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The Shotokan Connect syllabus is here.
**This page is being updated to ensure it accurately reflects the syllabus. In the meantime, check the syllabus for your grade and then click on the relevant link below.**
- yoi (ready)
- rei (standing at start, kneeling at end)
- tying belt
- responses to instructor commands
- making a fist
- choku tsuki (standing punch)
- step forward gedan barai (downward block)
- step backward gedan barai
- oi tsuki chudan (stepping punch to belly)
- mawatte (turn)
- kiai (shout)
Punches
- oi zuki jodan (stepping punch to chin)
- oi zuki chudan (stepping punch to belly)
Blocks
- age uke (rising block)
- age uke, gyaki zuki (rising block, reverse punch)
- soto uke (outside block)
- soto uke, gyaku zuki (outside block, reverse punch)
- uchi uke (inside block)
- uchi uke, gyaku zuki (inside block, reverse punch)
- shuto uke
- shuto uke, nukite
Kicks
- mae geri (from kamae)
- mawashi geri (from kamae)
- yoko geri keage (from kamae, kiba dachi – just 1 kick at a time, not like the 2 in this video)
- yoko geri kekomi (from kamae, kiba dachi – just 1 kick at a time, not like the 2 in this video)
- ushiro geri
- mawashi geri, uraken, gyaku zuki
- yoko ren geri, front leg keage 1st step, front leg kekomi 2nd step (from kiba dachi, 6th kyu to 5th kyu)
- yoko ren geri, front leg keage 1st step, back leg kekomi 2nd step (from kiba dachi, 5th kyu to 4th kyu)
- yoko ren geri, back leg kekomi 1st step, front leg keage 2nd step (from kamae, 4th kyu to 3rd kyu)
Kumite
- kihon ippon kumite (1-step) right and left sides
- jodan oi tsuki (stepping punch to chin), defend with age uke (rising block), counter with chudan gyaku tsuki (reverse punch to belly)
- chudan oi tsuki (stepping punch to bely), defend with soto uke (outside block), counter with chudan gyaku tsuki (reverse punch to belly)
- age uke chudan
- mae geri gedan barai chudan gyaku zuki
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