Any check which is enacted by keeping close to and pressing up against a key area or areas on an opponent's body to minimize the leverage of his action.

Comments:

This term refers to only one main characteristic of the overall checking maneuver. Because of this, the same checking maneuver can potentially be referred to in different ways or through a combination of characteristics.

Technically speaking, this is a form of contouring.

For more information about this subject see Check.

Synonym(s):

Check

Related Definition(s):

Block, Contour, Cover, Guard, Move, Position

Related Term(s):

Area Check, Body Alignment, Bracing Check, Burdening Check, Cocking Check, Collapsing Check, Cross Check, Defensive Check, Detaining Check, Dipping Check, Double Check, Grabbing Check, Gravitational Check, Jamming Check, Lock-out, Nudging Check, Offensive Check, Parrying Check, Patting Check, Pinning Check, Positioned Check, Pressing Check, Pushing Check, Rebounding Check, Recoiling Check, Rolling Check, Roving Check, Skip Check, Slap Check, Sliding Check, Striking Check, Twirling Check

Related Basic(s):

Positioned Block