Stuff the Arm Drag! Shuto Uke as a Frame!

The following is a short clip from a practical karate seminar I taught at Abeweit Applied Karate Jutsu Dojo in Charlottetown, PEI. We were working on arm drags to take the back when a teachable moment led me to demonstrate how shuto uke can be used as a frame to counter.
Thanks to Jeff MacDonald for being my uke for this demonstration.

[@NBTKDA]

I show this as a grapple defense as well! For Taekwondo we call it an Assisted Knife Hand Block / 손날 거들어 막기 / Sonnal Geodeureo Makgi.

[@AppliedShotokan]

I stumbled across this grappling in a BJJ class once. I found myself doing it naturally. I love seeing TKD people getting interested in the practical applications of their forms!

[@NBTKDA]

@@AppliedShotokan Due to the origins of TKD being initially a mixture of Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Kodokan Judo and a sprinkling of Chinese Quanfa I find that it's often more educational to examine Kata Bunkai sources rather than Poomsae Bunhae. Thank you for the amazing content!

[@forwardchap]

Wonderful stuff Andy. Do you ever do seminars in Singapore?

[@AppliedShotokan]

I've never been there but I would love to have an excuse to visit!

[@Pifagorass]

Karate has no nonsense moves just lots of nonsense interpretations

[@AppliedShotokan]

I've made it work numerous times. Perhaps you can show us your no-nonsense moves for shuto.

[@AppliedShotokan]

Just just looked at your YT profile. I thought you might have some solid karate content. I found this. Solid. ua-cam.com/video/SVBXDyGHNSc/v-deo.html