Hiji Otoshi variation with Te-gatana cut
🍃 Advanced
📅 1985
🏛 Archive
⛩️ Source
This video is an extract from Mitsugi Saotome Sensei’s demonstration at the first Aiki News Friendship Demonstration, held in Tokyo in April 1985.
🔖 Technique Notes
Mitsugi Saotome Sensei enters inside from a gyaku-hanmi grab, pivots, lowers his center, and rises as his Te-Gatana (knife hand) cuts down onto Uke’s elbow.
🧾 Info
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🌏 Origin
🥋 Senseï
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