Foot Sweep Only
Mat mode
1:30
Tell the roomScore with a clean foot sweep only.
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BOTH PLAYERS
TOP PLAYER and BOTTOM PLAYER share these rules.
POSITION
Standing over-under clinch with hip contact. Symmetric with the other player.
OBJECTIVE
Score with a clean foot sweep only.
CONSTRAINTS
No takedowns or shots (no level change to single, double, or fireman’s). No high-amplitude throws (no osoto finished as a reap, no hip throws, no uchi-mata, no body-lock takedowns). Trips and reaps that need a meaningful body load (osoto proper, tani-otoshi) are out — only sweeps where the foot is the primary mechanical action. Pummeling and upper-body kuzushi to load a foot are allowed. Reset on a clean sweep, on both players hitting the mat without a clean sweep, or after 15 seconds of stalemate. Default round length 1:30.
WIN CONDITION
Land a foot sweep (kosoto, kouchi, de-ashi, ouchi as a foot-sweep variant, or any sweep whose primary action is the attacker’s foot removing the partner’s foot) that flattens the partner (back, side, or hip on the mat). Source scores one point per clean sweep; play to three points per side.
BOTTOM PLAYER
POSITION
Same over-under clinch start. Symmetric game.
OBJECTIVE
Score with a clean foot sweep only.
CONSTRAINTS
Same no-takedown, no-high-amplitude, foot-primary, and reset rules as the other player.
WIN CONDITION
Land a foot sweep (kosoto, kouchi, de-ashi, ouchi as a foot-sweep variant, or any sweep whose primary action is the attacker’s foot removing the partner’s foot) that flattens the partner (back, side, or hip on the mat). Source scores one point per clean sweep; play to three points per side.
In competition
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Original positional game. Foot Sweep Only — Constrained Standing Game. GAME-STD-FOOT-SWEEP-ONLY.
Problem
Standing over-under clinch with hip contact.
Tell the room
Score with a clean foot sweep only. Land a foot sweep (kosoto, kouchi, de-ashi, ouchi as a foot-sweep variant, or any sweep whose primary action is the attacker’s foot removing the partner’s foot) that flattens the partner (back, side, or hip on the mat).
Setup
Standing over-under clinch with hip contact. Symmetric with the other player. Same over-under clinch start. Symmetric game.
Score
Land a foot sweep (kosoto, kouchi, de-ashi, ouchi as a foot-sweep variant, or any sweep whose primary action is the attacker’s foot removing the partner’s foot) that flattens the partner (back, side, or hip on the mat). Source scores one point per clean sweep; play to three points per side.
Rules
- No takedowns or shots (no level change to single, double, or fireman’s).
- No high-amplitude throws (no osoto finished as a reap, no hip throws, no uchi-mata, no body-lock takedowns).
- Trips and reaps that need a meaningful body load (osoto proper, tani-otoshi) are out — only sweeps where the foot is the primary mechanical action.
- Pummeling and upper-body kuzushi to load a foot are allowed.
- Reset on a clean sweep, on both players hitting the mat without a clean sweep, or after 15 seconds of stalemate.
- Default round length 1:30.
- Same no-takedown, no-high-amplitude, foot-primary, and reset rules as the other player.
Progressions
Harder constraint variants from the source. Same game, tighter problem.
- Add a single-foot constraint per round — round 1: only the partner’s right foot is a target; round 2: only the partner’s left foot. Forces angle and timing variations the unconstrained game does not produce.
- Combine with the Collar Tie Battle game by allowing collar-tie wins to set up sweeps. The combined game develops the inside-hand-to-foot-sweep chain explicitly.
- Add the snap-down as an additional win condition. The snap-and-the-foot-sweep are mechanically related (both extract the loaded foot from underneath the partner) and the combined game trains the relationship.
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