Aaron Wolf armed with Belt-Grip Ouchi

Talk about unorthodox techniques! Aaron Wolf might have been retired but he has one of the most unusual forms of ouchi-gari which he does under a specific circumstance. Let’s do the breakdown:

Sometimes uke is determined not to let you get a grip.

At times like this, you can take a belt grip instead of a sleeve grip. It’s not very intuitive but it works really well. You will see…

It’s fine to have a traditional lapel grip but a cross-grip is even better.

When you feign a forward throw off your cross-grip and belt grip, uke reacts by pulling backwards.

This is an ideal time to do ouchi-gari.

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