Basic Terminology

SHOTOKAN - OUR STYLE OF KARATE

Basic Terminology

Karate-do	Empty hand-way	The count
Sensei	Teacher	Ichi	One
Dojo	Training hall	Ni	Two
Gi	Training suit	San	Three
Obi	Belt	Shi	Four
Rea	Bow	Go	Five
Oss	To push ahead	Roku	Six
Kime	Focus	Shichi	Seven
Jodan	Upper level	Hachi	Eight
Chudan	Middle level	Kyu	Nine
Gedan	Lower level	Ju	Ten
Waza	Punching techniques
Hidari	Left	Migi	Right
Yame	Stop	Hajime	Begin
Mokusoh	Quiet thought	Mawate	Turn
Uraken	Back fist strike	Kime	Focus
Oi-zuki	Stepping punch	Kihon	Basics
Age-uke	Rising block	Kumite	Sparring
Soto-uke	Outside block	Kata	Forms
Ude-barai	Forearm sweep	Uchi-uke	Inside block
Gedan-barai	Downwards sweeping block	Gyaku-zuki	Reverse punch
Uke waza	Blocking techniques	Nagashi-uke	Sweeping block
Shuto-uke	Knife hand block	Tsukami-uke	Grasping block

Keri waza	Kicking techniques	Uchi waza	Striking techniques
Mae-geri	Front snap kick	Empi-uchi	Elbow strike
Yoko-geri keage	Side snap kick	Shuto-uchi	Knife hand strike
Yoko-geri kekomi	Side thrust kick	Haito-uchi	Ridge hand strike
Mawashi-geri	Roundhouse kick	Nukite	Spear hand strike
Ushiro-geri	Reverse thrust kick	Mika-zuki-geri	Cresent kick

Kumite	Sparring
Sanbon kumite	Three step sparring
Gohon kumite	Five step sparring
Kihon ippon kumite	One step sparring
Jyu ippon kumite	Semi-free one attack sparring
Jyu kumite	Freestyle sparring

Hapy Birthday Jaminoor

Juliet had very kindly baked a special birthday cake for Jaminoor and this was presented at the Saturday morning session - 4th February 2012

2012 Dates for SEKU Karate Events now in Events section

For Karate events and activities please look under "Events" and for the Club social activities please look under "Other Activities".