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BLOCKS - UKE
Age uke - upper rising block. Used generally to guard against an
attack to the face
Ashibo-kake uke - leg hooking bloc, in which the leg is raised to
the side and swung in a circle to deflect an opponents kick to abdomen
Ashikubi-kake uke - ankle hooking block normally used toblock a
front kick. It is similar in motion to ashibo-kake uke
Awase uke - combined block. A generic term for any combined block
Chudan ude uke - middle level block, a general term for middle level
blocks
Empi uke - ebow block a general term for the blacking action using
the elbow
Gedan barai - lower level sweep. Normally the move students make
prior to going on to do their combinations, one of the reasons for
this is so that the first move in karate is a block which demonstrates
that karate is for self defence. When we call gedan barai it is
really short for gedan barai uke
Gedan barai uke - lower level sweeping block. Gedan barai but using
it as a block
Gedan soto ude uke - lower level outside forearm block, as seen
in the kata tekki nidan
Gedan uke - lower level block
Haishu uke - back hand block. A block using the back of the hand
Haito uke - ridge-hand block
Hai-wan uke - back arm block
Harai waza - sweeping techniques
Hiji uke - elbow block, a blocking ation using the elbow. Also see
empi uke
Jodan uke - high level blck
Jo uke waza - jo blocking techniques. Used in the kata bassai sho
Juju uke - X block
Kagi uke - hooking block
Kaisho uke - open hand block
Kake uke - hooking block. A generic term for hooking blocks
Kakiwake uke - reverse wedge block
Keito uke - chicken head block
Kentsui uke (tettsui uke) - hammer fist blocks
Kosa uke - crossed block
Koken uke - wrist strike block
Morote uke - augmented block
Nagashi uke - sweeping block. This is one of the three times nagashi
is referred to as sweeping
Nami ashi - inside snapping block, also known as returning wave,
as seen in the kata tekki shodan
Otoshi-uke - dropping block
Seir yuto uke - ox jaw block. A hand technique delivered with the
base of the shuto (knife hand)
Shuto uke - knife hand block
Soto ude uke outside forearm blockor sometimes said as lower wrist
block
Soto uke - outside block, normally a shortened version of soto ude
uke
Sukui uke - scooping block
Te gatana uke - hand sword block, this is now commonly referred
to as shuto uke
Teisho barai - palm hand sweep. As seen in the kata unsu
Teisho uke - palm hand block
Tsukami uke - grasping block
Tsuki uke - punching block
Uchi ude uke - inside forearm block
Uchi uke - inside block generally used as a short version of uchi
ude uke
Ude uke - forearm block
Uke - block
Uraken uke - back fist block. For when the back fist is used as
a block. This application is seen in the kata heian nidan
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