Learning Karate At Home - Kizami Tsuki or Jab Punch

Kizami zuki or jabbing punch is a a karate technique using the front arm. In karate classes, the karateka practice a few different versions of this move -
1. From zenkutsu dachi (front stance), punch with the front arm, leave the punch out, as you punch, be sure to pull the hikite arm back strongly, with the body finishing in the hanmi or side facing position.
2. From zenkutsu dachi (front stance), punch with the front arm, snap the punch back, making sure you have a strong hikite, which also snaps back strongly to jyu kamae.  
3. From jyu kamae or fighting stance, keep your guard up and punch with the lead arm, similar to a boxers jab, with no hikite.

Master Masatoshi Nakayama - Unsu

Shotokan Karate - Kata Unsu (M. Nakayama)

The great karate master, Masatoshi Nakayama was born in 1913, in Yamaguchi Prefecture Honshu Japan.

After graduating from university he went to Peking, to study Chinese. The young karate master practiced kung fu whilst staying in Peking.

Master Nakayama was very close to the founder of Shotokan Karate, Master Gichin Funakoshi and when master Funakoshi passed away, master Nakayama became the 2nd chief instructor of the famous JKA or Japan Karate Association.

He was responsible for the world wide expansion of shotokan Karate, throughout the 1960's and 1970's where fantastic karateka who had graduated from the JKA Instructor Training Program, were sent abroad to set up karate dojo and spread the word of shotokan karate and the JKA.