Ko-uchi-gake
小内掛 · こうちがけ · minor inner hook · said KOH OO-chee GAH-keh
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About this technique
The hooking form of the minor inner reap: the foot hooks behind uke's heel and stays there while tori drives, often dropping low, rather than sweeping the heel away. Distinct from ko-uchi-gari; gake and gari name different actions.
Key points
- Hook the heel and keep it hooked
- Drive through their centre, low and direct
- Common in competition as a dropping attack; drill the drive standing first
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Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques)
At a glance
, classification, Gokyo set, Kodokan number, contest rules, grades that require it
- What it is
- Nage-waza (throwing techniques), Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques).
- Contest rules
- No rule singles it out.
- Required for
- 9th Mon (British Judo Association)
- 10th Mon (British Judo Association)
- 18th Mon (British Judo Association)
- 1st Kyu (JudoScotland)
Step by step
These steps describe the standard right-handed form without relying on the video.
Left-handed: these steps use the standard right-handed form. Swap every left and right.
- From a right-handed grip, step in so your right foot reaches their right heel from the inside.
- Hook your foot behind the heel, sole and instep wrapping it, and keep the hook.
- Drive forward through their centre with your body, hands pressing down and back.
- They cannot step the hooked foot back, and they fall to their back over it.
- Keep the sleeve as they land and recover your posture over them.
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Receiving it
A foot wraps your heel and stays while their body drives in: the trapped-foot feeling tells you a gake from a gari. Sit into the backward fall, chin tucked, and slap with your free arm.
VI judo notes
The hook has to find the heel by contact: step in until your foot meets the inside of theirs and then wrap it, rather than reaching for a position. Once it is hooked you have a fixed point to read them from, so drive through their centre with your body and keep the hook right through the landing.
In competition
, how often it scores at IJF level, and two contests where it worked
No score recorded in senior IJF competition between 2020 and 2026, across 73,099 contests. That is a fact about modern contest judo rather than a gap in the data: the technique is taught, examined and classified, and it does not score at this level.
In combinations, counters and transitions
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