Find the right distance.










Ukemi: left suriashi and attack with tobikomizuki jodan.
Torimi: twist the hips to the right and perform taisabaki. Parry the attack, using the right arm in an upright position. Though the hips turn right rather then left, the movement should feel as if turning the hips to the left. Use this to perform a small evasion.
Re-direct the attack backward, without any opposing force.





Ukemi: attack with a right gyakuzuki no tsukomi chudan towards seigetsu. It is important to make use of your body-weight while executing this technique.
Torimi: taisabaki to the right with the whole body. Parry the attack using right maki-uke, twist your lower arm for extra force; keep the left hand in front of the chest to protect suigetsu and as a preparation to grab ukemi's right hand.


Torimi: keep pressing your right fist against ukemi's arm; take his left hand and press with your thumb the back of his hand, at the location of the ringfinger: the pressure will force ukemi to open his fist.







Torimi: take care to tighten seikatanden, lower your centre of gravity, twist ukemi's right wrist and keep it under pressure. Kime. Attack with a right karasugushi ipponken to the side of the nose.







Torimi: Move into shikodachi on the inside of ukemi's left leg and bend your knees a little; keep control of ukemi's right arm and attack with empi to suigetsu. Keep seikatanden tightened!







Torimi: grab ukemi's right hand and twist the wrist a little further, using both your hands. Press your elbow against his. This action will give you control over ukemi.








Torimi: by bending your body a little forward, you inevitably use your body-weight; if you turn the wrist a little further at the same time, ukemi will fall down without much effort.







Torimi: keep control over ukemi's right arm using both your hands and place your right foot under his back.









Torimi: Use your right foot as a base to press your right knee against ukemi's elbow. There will only be full control as long as you press the elbow against ukemi's ear.








Torimi: again twist ukemi's wrist, using your left hand. By now you will have gained a perfect control using ukemi's back, elbow and wrist. This may hurt ukemi and as a result he will lift his right leg and pulls his back hollow. If this doesn't happen, the techniques haven't been performed properly and there's no full control.





Torimi: attack with junzuki to the face, but take care to keep the pressure. Kime.









Torimi: keep the pressure and prepare to withdraw.










Torimi: pull back your right leg. This will relieve the tension on the elbow and back.









Torimi: to prevent any further attack you 'throw' away ukemi's arm.









Torimi: step backwards in right hanmi.
Ukemi: turn around and prepare to stand up. Keep paying attention to torimi's movements. Keep concentrated untill the very end of the kumite.








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