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<span lang="EN-GB" style="">'''[[Hyakuretsu Ken]]''' (</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">百裂拳</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">, ''Hundred Crack Fist''): Kenshiro's trademark technique; the one most frequently associated with him. It is characterized as a strike of over a hundred blows, delivered at rapid speed to the designated 708 [[Keiraku Hikō]] (Pressure Points) on the adversary's body. </span>Each attack is usually accompanied by shouting, "Atatatatata!".

'''[[Tenha no Kamae]]'''<span lang="EN-GB" style="">''' '''(</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">天破の構え</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">, ''Heaven Breaking Stance''): A stance that resembles the Hokuto constellation. In ''Souten no Ken'', this technique is revealed to be one of the secrets Shuken learned from the ''Seito Gekken'' style. </span>

'''[[Musō Tensei]]''' <span lang="EN-GB" style="">(</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">無想転生</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">, </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushin <span lang="EN-GB" style="">Nil-Thought</span>]'' ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_%28Buddhism%29 <span lang="EN-GB" style="">Rebirth</span>]''<span lang="EN-GB" style="">)</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">㊙</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">: The ultimate Hokuto Shin Ken technique, which had never before been fully mastered by anyone in the 1800 year history of the style. Kenshiro was the first to master it, followed by Raoh. Ken achieved this by becoming consumed with sorrow to the point where he had achieved communion with the deathless absolute emptiness or void spoken of in Buddhism. At times it enables him to be at one with the spirits of deceased fighters (Toki, the Nanto Rokusei warriors), and in the second series, it enables his spirit to fight Kaio even though he is in a coma (following the first fight with Kaio, after Shachi escapes with his body). Its mastery was perfected after Kenshiro learned the secrets of the Hokuto Souke in Taiseiden, Asura, in the second TV series.</span>