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O-soto-gari countered by O-soto-gaeshi
The direct answer to a major outer reap: the reaping leg is off the mat and carrying no weight, so reaping it in turn takes their only remaining support.
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This pairing is a named technique in its own right: O-soto-gaeshi.
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Step by step
These steps describe the whole sequence in the standard right-handed form.
Left-handed: these steps use the standard right-handed form. Swap every left and right.
- Feel the back of their leg arrive behind yours as they attempt O-soto-gari.
- Bend your attacked leg and drive your hips forward into them so the reap cannot straighten it.
- Keep both grips and pull their chest onto your shoulder line so their weight comes forward.
- Their reaping leg is still in the air: swing your own leg past it and reap the back of their supporting leg.
- Drive your shoulders forward and down over the reap.
- They fall backwards; keep the sleeve and stay upright over them.
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Receiving it
You are the attacker, and the reap arrives to find their leg bent and their hips driving forward into you, which leaves your own reaping leg in the air with nothing to come back to. Their leg then swings past it and takes your supporting leg. It is a fast backward fall from a full commitment. Keep your chin on your chest, do not reach behind you, and slap hard with your free arm as your back meets the mat.
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VI judo notes
The counter is decided at the moment of contact behind your leg, which needs no sight: bend the attacked leg and drive your hips forward before the reap can straighten it. Keep both grips and pull their chest onto your shoulder line so their weight comes forward as your own leg swings. Reap the leg they are standing on, not the one that is already travelling.
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How it is taught elsewhere
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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology · Japan
This guidance was written for compulsory school physical education in Japan, not club instruction, and is taught to a whole class, including everyone who did not choose judo. Its teaching stage does not indicate how difficult the technique is.
Varying nage-waza: countering the opponent
Tori counters uke's o-soto-gari and applies o-soto-gaeshi (major outer reap counter).
Printed page 150
How to take the breakfall
Uke takes an ushiro-ukemi (rear breakfall) in time with the o-soto-gaeshi.
Printed page 150
The pages this is taken from
From School Physical Education Practical Instruction Materials No. 2 (Third Revised Edition): Guide to Teaching Judo, published by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. Page images are reproduced from that document.
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