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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, retreat a step, drawing your partner forward so they follow and their weight rides the front foot.
- On their next step, slide back again and sink your body, this time drawing their balance past the edge of that front foot: they are floating, committed beyond their base.
- Rotate both hands as one wheel: sleeve hand pulling down towards your hip, lapel hand carrying across and around.
- Nothing touches their legs; the turn of your hands and the drop of your body alone steer their floating weight into a forward roll.
- They rotate over their own toes and land on their back in front of you. Keep the sleeve so the roll finishes supported.
Receiving it
There is no contact below your waist at all: you are drawn forward until your balance passes your toes, and then the hands simply steer you into a roll. It feels like tripping over nothing. Tuck, follow the rotation, and take a smooth forward breakfall onto your back, free arm slapping; done well it is one of the softest falls in judo.
VI judo notes
Nothing touches their legs, which makes this the purest hands-only throw here and a natural fit for VI judo: it is only their weight travelling past their own foot, and that is something your grips tell you exactly. Draw them into two steps and take the second one further than they expect. Keep the sleeve so the roll finishes supported.
About this technique
A pure hand throw: tori drops one knee and rotates uke's floating balance forward so uke falls with barely any contact.
Key points
- Catch uke's balance floating forward at full commitment
- Rotate with both hands in a steering-wheel action
- Drop the rear knee as you turn: timing beats strength
Te-waza (hand techniques) · Gokyo 4th set
In combinations, counters and transitions
None recorded yet. Nobody has written down a counter to Uki-otoshi, or a combination it belongs to. You can suggest one.