Jodan age uke

Jodan age uke, by Kagawa sensei, 8th dan, JKS world technical director.

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• Masao
• Kagawa
• sensei
• JKS
• shotokan
• karate

[Crashbandicootlover]

woah, we call it Jodan uke

[charger089]

Age mean rising.

[nintai79]

uke means block jodan is only the hight of a technique and the right name for this block is age uke

[charger089]

Jodan is for the head level

Age is for the rising motion

Uke is for blocking

So Jodan Age Uke mean rising block to the head (or something like that, my english isn't really good, as your japanese).

[feher75]

this is the best jodan age uke i never see

[wapcake]

THese videos of Kagawa sensei make all the others look like garbage. This is real Karate.

[deathskunk3]

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[osensei2987]

@nintai79 Correct you are! Jodan mean upper level. Whereas age uke means rising block. So saying "jodan age uke" is actually being redundant as in "upper level, rising block".

[OXCerberusX0]

this guy is so god damn good.

[Crashbandicootlover]

@shatterhandeve No, did I say that it was important?

[shatterhandeve]

@Crashbandicootlover is the naming so important ? 

[picoaga]

the first block was in less than a sec, wow!

[Grantboy11]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[osensei2987]

@masserby They also make good arm breakers! If you ever wonder why we put our chambering hand on our hips, It's so that you can get used to grabbing and pulling with the chambering hand while you use ur free hand to strike or break. Age uke, chudan uke, soto uke can all be used to break a limb while it's being pull by the chambering hand. But ppl think we chamber our hand for the purpose of preparing to punch. No! That hand is supposed to be pulling something (cloths, limbs, etc.).

[MrTerryKay]

@AtzemitderGlatze

I can see your point, but that same foundation of a strong hip rotation is just as obvious without microscope close up detail. It's probably even better enhanced when seen in relation to his legs. A bit like those guess the object pictures from very close in. Sometime closeness, instead of showing something off, masks it. To truly admire a painting or, for that matter, any other work of art, we step back.

[AtzemitderGlatze]

@MrTerryKay

I agree that a longer view of the full technique would be nice, nonetheless i think chrissic21 is right when he says that the camera man wanted to focus rather on the hip rotation than on the belt. After all the hip is where the power of this technique comes from. And kagawa's hip usage is absolutely breathtaking.

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