Tawara-gaeshi

Tori leans over uke’s back with his upper body from the front, holds uke’s torso with both arms, and, while scooping his body up, drops down onto his back and throws uke backward.

Both sides raise their hands, enter the grappling space, and await an opportunity. At the moment of grappling, uke jumps inside tori’s chest and executes morote-gari. Tori responds by stepping back in the tsugi-ashi form, increasing the distance between them. He maintains his stability in the right defensive posture, presses down the back of uke’s head with the right hand, and uke’s right shoulder with the left hand, while stepping back so that uke leans forward as his balance breaks.

At that moment, tori covers uke’s back with his upper body, holds uke’s torso with both hands, scoops him up, then drops backward to throw him. The best opportunity to apply this technique is to adapt and continue at the moment uke jumps inside tori’s chest in a forward crouching posture. The key points are the response to uke’s morote-gari, by increasing the distance between them, and then making uke lean further forward so that his posture is unstable.

When uke jumps inside tori’s chest, if his head sticks out from tori’s armpit when he executes morote-gari, uke will have the superior strength, as the lower half of tori’s body will be unstable. Therefore, at the moment uke jumps in, tori should increase the distance between them while maintaining his stability, press uke’s head and back down with both hands, and draw uke’s head to his lower abdomen.