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    O-goshi countered by Utsuri-goshi

    1. O-goshi大腰
    2. Utsuri-goshi移腰

    The changing hip throw is the counter that turns a hip attack into your own: absorb the entry by dropping lower than the attacker, lift them clear, and switch your hips beneath them as they come down. One throw becomes another in mid-air.

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    Step by step

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

    1. Feel their arm slide around your waist and their hip begin to turn in across yours as they attack with O-goshi.
    2. Drop your hips below theirs at once and widen your stance so you are the lower of the two.
    3. Wrap both arms around their waist and pull their body tight against your chest, taking the lift out of their throw.
    4. Straighten your legs and lift them clear of the mat, back braced straight.
    5. As they rise, swing your own hips through underneath them to the other side and turn your shoulders.
    6. Bring them down across your hip onto their back, lowering them under control with one arm behind their back. Build this one up gradually.

    Receiving it

    You are the attacker, and the hip throw stops being yours the moment their belt line drops below yours. You are pulled tight, lifted with your feet off the mat and nothing to push against, and then their hip changes sides underneath you and you come down on the other one. Do not struggle in the air. Stay tight, chin on your chest, and slap with your free arm as your back lands. Take this only from a partner who lowers you rather than drops you.

    VI judo notes

    The cue is at the belt line, which is exactly where a hip throw already has you in contact: their hips dropping under yours while your entry is only half made means the throw is now theirs. Countering, keep your chest against them through the whole change of side so you never lose where they are, and lift with your legs, not your back. Agree the drill first and add height slowly.

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