Tekki Nidan 鉄騎二段
Iron horse, second level
What Tekki Nidan is.
The second of the horse-stance series, and the one most people find harder than its length suggests. It keeps the straight-line floor pattern and the single stance, but replaces much of the first form arm work with sequences that begin with the hands already in contact — hooking, pressing and pulling before striking. The techniques are smaller and the margin for hiding a weak stance is smaller with them.
What it develops
- Working from contact rather than from distance
- Endurance in a stance the form never releases
- Precision in short techniques, where a large motion would simply be wrong
- Reading a sequence as grappling rather than as blocking
MMAKF has not published a grading syllabus.
So this page tells you nothing about where Tekki Nidan sits in an examination, because the federation has not decided it. There is a named, empty place in the library for that association, and it stays empty until the federation fills it. What the federation has published about belts and progression is on the belt system page.
The belt system & grading →The Japanese in Tekki Nidan.
The words a student meets in this form, with the English beside them and an explanation of what each one actually is. These definitions are shared across the whole library, so they mean the same thing on every page.
| Term | Kanji | English | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| kiba-dachi | 騎馬立ち | horse-riding stance | Feet parallel and roughly twice shoulder width, knees pushed outward, weight even, back vertical. It is punishing to hold and that is the training effect: it builds the hip and thigh strength that everything else borrows from, and it teaches the student to generate power sideways rather than only forward. |
| nami-gaeshi | 波返し | returning wave | The foot snaps up and inward across the front of the standing leg and returns, like a wave breaking back. It is read as blocking a kick to the shin or the groin without moving the stance, and it is the movement that makes the horse-stance kata unmistakable. |
| kagi-zuki | 鉤突き | hook punch | A short punch across the front of the body with the elbow bent, thrown to the side rather than the front. It exists for an opponent who is already too close to straighten an arm at, which is why it belongs to the kata performed entirely in the horse stance. |
| uchi-uke | 内受け | inside block | The mirror of the outside block: the forearm sweeps from inside the body outward, taking the attack on the inner side and opening the opponent up. Beginners regularly swap the two names, and the way to keep them straight is to name the direction the arm travels, not where it ends. |
| hikite | 引き手 | drawing hand | The hand pulled sharply back to the hip as the other one strikes. It is not a resting position: the pull is half the power of the punch, and in application it is usually holding an arm, a wrist or a garment that is being dragged onto the strike. |
| kime | 決め | focus | The instantaneous tightening of the whole body at the end of a technique, followed immediately by release. It is what makes a karate technique stop dead rather than push, and a kata performed without it looks like a dance no matter how correct the shapes are. |
The full glossary, and every kata that uses each term, is on the kata library index.
Watching Tekki Nidan.
There is no verified video of Tekki Nidan here.
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The federation’s own kata training footage — general practice, not a performance of this or any other single form — is listed on the library index.