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    Ashi-guruma into Tani-otoshi

    1. Ashi-guruma足車
    2. Tani-otoshi谷落

    Ashi-guruma asks your partner to come forward over an extended leg. Stepping around the block to escape it puts them behind their own feet, which is exactly where Tani-otoshi drops them.

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    Step by step

    The whole sequence in words. Described in the standard right-handed form.

    1. Take the standard grip: your left hand on their right sleeve, your right hand on their left lapel.
    2. Turn in for Ashi-guruma, your right leg straight across the front of both of their thighs, and pull them forward over it.
    3. Feel them step their right foot around the outside of your blocking leg to escape, which turns their hips and puts their weight behind their heels.
    4. Keep the sleeve, turn your chest to face the same way as theirs and extend your right leg behind both of their legs, sitting your hip low.
    5. Sit down close beside them and drive your shoulders back over your extended leg.
    6. They fall backwards over your leg onto their side; keep the sleeve so their head does not follow their hips down.

    Receiving it

    Their straight leg arrives across the front of both your thighs and your body is drawn forward over it. Stepping your right foot around the outside of that leg is the honest escape, and it is also what turns your hips and leaves your weight behind your heels, so expect the attack to change direction at once. When you feel their leg reappear low behind both of yours, stop trying to save your balance. Sit into the fall, chin on your chest, and slap the mat with your free left arm; your right sleeve stays held, so let that arm stay long rather than reaching back with it.

    VI judo notes

    The switch is a leg-to-leg conversation, so it costs a visually impaired judoka nothing. Keep your blocking leg where it is until you feel their thigh travel past it: that brush is their escape, and it is your cue to turn your chest and drop the same leg behind theirs. Because you both finish on the mat, agree the direction you are working in first and know where the edge is.

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