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This is the basic ready stance in Karate. Uchi hachiji-dachi (内八字立, literally "stand like the upside-down character 八") The feet are shoulder width apart, toes facing inwards at 30-45 degrees, knees tense. This stance is used in some formal exercises, for example the tsundome. Also called Chun'be or Naifanchin-dachi.
Vital points used in attack [2]; Japanese English Hichu This pressure point is located in the center of the lowest part of the neck, in the hollow. Shofu In the lateral aspect of the neck, in the posterior border of the Sternocleidomastoideus posterosuperior on both sides of the center of the neck.
Some later styles of karate have been derived from blending techniques from the four main branches, while others have added techniques from other martial arts. For example Kyokushin , which is an extremely hard style derived from Shotokan and Gōjū-ryū, involves much more breaking and full contact, knockdown sparring as a main part of training.
Naihanchi (ナイハンチ) (or Naifanchi (ナイファンチ), Tekki (鉄騎)) is a karate kata, performed in straddle stance (naihanchi-dachi (ナイハンチ立ち) / kiba-dachi (騎馬立ち)). It translates to 'internal divided conflict'. The form makes use of in-fighting techniques (i.e. tai sabaki (whole body movement)) and grappling. In ...
Hachiji dachi (八字立:はちじだち) is a stance used in karate. In English, hachiji roughly translates to "the character for eight," [ 1] but in context means something more like "shaped like number eight." Note that this refers to the shape of the kanji for the number eight: 八, [ 2] not the arabic numeral "8". Dachi (立:だち), the ...
Shotokan (松涛館, Shōtōkan) is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945). Gichin Funakoshi was born in Okinawa [1] and is widely credited with popularizing "karate do" through a series of public demonstrations, and by promoting the ...
Chūdan-no-kamae is one of the five stances in kendo: jōdan, chūdan, gedan, hassō and waki. Chūdan is the most basic stance in kendo, and provides an excellent balance of offensive and defensive options. If correctly assumed, the trunk (do) and right wrist (migi-kote) are hidden from the opponent. The throat is visible, but the extended tip ...
Jion. Jion 慈恩 ("Temple Sound" [citation needed]) is a representative kata in the Shotokan system because of the importance of the perfection of the basic stances it contains, notably zenkutsu dachi (front stance) and kiba dachi (horse stance). Also practiced in some Shitō-ryū organizations, emphasis is also placed on Kokutsu dachi, or ...