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    De-ashi-harai countered by Ko-uchi-gari

    1. De-ashi-harai出足払
    2. Ko-uchi-gari小内刈

    A sweep that misses leaves your partner standing on one leg with their sweeping foot in the air. Reaping the leg they are standing on answers it directly.

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    Step by step

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

    1. Feel their foot arrive against your advancing ankle as they attempt De-ashi-barai.
    2. Lift your swept foot clear rather than resisting, and keep your grips.
    3. Put that foot down beyond their sweep and take their weight onto it.
    4. Their sweeping leg is still off the mat, so all their weight is on their supporting leg: push their chest back with your lapel hand.
    5. Reap that supporting foot inwards with the sole of your foot.
    6. They sit down backwards; keep the sleeve and follow them down under control.

    Receiving it

    You are the one attacking here. Your sweep meets an ankle that is no longer there, and your own sweeping leg is still in the air with nowhere to put it, so everything you have is on one supporting foot. Expect their sole against the inside of that foot almost immediately, and expect to go straight down. Do not fight to stay up on one leg. Keep your chin tucked, let your held arm stay long instead of posting behind you, and slap hard with your free arm as your back meets the mat.

    VI judo notes

    The counter starts at your own foot, which is the plainest signal in judo to read without sight: their ankle lifting away rather than resisting tells you the sweep has missed before your leg has finished travelling. Keep both grips while your foot works, so their supporting leg is where your hands say it is. As the sweeper, take the lesson too, because from the gripped-up start there is no distance to retreat into: sweep only when you have felt the weight leave the foot.

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