r/judo shodan Dec 17 '24

Competing and Tournaments Kouchi while grabbing your own leg.

At a recent local tournament we had this situation, that was a little bit of a controversy. While Tori is not grabbing Ukes leg, in my opinion preventing the possibility of stepping back and thus defending the throw would still fall under blocking the leg. What's your opinion? Would you have given the score or shido?

>! decision was score !<

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24

He touches the opponents leg with his arm. I remember similar situation happened with Rafaela Silva during Olympic games (I dont remember which was it probably 2020) and I think she got shido’ed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '24

Nvm, Rio 2016 final - she got waza-ari