O-soto-gake
大外掛 · おおそとがけ · major outer hook · said OH SOH-toh GAH-keh
Demonstrations
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About this technique
The hooking counterpart of the major outer reap: the attacking leg hooks behind uke's leg and stays there, 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
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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
- 4th 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 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.
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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.
VI judo notes
The hook is set calf to calf and stays there, which gives you a fixed reference for both bodies. Find it by swinging your leg past theirs and drawing it back until the calves meet, rather than placing it where you expect their leg to be. Drive with the chest, follow them down, and hold the sleeve up as they land.
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
, 4 recorded, 1 awaiting review
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- 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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