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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, step in so your right foot reaches their right heel from the inside.
- Hook your foot behind the heel, sole and instep wrapping it, and keep the hook.
- Drive forward through their centre with your body, hands pressing down and back.
- They cannot step the hooked foot back, and they fall to their back over it.
- Keep the sleeve as they land and recover your posture over them.
Receiving it
A foot wraps your heel and stays while their body drives in: the trapped-foot feeling tells you a gake from a gari. Sit into the backward fall, chin tucked, and slap with your free arm.
VI judo notes
The hook has to find the heel by contact: step in until your foot meets the inside of theirs and then wrap it, rather than reaching for a position. Once it is hooked you have a fixed point to read them from, so drive through their centre with your body and keep the hook right through the landing.
About this technique
The hooking form of the minor inner reap: the foot hooks behind uke's heel and stays there while tori drives, often dropping low, rather than sweeping the heel away. Distinct from ko-uchi-gari; gake and gari name different actions.
Key points
- Hook the heel and keep it hooked
- Drive through their centre, low and direct
- Common in competition as a dropping attack; drill the drive standing first
Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques)
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