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[Raígma]

Greetings everyone.

I opened this thread to find out the meanings of all these japanese names. I hope the ones of you speaking japanese help me (the others too but japanese may know best).
There are many things I do not understand but I´m going to sum it up by time. Maybe you can give me a link to some explanations too. Even better if they were in german but keep linking english sites, too.
The first things I don´t know are as follows.

Seme

Sempai (compared to Sensei?)

RenSokuMen (Spelling?)

Renshi and so on (I think there are three specifications, what do they mean?)


Would also be nice to have a list of all those combinations like
Debana Kote and Men Suriage Men with the way of movements.

Thank you for helping!

[KhawMengLee]

http://www.singaporekendo.org.sg/kendo/terms.html

a few terms answered there:


seme- is the preasure one uses to break the opponent's centre.

sempai- senior or higher ranking student

?

Titles given to 6thdan, 7thdan, and 8th dan respectively.

[aru-ma]

I think its renzoku men, like renzoku waza which means techniques that is comprised of multiple cuts (eg. kote-men, kote-men -do, etc.) or in ths case multiple men cuts.

[Raígma]

I would like to get the translations of the following words.

Kihon [Waza] (Are those the ground techniques?)

Taiatari

The meanings of:
Debana-
Nuki-
Suriage-
Harai-
Kaeshi-
Menmisete-
Osaete-
Tohma-
Tuki-(ni-)
Ura-(osaete)-
Gyaku-

Those are just a few words linked with some kind of combos I guess.
Just found them and it would help very much to know the meanings of them to understand the sense of the moves.


Thank you

[KATSUJIN]

Gyaku-reverse

for the rest...see the online kendo glossaries....

[matsu]

Hi,
My first post this, actually after some time as a lurker/reader :)
Anyway here goes from what I know:

TaiAtari : Body hit/strike (tai often means body, taisabaki = body movement)

Debana: Hmm, not sure what the word means but the Debana waza means to strike your opponent when he begins to strike you e.g. he begins a kote or men - you quickly reach out and hit his kote as he's lifting.

SuriAge: means something like 'Sliding parry' (compare 'suri-ashi'?).

Harai: Not sure of the word, technique is to strike opponents shinai away from the center-line.

Kaeshi: I think this means something like 'to shift' (side) e.g. the shifting of side-strikes i kiri-kaeshi, men-kaeshi-do is when you parry a men strike with the tip of your shinai to the right then swing round to make a do strike (tip to left)

Please correct me if anyone knows better since the above is stuff I have more or less guessed/deduced on my own :)

Regards/
/mats

[stevemcgee99]

I'd guess harai is hara + ai = use your "hara" to push their kensen away. It doen't work if you use yor arms.

I saw a english Kendo dictionary at the Eguchi booth at the Salinas TaiKai. Wish I'd splurged on that, too.