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[Video of this waza fast and slow, from the side, and ideally, overhead]

Defense against a pursuit punch

• Inside 7-3, with a cross-body block.
• Execute an inside elbow strike with your opposite-side hand, as an atemi.
• Immediately follow-up with a simultaneous (Kūsankū) same-side grasping block to the wrist, and an opposite-side makkikomi-shutō to the opponent’s throat.
• Grasp the back of the opponent’s head, and perform a neck circle takedown.
• Apply a shovel pin or other joint lock.

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