Several months ago, Chad Morrison of Akari Dojo in Richmond Virginia showed me a cool takedown from a failed uchimata. We had a hard time figuring out what it was because the motion initially seems pretty alien to judo, but I finally figured out that it was a variant of the Granby roll. At that time I couldn't find a good video but now I have. Imagine that done from standing after an uchimata. Enjoy...
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