One Minute Bunkai: Jodan Uke #3

Jodan Uke or “upper level block” is commonly used against a straight punch to the face, but there are other uses for this powerful lifting motion. The main lesson of this bunkai is to illustrate that things often times may be preceded by another technique or movement, in this case the “Jodan Uke” is executed as a secondary move (not the primary move) to uplift and dislodge the opponent’s balance/body. You deal with the attack by “receiving it” and parrying it while you execute a reverse punch, here we have chosen to use an “ippon ken” or single knuckle punch delivered to the ribcage, solar plex, or any other target of opportunity that reveals itself at the moment. The follow-up using the Jodan Uke is augmented by picking up the opponent’s leg to deny him the use of it and to enforce the unbalancing which follows. The Jodan Uke is delivered not in a straight up and down vertical direction but in a forward “rising” diagonal adjusted to your opponents size/height.

[snieves]

It's amazing to me how wonderful Karate is and how "details" can you you grow in your study. mind totally blown by this...even after 30 years, the wealth of information you provide is priceless. Arigato Gozai Mashte.

[KillerBill]

All very well in the dojo. Not so well in the street where I've never seen anyone punch in such a way.

[megafrio]

Son movimientos oculto y golpes ocultos que tiene las defensa

[artimarzialiefitness-aless]

Keep showing these useless applications. Still make fun of practitioners, who are ignorant and stupid. Continuing to see the same applications over and over and convince themselves that they are correct. But the masters of the past weren't stupid. Those of the present are, who do not know the bunkai of kata, and they invent anything to mask their ignorance.