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Step by step
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 your left foot beside the outside of their right foot, close, as for the major outer reap.
- Swing your right leg past theirs and hook it back around their right leg, calf to calf, and keep it hooked.
- Drive your chest forward and down over the trapped leg, both hands pressing their weight back.
- Follow them down as they topple over the hook, staying balanced above.
- They land on their back; release the hook as they land and hold the sleeve up for the breakfall.
Receiving it
Like the outer reap, but the leg stays wrapped behind yours: no reap, just a trap and a growing drive backwards. Tuck your chin, take the rear breakfall, and expect them to arrive close behind the fall.
About this technique
The hooking counterpart of the major outer reap: the attacking leg hooks behind uke's leg and STAYS, driving them down over the trap rather than reaping through. Named separately in British syllabuses; gake (hook) and gari (reap) are different actions, not different spellings.
Key points
- Hook behind their leg and keep it; do not reap through
- Drive with the chest over the trapped leg
- Follow down with control, releasing the hook as they land
Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques)
In combinations, counters and transitions
- combinationHarai-goshi into O-soto-gake
- combinationKo-uchi-gari into O-soto-gake
- combinationO-soto-gake into O-soto-gari
- combinationO-soto-gake into Seoi-otoshi
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