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/Diamond1066 shodan Dec 18 '24

Cool idea, but risky. As is shown in the comments already, this could be interpreted different ways and refs aren't perfect either. If the ref does or doesn't see something it could be the difference between ippon and shido.

Looking at the throw about ten times, although this is cool it doesn't look like it's really all that needed. Tori had uke's leg locked up pretty good with his own leg, so the grab was mostly just for insurance. I feel that other arm could been put to better use taking a double handed grip on the sleeve and applying more kizushi.