![]() ![]() ![]() Mae-tobi-hiza-geri: Flying front knee kick Knee Strikes Mae-hiza-geri : Front knee kick Ura mawashi-geri: Back roundhouse kick or hook kick Mikazuki-geri: Crescent moon kick (towards the inside) Mawashi-geri: Round-house kick with top of foot Mae-geri-kakato : Front kick with the heel Gyaku-mikazuki-geri : Reverse crescent moon kick (towards the outside) Shi-zuki/Toride-zuki: Chicken beak thrust/Bird hand strikeĮlbow Techniques Mawashi-hiji-ate: Circular elbow strikeĪshi-dome : Lower abdomen/groin stop kick Nakadaka Ippon-ken: Middle finger knuckle fist Hand Techniques Haishu-uchi : Back of hand strike ![]() Oyayubi Ippon-ken: Thumb fist (thumb knuckle) Morote-nuki-zuki: Double spear-hand thrust Punching Techniques Age-zuki: Rising punch Morote-soe-uke: Augmented forearm block, wedge block Magetori-barai-uke: Rising double knife-hand block Jodan-uke/Age-uke: Upper level block/rising block Hangetsu-barai-uke: Half-moon sweeping block Gedan-yoko-barai-uke: Lower sideward sweeping block Gedan-barai/Gedan-uke: Lower sweeping block/Lower level block Tsuru-ashi-dachi/Sagi-ashi-dachi: Crane leg stance/Heron leg stance, similar to Ippon-ashi-dachiĬhudan-soto-mawashi-uke: Middle sideward round block Shiko-dachi/Jigotai-dachi: Horse stance, open feet Musubi-dachi: Standing stance, heels together Kiba-dachi/Naihanchi-dachi: Horse riding stance Ippon-ashi-dachi: One-leg stance, similar to tsuru-ashi-dachi Stances Fudo-dachi/Sochin-dachi: Unshakable stance This Karate lexicon includes the Japanese words or phrases, their Kanji as well as their English translation. I have put together this exhaustive Karate lexicon that contains a list of Japanese terms commonly used in Karate dojos all over the world. I've tried many courses, but jpod101 is without any doubt my favorite. And for those of you that seem to forget, Kyokushin was more than a couple decades old before the tournaments came along, so what did they train before that, come on down to the dojo one night and we will be happy to show you.If you want to further your understanding and study of the Japanese language, I recommend that you do like a did and start learning with. Where did I learn them? From someone who was there at the start. I teach many classes where the whole emphazies is on grabbing, throwing, face punches, joint locks, arm bars and all the other techniques that everyone seems to think Kyokushin students don't do. I have heard a senior Shihan state many times that tournament fighting is but 1% of your karate life if even that. I still find it amusing that when people talk about Kyokushin it is all about the way we fight in tournaments. I suggest you go and find yourself a good Kyokushin instructor who really knows what they are doing or obtain some of Sosai Oyama's books and do some research. The whole theory behind our techniques is the circle and point. To say that Kyokushin is to linear goes against all we are taught or teach. The essence of Kyokushin is circular motion. This depends on the fight/flight response though. Hence why trying to get through a gap would be the first response. If you have things blocking your path you have limited movements available to you so instinctively you want to get to a point/area where you have more available to you. The environment indeed makes a great difference in how you react. I never really got to start practising sabaki movements until a few years ago and it's been even more so in the last year as I feel it's an area I'm weak on, regularly leaving myself exposed. Same goes for linear movements of stepping forward and back although it is far more likely that people practise that. If you never practise side stepping or tai sabaki then you're not going to use it in a self defence situation. In relation to sabaki vs linear I think it all depends on which you've trained in more and what the situation is. I'm sorry but I don't know very much about kyokushin. I used to do Kyokushin many years ago,but now there seems to be more offshoots of this style then ever before.Kyokushin tends to be a more linear style ? while the offshoots such as Ashihara,Enshin,and more recently Shintaiikudo emphasize the Sabaki method ,generally moving to the blind spot of the attacker to defend oneself and attack the opponent.I am just wondering interms of self defence,eventhough this Sabaki method sounds sensible in theory, how does it play out in a real street confontation.Does one have the time ,the speed or the foresight to move away from the attack?Does the environment /surroundings,indeed allow one to move away from the attack? I had been studying Wing Chun for a little while,however I personally found it not to my liking-I don't need go into any detail of why. Posted: Mon 3:16 am Post subject: Sabaki or linear ![]()
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