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Originally Posted by Bjjexpertise@be
I've been watching the video and I can't seem to figure out where his reaping leg for the uchi mata is being placed. Is he reaping the opponent's inner thigh with his or is it going straight up under his hip/right next to his jewels?
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if you looked it up in a judo textbook it would be reaping the opponent's inner thigh just like you said (uchi mata means "inner thigh"). i throw my uchi mata thigh to thigh, but it is much more of a sweeping takedown the way i do it, i don't get nearly the kind of lift Karo, or any good judoka, gets.
uchi mata is a hard one to pin down. you could watch a hundred guys do it a hundred times and you'd probably come out more confused than you were to begin with. guys will contact the leg anywhere from up almost to the crotch almost down to the ankles. sometimes, like one of the ones Karo throws here, it doesn't even look like the leg touches and it's just a plain hip throw, or even like he's attacking the inside of the
opposite leg like a hane goshi.
anyway, to address the vid directly, the first one he executes is the easiest to see what he's doing. the back right side of his thigh contacts the inside of the other guy's thigh relatively high up, maybe 3/4's of the way. notice that Karo's leg is
not straight as it sweeps back, but straightens a little once his opponent's weight is up, which acts to kinda hitch him up even further onto Karo's hip, while at the same time Karo is turning into the throw. at that point, it's not much different from any hip throw.