Alias · Sweeps
Inside trip
Also known as Kouchi Gari — the canonical term used on this site.
Training background: common colloquial name
Inside trip as kouchi gari, the inner reap
Inside trip, in this sense, names kouchi gari — the inner reap that hooks inside the near ankle and reaps backward.
Etymology. “Inside trip” describes tripping the opponent’s leg from the inside; here it routes to kouchi gari, disambiguated from the standing inside-trip page. “Kouchi gari” is the judo term for the small inner reap.
Mechanics. The reap removes the opponent’s near leg as a support to destabilise them, and it depends on controlling that leg at the moment its weight is on it: hooking inside the ankle and reaping backward while the opponent’s weight loads the reaped leg leaves them nothing to stand on, so they fall backward over the swept foot.
Cross-reference. Full mechanical coverage on Kouchi Gari.