King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

Joge kaki uke

Up & down hook block – a Karate block

Type
Blocks and parries
Martial arts
Karate
Meaning
Up & down hook block
Listed in
Using the arms (Shotokan karate)

up & down hook block (e.g. in the kata, Enpi)

The name word by word

Each part of the romanized name looked up in the JMdict Japanese dictionary.

WordJapaneseReadingMeaning
Joge上下じょうげtop and bottom; high and low
kaki
uke受けうけdefense; defence

Other Karate blocks and parries

text quoted from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.