Tomoe Nage Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

Tomoe Nage is one of the throws of Judo, developed by Jigaro Kano a little more than 100 years ago. It is also named "The Circle Throw" or "Flying Japanese".
It is a sort of "sacrifice" throw, because tori is on his back throwing uke. Going for it this can be a very effectful throw against any size of opponent.

I put my camera on continuous shooting and took my friend around this throw. Afterwards, I combined the photographs in PhotoShop only giving full opacity to the beginning and uke at the end of the act.

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sothealaw (160) 2006-12-28 18:36

Great shot. The picture looks moving. Great sharpness too. Well done.

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mezz (249) 2006-12-28 19:13

Great shot, I like the sense of movement in this picture, and the men have some very interesting postures. I also like the simple (and very Japanese) colour scheme. TFS.

Jeppe (18624) 2007-02-05 16:15

Hi Jan
Ups I missed a lot lately :-)
A great way to present this flying Japanese - very instructive as well - I like to try something like this soon (NOT the throw ;-)

vis ses
Jeppe