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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.
- Your partner attacks with the inner thigh throw, turning in and sweeping a leg up between yours.
- In the moment before their thigh contacts yours, shift the target leg aside, a small step or turn of the hips, so the sweep rises through empty air.
- Their rotation is already committed: keep your grips and steer it onward with both hands, around and down.
- Turn your body with the steer so their missed throw becomes your throw.
- They land on their back in front of you, thrown by their own attack; keep the sleeve for the landing.
Receiving it
You attack uchi-mata and the leg you meant to lift is simply not there: your own turn carries on into the mat. It is a big committed fall from your own momentum, so tuck your chin, keep turning, and take a full forward breakfall; being countered cleanly is part of learning the attack.
About this technique
The counter that empties uchi-mata: as the sweeping leg rises, tori slips the attacked leg aside so the sweep meets nothing, and steers the attacker's committed rotation to the mat with the hands alone. A recognised Kodokan hand technique and one of judo's most elegant counters.
Key points
- Slip the target leg aside a fraction before the sweep bites
- Their own rotation does the throwing; your hands only steer
- No lift, no sweep of your own: timing is the entire technique
Te-waza (hand techniques)
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