I was recently looking at Kevin Seamans book on Jeet Kune Do.
I see he uses the term Gin choi for an uppercut punch. At first I thought this might be a mistyped word, but upon further examination of the book I see he then uses the same term for a kick and calls it the uppercut kick. Since he includes neither the Chinese character nor the Pinyin spelling for the terms in his book, the reader is led to believe his spelling is correct for the term uppercut.
To my knowledge in wing chun and in Cantonese Jin means arrow,
)) the book also uses the an other spelling gin ))
While I understand there can be mis typed words I have never heard gin/jin used for uppercut. In wing chun they use Chau kuen which can loosely mean uncover or taking something off and has other meanings that are hard to translate to English.
In wing chun they also use the term Juen which means to twist or drill which I know is correct. In other gung fu they also use POW choi which translates to cannon punch for an uppercut punch.

There are many other examples of terminology I could site but will just see what transpires here in the form of answers to this. I see he was taught by Dan and figure these are his terms and that he has used these terms for years and they are well known.

Hello Again!

I have that book (it was published by the same publisher that published my book) and I noticed tons of errors in terminology in the book! I go by the original terminology used by Bruce Lee. I have heard the term gin/jin chuie used for the uppercut, but do not actually know where it originated! I have heard Inosanto's people using the term, but that particular term does not exist on any of the original pre-1973 material of Bruce Lee's that I have seen (or if it did I have somehow managed to overlook it, which would be highly unlikely).

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