Japanese Martial Arts Moves and Translations

Emoni

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I'm trying to do some translations for a friend of mine with my very limited Japanese skills, and trying to find out how to work this. He is fleshing out a martial arts system he has, and wanted to know the terms if he were to name his moves in Japanese.

The names he wanted translated were:

Crushing Fist
Bone Breaker
ultimate fist
crushing fist
leaping tiger
crouching tiger
dragons tail
crushing waves

I'm mainly looking for a pattern or ruleset for how these would be stated? Would connections such as No be forbidden? Which words are always used, and those that are avoided. I.E. Fist would be said one way, never another.

Thanks for any help you guys might have. Hopefully, I can get these done within a month.
 
well you would need to talk to a sensi because i dont know i have been studing Ninjistuu and i have been studing Iedo for a while and we do them in cossension with each other, like Curshing fist, Toch Bone Breaker Toch.. etc etc like that.
 
Hard to find a porta-sensei though :) And a Japanese speaking one at that. I'm looking at some of the websites seeing if I can find some examples, but isn't easy.
 
腕回転砕蹴殺。

Most times for moves like you are mentionning, they usually use sino-japanese compounds.

Example is the one above. Whoever can not only read that but explain (and more than the basic stuff, if you can describe methods to do as mentionned above) what I am doing gets a cookie. Note that it's NOT pretty, fancy, or look at me mock xyz-animal. It's effective, and then depending how I follow through with it, it can be totally brutal.
 
Sino-Japanese compounds?

Sorry, I'm still beginning... what is that? :P
 
The difference between the kun pronounciation (native japanese word) and the on pronounciation (the syllable close enough to its chinese origin) is basically when it is used.

The first one in my series is for the arm. In Japanese, "arm" is ude. Sometimes, when describing acts you are doing with your arm in big compounds and detail, it is instead pronounced "wan"

For the last two in my 6-string... I use 蹴殺 . Were this a native pronounciation, it would be keri-goroshi, the S-J pronounciation is shuusatsu. Either way, it still means "kicking to death"
 
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