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The whole movement in words, so no part of it depends on watching a video. Described in the standard right-handed form.
Left-handed: these steps are written right-handed, as the syllabuses write them. Read every left as a right and every right as a left, and the throw is yours.
- From a right-handed grip, drift your partner's balance towards their right front corner, drawing them slightly onto their toes.
- Step your right foot out to the side, roughly level with their right foot and a shoulder-width away, toes turned out, so your body faces across theirs.
- Place the sole of your left foot lightly against the outside of their right knee, at the kneecap. The foot rests there as a block: do not kick or push.
- Turn both hands as if turning a large wheel to your left: your left hand pulls their sleeve down past your hip, your right hand carries their lapel up and across.
- Their body wheels over the blocked knee. Keep the wheel turning until they roll over and land on their back to your left, and keep the sleeve in your hand.
Receiving it
You feel your balance drawn to your front corner, then a light block arrives at your knee and your body keeps travelling over it. You wheel forwards and land on your back. Your right sleeve is held; tuck your chin, turn with the rotation rather than fighting it, and slap with your left arm as your back lands.
VI judo notes
The block is placed by touch: slide your sole up the outside of their shin until it meets the swell of the knee, then stop pushing and turn your hands. From the gripped-up start the wheel is in the arms in any case, and you can feel it working as soon as their shoulders start turning around a leg that has stopped moving.
About this technique
Tori blocks uke's knee with the sole of the foot and wheels uke forward over it, using rotation of the hands rather than strength.
Key points
- Place the sole lightly on the side of uke's knee, do not kick
- Break balance to uke's front corner before the block
- Turn the steering-wheel action of the hands all the way through
Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques) · Gokyo 1st set
In combinations, counters and transitions
- combinationDe-ashi-harai into Hiza-guruma
- counterHiza-guruma countered by Ko-uchi-gari
- counterHiza-guruma countered by O-uchi-gari
- counterHiza-guruma countered by Okuri-ashi-harai
- combinationHiza-guruma into Ashi-guruma
- combinationHiza-guruma into De-ashi-harai
- combinationHiza-guruma into Harai-goshi
- combinationHiza-guruma into O-soto-gari
- counterO-uchi-gari countered by Hiza-guruma
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