r/judo • u/MasterofLinking 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?

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u/Tasty-Judgment-1538 shodan Dec 18 '24

In general it is legal to grab your own leg. However tori is also touching uke's leg in the process. So I'd say shido.

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u/MasterofLinking shodan Dec 18 '24

If Tori had clearly touched Ukes leg it, I would agree. I'm not 100% sure he does though.

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u/Tasty-Judgment-1538 shodan Dec 18 '24

Agree with you. But I'm pretty sure he did.

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u/MasterofLinking shodan Dec 18 '24

You are probably right. Imo you can even get away with giving shido if no contact is made, if one follows a teleological, that is the purpose, and not the exact word interpretation of the ban on grabbing below the belt.

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u/Tasty-Judgment-1538 shodan Dec 18 '24

With this I disagree. If he had done it clean, kudos to him.