
A punch or thrust.
YAMA TSUKI
A wide U-shaped dual punch. Also called Mountain Punch, YAMA=MOUNTAIN.
ZUKI
A different spelling of TSUKI. You would use the spelling ‘Zuki’ when you are adding the word to another. You use the spelling ‘Tsuki’ when it is said by itself.

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