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PUNCHES - TSUKI

Age tsuki (zuki) - rising punch. Seen in the kata empi

Awase tsuki - combined punch, or U punch, also reffered to as morote tsuki

Choku tsuki - straight punch also known as kara tsuki

Dan-tsuki - consecutive punching (same hand)

Gyaku tsuki - reverse puch

Heiko tsuki - parallel punch, (a double, simultaneous punch)

Hiraken - flat fist or fore knuckle fist

Ippon ken - one knuckle fist

Kagi tsuki - hook punch

Kizami tsuki - lunge punch

Mawashi tsuki - roundhouse punch.

Morote tsuki - augmented punch or U punch

nagashi tsuki - flowing punch

nakadaka ippon ken - middle finger one knuckle fist

oi tsuki - lead hand punch

ren tsuki - alternative punching

sanbon tsuki - a series of three punches, generally the first is oi tsuki jodan , followed by a slight pause ten, chudan gyaku tsuki, immediately by chudan tsuki, but it can be performed with three punches to the same target

seiken - fore fist, regular fist

tate tsuki - vertical punch

toma komi tsuki - jabbing punch

tsuki - a punch or thrust

ura tsuki- an upper cut / close punch used at a close range. Sometimes called staz tsuki

yama tzuki - a wide U shape punch. Also called a ountain punch, yama= mountain

zuki - a different spelling of tsuki you would use the spelling zuki when your adding the word to another. You use the spelling tsuki when it is said by its self