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The whole movement in words, so no part of it depends on watching a video. Described in the standard right-handed form.
Left-handed: these steps are written right-handed, as the syllabuses write them. Read every left as a right and every right as a left, and the throw is yours.
- 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.
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.
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
Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques)
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