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DrobyshevskyKarateSystem:BASSAI DAI-Bunkai Kumite-12-Tsukami Uke-Sword Disarm
Ryosho Tsukami Uke (両掌掴み受け, ryōshō tsukami-uke), often called Bassai-uke or "both palms grasping block/receiving," is a distinctive technique in Bassai Dai (抜塞大), one of the most iconic Shotokan kata. Where it appears in Bassai Dai In the standard JKA/Shotokan counting (42 movements total), it occurs around movement 18: After a series of shuto-uke (knife-hand blocks) in kokutsu-dachi. You perform ryosho-tsukami-uke → slow speed, in ashi-zenkutsu-dachi (kind of forward-leaning stance with gyaku-hanmi / reverse half-body position), chudan level. It is immediately followed (movement 19) by gedan sokuto kekomi (low-level side thrust kick) while the hands do ryosho tsukami-yose (grasping-pulling action). This…