That point about using the trap to bend the elbow was illuminating.

Nice. Your Kali looks good.

Cool.

Very interesting. I never made the connection.

We were working this in class today. The hardest part was hitting that top gaku hard enough to make the guy fall. It felt like an advanced  and very "Kokodo" waza, with lots of interesting concepts, like correct footwork, transfer of body weight,  and rotating the uke's hand to bar his arm with his own shuto. Challenging.

The audience missed Soke's joke about, "His name is Neck," haha. I've never done this waza before.

We were working this in class today, we had a little trouble getting the uke to go down to one knee.

This is the one where the attacker used to step on the thigh, right?

Thanks, I'll work on these. Your goshin "hug the elbow" variation is identical to what I do in Kali.

Thanks for the deep dive. I liked that summary at the end: shuto zeme, kote gaeshi, describe a circle, drop.