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Cliff Judge wrote:
I dunno, it sounds to me like you are showing students that the point of the technique is to "return the forearm."  |
We differentiate between kote gaeshi and ude gaeshi. They are different techiques in our curriculum.
Nevertheless we also use doing kote gaeshi "
with just the forearm, without touching the hand at all" as learning tool. We also have a form of kote gaeshi without bending the wrist of uke. Or with applying his closed fist. Also we do kote gaeshi affecting uke's center via his wrist or his ellbow (which is different from ude gaeshi) or his shoulder (which is different from shiho nage). We have a form of kote gaeshi in which ukes hand gos up to the level of his head just like in shiho nage. And some other interesting things ...
All that is named kote gaeshi and all that has similarities that distinguish all those forms of kote gaeshi from ude gaeshi and from shiho nage.