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JKD Terminology

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Bi jong - ready or on guard position

Biu gee - shooting fingers (finger jab)

Biu sao - shooting fingers block

Bong sao – raised elbow deflection

Chi sao - sticking hands

Chop choy - knuckle fist

Chung choy - vertical fist

Da - strike

Dum tek - stomp kick

Fook sao – hooking hand block

Gin choy - uppercut

Gnoy – outside

Go - high

Go da – high hit

Go lon sao - high horizontal arm block

Goang sao - low outward wrist block

Gua choy - back fist

Gua tek - inverted hook kick

Gum sao – pressing/pinning hand

Ha - low

Ha da - low hit

Ha pak - low slap cover

Ha woang pak – low parry

How - rear

How tek - back kick

Huen sao - circling hand

Jang - elbow

Jao sao - running hand (circling hand)

Jeet gek - jam with shin

Jeet tek - stop kick

Jeet que - intercepting bridge

Jeet sao - intercepting hand

Jern - palm

Jik chung choy - straight blast

Jik jern - straight palm

Jik tek - straight kick

Joy – left

Jong sao – palm inward block (between biu & tan sao)

Juan jern - round palm

Juk tek - side kick

June tek – spin kick

Jung - middle

Jun fan - bruce lee

Jung da - middle hit

Jung tao - head butt

Jut sao - jerking hand

Kow sao - hooking hand

Lau sing choy - overhead backfist

Lie sao - palm up pulling hand tan sao

Lin lop sao – cross grabbing hand

Lin sil die da – simultaneous block & hit

Lon sao - horizontal arm block

Lop sao – grabbing/pulling hand

Loy – inside

Loy pak sao – inside (of the arm) slapping hand

Mon sao - inquisitive hand

Noy – outside

Noy pak sao – outside (of arm) slapping hand noy pak/loy da – split entry

O'ou choy - hooking fist (hook)

O'ou sao - hooking hand (in defence)

O'ou tek – round (hook) kick

Pak sao – slapping/grabbing hand

Ping choy - horizontal fist

Seung - two

So gek - sweeping leg

So tek - sweeping kick

Si fu - your instructor

Sot - knee

Sut sao – knife/chopping hand

Tahk sao - raising hand (double palm)

Tan sao - palm up block

Toy - to back up

Yow - right

Woang pak – cross hand slap cover

Wu sao - protecting hand

 

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