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Rh no Japanese will ever employ it except when it is necessary in a matter of life or death. If the man attacked receives the knee-blow in the abdomen he has no counter-blow. In breaking the clinch alone he can use the throw-off for the throat-hold that is illustrated in this volume.

The feat above described is practised in the jiu-jitsu schools with great assiduity. It is one that calls for the utmost agility. It is a form of assault that cannot be countered if it is used with enough swiftness. But where the attack is meant to be decisive and ugly the knee must be brought to the abdomen at the very instant of attack. After one experiment it will be evident to the student that his left arm must go between his opponent's right arm and the body. If his arm goes around outside of his opponent's right arm the man attacked will have some added advantage in resisting the assault.