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DACHIS (Positions)
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| Seiza |
On
knees with the insteps rested on the floor (the boys with
the legs separated in 45º and the girls with the legs
united). |
| Anza |
Sat
with legs crossed. |
| Heisoku-dachi |
Firm
legs, united and parallel, feet looking at the front. |
Kaihei-dachi
(Musubi-dachi) |
PFirm
legs and united heels, the tops of the feet look in 45º. |
| Heiko-dachi |
Separated
legs, the width of the feet is the same as the shoulders,
these are parallel and looking at the front. |
|
Hachiji-dachi
(Soto-hachiji-dachi)
|
The
legs separated to the width of the shoulders, the tops of
the feet look in 45º.
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| Zenkutsu
dachi |
The
back leg is totally widespread and it's foot based and looking
at 45 º on the outside, the front leg is flexioned and
it's knee in perpendicularly on the instep, the width is the
same as the hip. |
| Shiko-dachi |
The
legs are separated to the double of the width of the shoulders
and flexioned. The fingers of the feet look in 45º. |
| Moro-dachi |
The
width of the feet is the same as the shoulders and it's length,
a step to the front. Normally there coincides the line of
the heel of the foot advanced with that of the toes slowed
down. |
| Neko-ashi-dachi |
The
anticipated leg is flexioned and supported lightly on the
koshi of the foot, the back strongly flexioned, the foot
looks at the exterior in 45º, the length between both
is that of a step approximately.
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| Kosa-dachi |
The
back leg crosses behind the forward, the trunk, this one to
the front. |
| Kake-ashi-dachi |
The
back leg crosses behind the forward, the trunk this one lightly
in hanmi. |
Ipon-ashi
Dachi
(Sagi-ashi Dachi,
Turo-ashi
Dachi) |
Position
only in one leg (they exist several ways of doing it).
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| Naifanchin-dachi |
The
legs are separated to one width and a half of that of the
shoulders, the legs flexioned and the feet look at the front
parallel, the thumbs are elevateds. |
| Nigeashi-dachi |
The
distance between both feet, is like that of the Zenkutsu-dachi,
the heels are in the same line and the fingers of the feet
look in 45º. The anticipated leg is stretched and the
back flexioned. |
| Kokutsu-dachi |
The
front foot looks at the front in line with the heel of the
backward foot, the anticipated leg is lightly flexioned and
the heel a little detached from the floor, the backward leg
is strongly flexioned and both it's knee and it's foot look
in 45º at the exterior. In kihon, the two feet look at
the front. |
| Sanchin-dachi |
The
legs are separated to the width of the shoulders, the toes
of the backward foot pass from the line of the heel of the
anticipated foot, both feet are re-put towards the interior.
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DACHIS
(Belonging to other schools) |
| Renoji-dachi |
The
foot of the front leg looks at the front and the back 90º,
the heel of the front leg coincides with the back. |
| Uchi-hachiji-dachi |
Separated
legs, the width of the feet are that of the shoulders, the
tops of these are re-put towards the interior. |
Fudo-dachi
(Sochin-dachi) |
Intermediate
position between the kiba-dachi and zenkutsu-dachi, the legs
are flexioned and the feet are parallel and in 45º with
regard to the front, the heel of the backward leg coincides
with the fingers of the anticipated leg. The trunk is in hanmi.
|
| Hangetsu-dachi |
It
is like Sanchin-dachi, except that the separation of the feet
is like a zenkutsu-dachi and the back foot looks at the front. |
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Kiba-dachi
|
Separated
and flexioned legs. The width of the feet is one and a half
of the shoulders and they are parallel looking at the front. |
