JKD Terminology
Bai jong - on guard or ready stance
Bil gee - finger jab
Bil sau - palm down block
Bong sau - elbow up block
Bo pai - double palm strike
Chi gerk - sticky legs
Chi sau - sticky hands
Choap chuie - knuckle fist
Ch'ung chuie - verticle fist
Da - hit
Dan chi sau - single handed chi sau
Do - "the way"
Dum tek - stomp kick
Fak sau - whisking arm, sideways
Fook sau - bridging hand or bridge-on arm
Gaun sau - a low outside wrist block
Gerk - foot or leg
Gin lai - salute, salutation
Gin sau - uppercut
Gnoy pak - outside pak sau
Go - high level
Gua chuie - back fist
Gua tek - inverted hook kick
Gum sau - pressing hand
Ha - low level
Ha so tek - inverted sweep kick
Hay, Hey - begin
Hou tek - back kick
Huen sau - circling hand
Jang - elbow
Jao-sau - running hand
Jeet - to intercept
Jeet tek - intercepting kick / stop kick
Jik chung - vertical punch
Jik chung chuie - straightblast
Jik tek - straight kick
Joap hop - group together
Jong tao - headbutt
Juen tek - spin kick
Jung seen - centerline
Juk tek - side kick
Jum sau - sinking block
Jung - middle
Jut sau - jerking hand
Kau sau - circling block
Kune - fist
Kwoon - school or training hall
Lan sau - bar arm
Lin Lop - cross grab
Lin sil die dar - simultaneous block and counter, absorb or bypass and continue without pause into counter.
Li sau - like a tan but without the diffusion / waist twist
Lop sau - grabbing hand
Lok sau - rolling hands, as in chi sau; also used for warding-off hands
Loy pak - inside pak sau
Man sau - inquisitive hand, forward guarding hand
Mook jong - wooden dummy
O'ou chuie - hooking fist
O'ou tek - hook kick or roundhouse kick
Pak sau - slapping hand
Ping chuie - horizontal fist
Phon sau - trapping hands
Sau - hand
Si bak - elder "gung fu" brother of "Sifu", instructor's senior
Si dai - younger "gung fu" brother, junior, one who learned after you
Sifu - your gung fu teacher
Si gung - grandfather, teacher of "Sifu"
Si hing - elder "gung fu" brother, senior, one who learned before you
Si je - elder "gung fu" sister
Si jo - founder of the style
Si juk - "gung fu" nephew, student of "Si dai"
Sil lim tao - 1st form of Wing Chun - "the little idea"
Si mo - wife of "Si fu", "gung fu" mother, female teacher
Si mui - younger "gung fu" sister
Si sook - younger "gung fu" brother of "Sifu", instructor's junior
Si sook gung - younger "gung fu" brother of "Si gung"
So tek - sweeping kick
Sol jee - sweeping fingers, chop to side as in the sil lim tao form
Sut - knee
Sut sau - Knife Hand
Tan sau - palm up block
Toe dai - student
Toe suen - student's student
Tok sau - (double) upward palm, lifting hand technique
Tung moon - fellow student, follower of the same style
Woang pak - cross hand slap cover
Wu sau - "praying" palm, rear guard hand, guarding hand
Yang - male, positive, true, hard, etc
Yin - female, negative, false, soft, etc
Yu bay - ready |
