Below are some common terms you will hear on and around the mat at Danzan Ryu Boston. Many are common Japanese terms, others a little less rare. Some are Hawaiian words or phrases which also influence our art form
Jujitsu Terms
- Atemi
- Striking
- Jujitsu
- Ju is yielding, gentle; jitsu is a art or technique
- Danzan Ryu
- Sandlewood mountain System. Danzan is the Japanese word for the Chinese name for the Hawaiian Islands
- Dantien
- Chinese. Your center of gravity, or energetic center point. A few inches below and behind your belly button
- Dojo
- School, a place to learn martial arts
- Domo Arigato
- Thank you very much
- Dozo
- Please
- Hajime
- Begin, go
- Hara
- Japanese. Your center of gravity, or energetic center point. A few inches below and behind your belly button
- Kata
- The basic form of an individual art or technique
- Kiotsuke
- Attention, please come to attention and prepare for class
- Kyu - Dan
- A common ranking system. Kyu ranks are beginning ranks, dan ranks are advanced ranks.i
- Kyu ranks are typiclaly colored belts. Dan ranks black belts
- Mate
- Stop, quit.
- Moichido
- Repeat, as in "I'd like to try that technique again"
- Ne waza
- Ground Techniques, grappling
- Obi
- Belt
- Otegai
- Class, other students
- Ni
- to, in the direction of
- Randori
- Standup fighting, judo style
- Rei
- Bow
- Ryu
- A system or school of martial arts
- Seiza
- Kneeling
- Shomen
- Front, place of honor, or altar
- Shomen Ni Rei
- Bow to the front, or altar area
- Sutemi
- To abandon. The term for a breakfall in Danzan Ryu
- Tai-Sabaki
- Whole body movements
- Tori
- The person performing the action, or the student
- Uke
- To receive, the person on which the action or art is performed
- Ukeme
- Falling
- Waza
- Technique, often combined with another word such as Atemi Waza (Striking techniques) or Te Waza (Hand Techniques)