Everyone loves to see a fighter take down their opponent, especially with a sweep that sends them flying in the air.
The Super Sweep is one of my favorite martial art combat techniques.
I went in with a heavy round kick to the ribs and after my opponent backed up, I came in with my sweep.
The main point to understand is that sweeps can be very practical in combat and especially practical in sparring.
Even some of my instructors have fallen to these martial arts sweeping techniques.
This basic Judo throw is how I learned to perfect the Super Sweep it in its most basic form.
This isn’t the Super Sweep, but it is the first step to learn in order to master the Super Sweep or what we could call the flying Osoto Gari.
03 Now from this point you can either do a PULLING sweep or PUSHING sweep.
Now the sweep: 04 With the left leg planted on the ground and your hips close to your opponents, you can swing the right leg up in the air in front of you and then with power and speed, swing it back down chopping into your opponent’s right leg or both legs if possible.
05 As you sweep, either twist and turn the opponent back to help in taking them to the ground.
In self-defense class, we usually teach the student to hold onto the wrist only and follow up with some stomping and kicking to the head. Once you have learned the basic sweep, it will be time to practice the advanced sweep.
For this to work, we want to add two keep components to our foundational sweep: 01 Set up the opponent 02 Move in fast for the sweep The first part is simple if your opponent already has a reaction to your movements.
If you fake a forward movement, will they lift their knee to block? If yes, this will set you up perfectly to sweep the ground leg.
You don’t need them on one leg for this sweep to work, but you will want them off balance or on one leg.
If they move back after a fake attack, this might be enough to get them off balance and then you can shuffle jump forward and apply the sweep.
You do the same Osoto Gari sweep as described above, only you will do it all in one fluid motion and you will not be swinging the leg forward and down for the chop.
Instead, you will be using your momentum and creating a lower sweeping motion closer to the ground to attack more with your heel.
Here are a few more tips: 01- You must be committed to the sweep and the attack 02- If you hesitate, your opponent will be able to stop the motion or avoid it 03- Be sure to break up the opponent first or they will see the sweep a mile away 04- Practice the clothesline push to help with getting the opponent off balance 05- Master attacking hard with the heel and often even knocking your opponents heel forward 06- Develop a light on the feet way to close the distance between you and the opponent Although this sweep is easier to take an opponent down onto their back, it is possible to sweep people so that they land on their front too.
Once you do sweep your opponent, they are now vulnerable to a hard kick to the head or a ground / grappling attack.
Depending on how you sweep your opponent, this move will usually knock the air out of them too.
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