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    Ko-soto-gake countered by Tai-otoshi

    1. Ko-soto-gake小外掛
    2. Tai-otoshi体落

    The hooking leg commits the attacker close and square; turning in and dropping the blocking leg across their shin turns their hook into your body drop.

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    Step by step

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

    1. Feel their calf hook behind your right leg and their chest arrive tight against yours as they attack with Ko-soto-gake.
    2. Do not go backwards with it: bend the hooked leg, drive your hips forward into them and take your weight onto your left foot.
    3. Keep both grips and turn your chest to face the same way as theirs, pulling their right sleeve down and across your body.
    4. Their hooking leg carries no weight, so step your right foot across the front of their supporting foot, leg straight and knee braced.
    5. Turn your hands like a wheel, sleeve down and lapel around, sending their chest over your extended leg.
    6. They tip over the block onto their back; keep the sleeve to control the landing.

    Receiving it

    You are the attacker. Hooking commits you close and square, and if the hook does not take them down at once you are standing on one foot with your chest already against theirs. They turn with you rather than away, a straight leg appears across the front of your supporting foot, and their hands wheel you over it. Once the block is there you cannot step. Turn with the wheel, chin tucked, and slap with your free left arm as your back lands.

    VI judo notes

    A hook is contact, and contact is information for both of you: your leg tells you their supporting foot is directly under their weight. Turn to face their direction before you place the block, so your leg travels along their shin to the foot rather than reaching for it. Attacking, take the lesson that a hook which stalls leaves you closer to your partner than any other stalled attack.

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