Gyakugeri chi ichi

What it means

The first two characters part of is pronounced "gyaku geri", a name of the Shorinji Kempo technique, the middle one character part is pronounced "chi", meaning "ground", and the last one character is pronounced "ichi", meaning "one or first". Thus this technique means "Guard against your opponent's gyaku geri low kick at your kinteki critical point and counterattack with a kick".

Techniques

Gyakugeri chi ichi(1) is a technique used to counterattack your opponent by a kick when he attacks you with his low kick at kinteki critical point. The differnce with Jungeri chi ichi is that your opponent's kick is gyaku geri in case of Gyakugeri chi ichi while in case of Jungeri chi ichi it is jun geri.

You(right) stand with your right foot forward.	Your opponent steps forward and draw your attention to his hand.	You guard his kick with Ken uke, "fist guard".	Counterattack with a kick.
Upper punch.	Middle punch.	Prepare for next movement.

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