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Chris Hein wrote:
Tim Cartmell shows a reversel from Sankyo where you slap your own elbow down. I saw him demonstrate this against a very accomplished Aikidoka, and almost brake the Aikidoka's wrist. I hand never thought about this with shihonage, I'm excited to try it.
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To do this effectively though requires good timing, i.e. before the sankyo can be fullly applied or your asking for trouble like Mel attested to. However, if you do catch the timing it can be extremely effective. I remember doing it once in a jiyu (kaeshi-)waza situation and I caught the timing so well and surprised my unsuspecting uke to where even before I could even grab the reversal sankyo on him the very force of the arm movement coming back at him sent him flying away from me. Not the intended outcome but proved to me the effectiveness of the technique.