Shita Zuki
下突き
Literally: lower punch
Also known as: Shita tsuki, Seiken shita tsuki, Body uppercut
Low fist strike driven upward from below into the trunk, a body uppercut; the Kyokushin organization KWF already teaches it at 9. kjú.
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Shita zuki (下突き), literally lower strike, is a fist strike directed from below at the opponent's trunk; Kyokushin glossaries describe it as a body uppercut, the Dutch syllabus as a low straight punch forward. The Japan Karatedo Federation (JKF) lists it among the straight strikes alongside seiken tsuki, as opposed to the arcing kagi zuki. The Kyokushin organization KWF lists seiken shita tsuki fifth on its list of hand strikes and teaches it at 9. kjú together with the vertical tate zuki and the hooking kagi zuki; the three strikes differ in delivery direction. They are preceded at 10. kjú by oi zuki, gyaku zuki, morote zuki and the chin strike ago uchi. In kumite under the WKF rules, a tsuki strike to a scoring zone is scored as yuko, one point.