O-soto-guruma

大外車 · major outer wheel

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Step by step

The whole movement in words, so no part of it depends on watching a video. Described in the standard right-handed form.

  1. From a right-handed grip, step your left foot deep beside the outside of your partner's right foot, breaking their weight back over both heels with your hands.
  2. Swing your right leg through and lay it as a bar behind both of their legs, across the backs of both thighs.
  3. Your chest presses forward as the leg holds behind them: their weight is trapped over the bar.
  4. Turn your trunk and hands so they wheel backwards over the barring leg.
  5. They fall onto their back behind the line of the bar; keep the sleeve and pull up on it as they land, because this fall goes straight back.

Receiving it

Like the major outer reap, but the leg arrives behind both of your legs at once: your weight is already back, and now nothing behind you can step. The fall is straight backwards and firm. Tuck your chin hard, breathe out, and slap with your free arm the moment your back lands.

VI judo notes

The bar goes behind both legs, so the step has to be deep: you are deep enough when your hip passes theirs, which you feel rather than judge. Lay the leg across the backs of both thighs by drawing it back until it meets them both. Pull hard on the sleeve as they go, because this one drops them straight backwards with neither leg able to step.

About this technique

Tori's leg bars behind both of uke's legs and uke is wheeled straight backwards over it.

Key points

  1. Bar the reaping leg behind both of uke's legs
  2. Break balance to the rear before the leg goes in
  3. Wheel uke back over the barring leg with both hands

Ashi-waza (foot and leg techniques) · Gokyo 5th set

In combinations, counters and transitions

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