Tomoe Nage Playbook: The Beat-by-Beat Entry Card, Pressure Invitations, Landing Grades, and the When-Not Checklist

Mat Manual companion guide to "How to Throw Tomoe Nage Without Landing Underneath." Print it. The article teaches why distance and pressure decide whether you throw your partner or become their landing mat. This book is the working playbook: the six-beat entry card, pressure invitation drills, foot placement fit-ins with floor markers, crash-mat progressions with landing grades, the yoko-tomoe-nage variant held in its own gated block, counter awareness, and low-volume session plans where every attempt's picture is logged.

Player: ______________________________ Club: ______________________________ Coach: ______________________________ Gate status (coach use): ☐ Not yet opened ☐ Fit-ins only ☐ Crash mat throws ☐ Percentage randori Date gate last reviewed: ______________

SAFETY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE — THIS THROW IS GATED ☐ Coach's gate first: sacrifice throws are opened per player, not per class enthusiasm. Your gate status is written at the top of this book, and it rules every part in it. ☐ Uke's forward fall and forward roll must be reliable at speed before uke receives a full tomoe-nage. No exceptions, no percentage version of this rule. ☐ Uke never posts a straight arm into the mat to stop the arc. That is the injury pattern of this throw family, and any posted arm in drilling stops the session for re-teaching. ☐ Space check before every drop: the area behind tori and along uke's flight path is clear of players, walls, and mat edges. The check is spoken in the first block ("clear behind"). ☐ Tori keeps grip control through the arc so uke is steered. A release before uke passes the pivot ends the set. ☐ Volume stays low by design. Tired drops are collapses, and uke pays for collapses. The dose caps in Part 17 are safety rules, not suggestions. ☐ Junior, school, and event rules may restrict sacrifice throws by age or grade. The rule in the room governs, always. ☐ The stop word ends any set instantly, from any player, including the receiving uke mid-drill.

Part 1: The Technique Card