Washide Uchi
鷲手打ち
Literally: eagle-hand strike
Also known as: Washide, Washite, Washi-de, Eagle hand
Hand strike shaped like an eagle's claw, with fingertips clenched together like a beak; in Shotokan it appears in the kata Gojushiho Dai.
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Washide uchi (鷲手打ち) is a hand strike shaped like an eagle's claw, washide. The fingertips clench together until the hand resembles a bird's beak, and the strike is delivered with this tip. Shotokan technique lists place washite, the eagle hand, among the separate natural weapons of the body, distinct from the piercing nukite with extended fingers, from the bear-paw kumade with fingers bent into a hook, and from the hand-edge haito; each has a different hand shape and striking surface. In Shotokan, the eagle hand appears in the kata Gojushiho Dai. It is not used in sport kumite: the 2024 WKF rules ban open-hand attacks to the face as well as any contact with the neck.