Osawa Sensei at Hombu, and one of the senseis at the seminar on Sunday, Aug 15th are the two shihans who I have seen do this firsthand. In fact, at the seminar we tried it, but when we practiced it on Sunday and I took an informal survey, those I asked didn’t have much luck with it… and even forgot we tried it! That leads to another learning theory I have, but I want to look into this very cool technique.

Uke comes in and takes hold of one wrist. Tori does irimi with his outside foot. As Uke comes around to chase that far wrist that has moved forward with Tori, Tori does tenkaisoku and then steps back. In other words, Tori moves in irimi tenkan, or simply kaiten. If the timing and belnding are good, and Tori can extend Uke up using good tekubitori practices, and both can share the same kijiku, then this is just a tight-rotation practice.

[insert still of Osawa Sensei]