List of Karate Hand Strikes & Punches

These videos will help you to learn a variety of Karate hand strikes (and the Japanese names for these techniques). For the Japanese names for punches, please see the Karate Punches section.

For punches and hand/arm strikes used by other martial arts styles (i.e. Muay Thai and Krav Maga), please visit the main Punches & Strikes page.

Karate Strikes

• Haishu uchi - Back hand strike
• Haito uchi - Ridge (back of sword) hand strike
• Ipon ken - forefinger knuckle strike
• Ipon nukite ken - first finger spear strike
• Kai ko ken - open fist strike
• Kakuto - head of the crane / goose neck strike
• Ko koo - tiger's mouth strike
• Kuma de - bear hand strike
• Keito - head of the hen strike
• Nakadaka ipon ken - middle finger knuckle strike
• Nihon nukite - two finger spear strike
• Nukite - Spear hand strike
• Seiken - clenched fist strike
• Shuto uchi - Knife (sword) hand strike
• Teisho uchi - Palm heel strike
• Tetsu tsui - [iron] hammer fist
• Uraken uchi - Back fist strike
• Washi de - eagle's beak strike
• Wan to - sword arm strike