Osoto Otoshi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Osoto Otoshi is one of the preserved throwing techniques, Habukareta Waza, of Judo. It belonged to the fourth group, Yonkyo, of the 1895 Gokyo no Waza lists. It is categorized as a foot technique, Ashi-waza. A sweep in which a judoka wraps one arm across the chest of his/her opponent and sweeps the opponent's leg with his/her own leg to slam the other judoka to the mat back-first. Olympic judo silver-medalist Naoya Ogawa introduced this move to professional wrestling, where it can also be a lariat-legsweep combination to slam down opponent.