counter
Uchi-mata countered by Tai-otoshi
When your partner commits to Uchi-mata their lifting leg is off the mat and everything rests on one foot. Blocking that foot and turning them is the standard answer.
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Step by step
The whole sequence in words. Described in the standard right-handed form.
- Feel their thigh arrive between your legs as they turn in for Uchi-mata.
- Drop your hips and widen your stance so the lift cannot get underneath you.
- Keep both grips and turn your chest in the same direction as theirs.
- Extend your near leg across the front of their supporting foot, knee braced and leg straight.
- Turn your hands like a wheel, pulling the sleeve down and driving the lapel around.
- They tip over your extended leg onto their back; keep the sleeve.
Receiving it
You are the attacker, and once you commit to the lift your other foot is carrying everything. They drop their hips so the lift finds nothing, turn to face your direction and put a straight leg across the front of that supporting foot. Their hands then wheel you over your own block. Turn with it rather than fighting to land on your feet, chin tucked, and slap with your free left arm as your back lands.
VI judo notes
Their leg arriving between yours is the cue, and it comes with contact everywhere else, so this counter is entirely readable from the grips. Widen and sink first, because a counter attempted while your balance is still going is only a slower fall. Turn to face their direction before you extend the blocking leg, so it travels along their shin to the foot.
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