UCHI WAZA - Karate Striking Techniques

Age empi                      : Rising elbow strike

Awase tzuki                  : Narrow double fisted strike

Age tzuki                      : Rising Punch

Choku tzuki                  : Straight jab punch

Empi uchi                     : Elbow strike

Gyaku tzuki                  : Reverse punch

Haishu uchi                   : Back hand strike

Haito uchi                     : Ridge hand strike

Hisami tzuki                  : Scissor strike

Jun tzuki                       : front hand 'jab' punch

Kagi tzuki                     : Hook punch
Kami tsukami             : Hair grab

Kizami tzuki                              : Straight, front hand lunging punch (like a 'jab')

Ko (Ken) Uchi                         : Bent Wrist Strike

Kote Uchi                                : Forearm Strike

Kumate                                    : bear hand strike

Mae mawashi empi uchi            :Augmented side elbow strike 

Mawashi empi                          : Hook elbow strike

Morote zuki                              : Double punch 

Nakadaka Ippon Ken               : one knuckle fist

Oya Yubi Ippon ken                 : Thumb Knuckle

Hitosashi ippon ken                  : forefinger knuckle

Nukite                                      : Spear-hand strike

Oi tzuki                                    : Lunge punch (shoulders square)

Sanbon tzuki                             : Triple punch (age zuki, gyaku zuki, choku zuki)

Shita tsuki                                 : low upper cut

Shuto uchi                                : Knifehand strike

Shuto yoko ganmen uchi           : knife-hand strike to head

Shuto sakotsu uchikomi            : driving knife-hand to sternum

Shuto sakotsu uchi                    : knife-hand strike to clavicle

Shuto hizo uchi                         : knife-hand strike to spleen

Shuto jodan uchi uchi                : inside knife-hand to neck

Sokumen empi uchi                   : Augmented elbow strike 

Shotei uchi                                : Palm heel strike

Tate tzuki                                 : Half reverse punch, with a vertical fist

Teisho furi uchi                         : Sideways palm-heel strike

Teisho uchi                               : Palm-heel strike

Tettsui                                      : Hammer-fist strike

Tettsui hasami uchi                    : Hammer-fist scissor strike

Tettsui yoko uchi                      : bottom fist strike to side

Uraken uchi                              : Back fist strike

Uraken mawashi uchi                : back fist circular strike to the head

Yoko Uraken uchi                    : back fist strike to side

Uraken hizo uchi                       : back fist strike to spleen

Ushiro empi ate                        : backwards elbow strike

Ushiro empi                              : Back elbow strike

Yama tzuki                               : Wide double fisted strike

Yoko empi                               : Side elbow strike

Yoko tettsui                              : Sideways hammer-fist strike

Yubi Hasami Uchi                     :Finger Pinch Strike
Yubisaki uchi                                 : Loose finger tips slap

Peace and Harmony,
Sensei M.Maharaj