Kake Uke
Literally: hooking block
Also known as: Tekubi Kake Uke
Kake uke, the hooking block, hooks the attacking arm and draws it aside; it is short for tekubi kake uke, wrist hook.
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Kake uke, literally hooking block, is a karate defensive technique that English Wikipedia lists in its overview of blocks as hooking block. According to the Karate Cosmos wiki it is a common short form of tekubi kake uke, wrist hook; related are ashibo kake uke, leg hook, and ashikubi kake uke, ankle hook. It is performed with a retreat or a forward-and-side step at a 45° angle with a body rotation, to evade the attack. Its purpose is not merely to knock the attacking arm aside but to hook it, deflect it and keep controlling it. In this it differs, for example, from age uke, which raises the forearm upward against a strike to the head. According to the kata breakdowns published by the JKA Edinburgh club, kake uke appears in the Shotokan kata Heian Godan (move 14), Tekki Shodan (moves 2 and 16) and Bassai Dai (move 27).