Striking Techniques (Uchi-waza)
- Age empi: Rising elbow strike
- Age Tzuki: Rising Punch
- Choku zuki: Straight jab punch
- Empi uchi: Elbow strike
- Gyaku zuki: Reverse punch
- Haishu uchi: Back hand strike
- Haito uchi: Ridge hand strike
- Hisami zuki: Scissor strike
- Jun Zuki: front hand 'jab' punch, differing from Kizami Zuki in that shoulders are square
- Kagi zuki: Hook punch
- Kizami zuki: Straight, front hand lunging punch (like a 'jab')
- Mae mawashi empi uchi: Augmented side elbow strike (e.g. in the kata, Heian yondan)
- Mawashi empi: Hook elbow strike
- Morote zuki: Double punch (e.g. in the kata, Tekki shodan)
- Nakadaka Ippon Ken : one knuckle fist
- Nukite: Spear-hand strike
- Oi zuki: Lunge punch (shoulders square)
- Sanbon zuki: Triple punch (age zuki, gyaku zuki, choku zuki)
- 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 (e.g. in the kata, Tekki shodan)
- Tate zuki: 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: Backfist strike
- Uraken mawashi uchi (backfist circular strike to the head)
- Uraken sayu ganmen uchi (backfist strike to side)
- Uraken hizo uchi (backfist strike to spleen)
- Ushiro empi ate (backwards elbow strike)
- Ura zuki: Close short punch, with inverted fist, similar in nature to an 'uppercut'
- Ushiro empi: Back elbow strike
- Yama zuki ("mountain punch"): Wide double fisted strike (e.g. in the kata, Bassai dai and Wankan)
- Awase zuke: Narrow double fisted strike
- Yoko empi: Side elbow strike
- Yoko tettsui: Sideways hammer-fist strike (e.g. in the kata, Heian Nidan)
- Gyaku age zuki: Rising reverse punch (e.g. in the kata, Enpi)
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