O-goshi

Tori breaks Uke’s balance straight forward or towards the right (or left) front corner. He holds Uke on the back of his waist with his right (left) arm inserted through Uke’s left (right) armpit, then pulls him up and throws him down. This section covers similar techniques.

O-Goshi – Holding the Back of Uke’s Waist: Tori and Uke grapple in a right natural posture. While stepping back with his right foot, then the left foot, Tori begins to pull Uke forward to break his balance. At this moment, Tori assumes a right defensive posture and presses Uke’s upper body downwards with both hands. Uke is pulled and steps forward with his left foot, then the right foot, and holds his ground. He resists being pulled, straightens up, and begins to step back with his right foot to return to his original stable posture.

At this moment, Tori steps his right foot inside Uke’s right foot and assumes a right han-mi posture while lessening the pulling action of both hands. He pushes slightly so that Uke straightens up and begins to step back with his right foot. At the moment his right foot passes behind his left foot, Tori changes the action of both hands to lift and pull Uke forward and up while stepping his right foot inside the tip of Uke’s right foot. Consequently, Uke cannot balance his weight on his right foot and he rises onto his tiptoes in an unstable left posture, his balance breaking.

At this moment, bending both knees and lowering his hips, Tori pivots on his right foot, opens his body to the left, and steps his left foot back and round inside Uke’s left foot. At the same time, he releases his right grip from Uke’s left collar, inserts his right hand through Uke’s left armpit with his right shoulder lowered, and puts his arm completely around the back of Uke’s waist (up to the side of his right hip) to hold him. Tori pulls with the left hand to load Uke’s upper body onto the back of Tori’s waist.

Tori throws Uke by straightening both knees, raising his hips, and pulling him up, so that Uke is thrown in a large circle over Tori’s waist and falls in front of him.

At the moment uke’s right foot passes the back of his left foot, tori changes the action of both hands to raise uke forward and upwards, causing uke’s balance to break forward as he cannot support his weight on his right foot after stepping it back. Understanding and timing the positioning for the throw, or tsukuri, is very important.

When uke moves his right foot back, tori should step in with his right foot, driving uke’s foot back. Tori then turns and faces the other way by moving his left foot and maneuvering his body, and pulls uke’s body tight against him with the right arm holding the back of his waist. At this moment, tori lowers his hips and holds the back of uke’s waist deeply with his right arm over the back of uke’s belt. Then, he straightens both knees and, pulling uke’s body up, throws him down.

In the following technique, which is not classified under o-goshi, tori grips uke’s belt on the back of his waist with the right hand and, lifting him up, loads uke onto the back of his waist and throws him down. This technique is tsuri-goshi. Tori catches hold of uke’s back from over his right shoulder (or right arm) and, lifting him up, loads him onto the back of his waist and throws him. This technique is tsurikomi-goshi.