I saw this in Japan, then only a couple times in Calgary. Takashi-san showed this to me again so it got me excited. I don’t want another year to go by before I see this again so when I encountered it in Saito Sensei’s video I quickly took some screen shots and wrote this post.

Step 1

Step 2

Saito Sensei is about to ‘flip’ the angle of Uke‘s elbow. When he does this, there is no need for a large tenkan to bring Uke around for a pin – he is done now.

Step 3

Step 4 - The pin