Hiji Otoshi variation with Te-gatana cut

🈲 Forbiddenness : 🍃 Advanced

📅 Year: 1985

⛩️ Source / Lineage: This video is an extract from Mitsugi Saotome Sensei’s demonstration at the first Aiki News Friendship Demonstration, held in Tokyo in April 1985.

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.