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Saturday, January 04, 2020
Harai tsurikomi ashi in competition
Harai tsurikomi ashi has never been one of my tokuiwaza (favorite/best moves) but it was a favorite of one of my instructors! Mac McNeese had a legendary osotogari-to-haraiTKashi combo that was just unbelievable!
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