Titan Judo

Kosei Inoue’s Top Tips: #3

Use your strengths to your advantage

Inoue’s Uchimata and Ouchi gari are feared so much by his opponents that, even if not throwing with the particular technique concerned, he is still able to get them to work to his advantage. For example, when fighting those who are weary of his Uchimata, Inoue uses his Ouchi gari to sucker his opponents in for it.

Likewise when, fighting an opponent who tries to narrow the angle for Uchimata by standing in an extreme right stance, Inoue recognises that they are leaving themselves open for techniques like Osoto gari and Harai goshi and takes advantage of this. Even if not throwing with a favoured technique, Inoue’s judo shows that a player’s Tokui waza can still be used to their advantage, simply by exploiting an opponent’s fear of it.

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