BONUS
Interesting little Kashiwazaki side-note from the book: Uchimata by Hiroshi Sugai (Ippon Masterclass series)
In the semi-finals of the 65kg category in the 1981 world championships, Katsuhiko Kashiwasaki faced one of his main rivals, East Germany's Torsten Reissman, a known left-handed uchimata specialist. After about three minutes, Kashiwakai scored koka with a small footsweep, and they both rolled out of the area in the process. He reported afterwords how he happened to see Reissman's eyes as he got up "He was obviously furious to be caught like that, and I just felt that he would now attack with uchimata". As soon as they took grip, Reismann came streaming in for left uchimata as predicted. Kashiwazaki had his optimum grip and stance, neatly sidestepped the attacking leg, and countered the German with a perfect uchimata sukashi for ippon. He went on to win the title.
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