Sweep-to-Score System

Mat Manual companion guide to "The Sweep That Throws the Punch." Print it. The article teaches the chain: ashi barai (foot sweep) to gyaku zuki (reverse punch), spent in the beat while the opponent rescues their base. This book builds the whole sweep family into chain-openers, card by card, and then counts what actually matters in free kumite: not just the points you landed, but the chains you started.

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BEFORE ANYTHING: SCOPE AND SAFETY — PASS/FAIL ☐ Sweep the foot, not the ankle or knee. Contact is made with the sole or inside edge of your foot against your partner's foot, low and along the floor. Contact at the ankle, shin, or knee fails the rep, fails the set, and stops the drill for a reset. There is no harder version of this rule for senior students. ☐ A partner falls only where ukemi is trained. Sweeps in this book are drilled on a matted surface, and any drill that can put a partner on the floor runs only with partners who have passed the ukemi (falling technique) gate in Part 11. No gate, no falling drills. The partner steps out and recovers instead, and the chain is scored on the recovery, not the fall. ☐ No sweeping the supporting leg at full speed for beginners. A sweep against the leg a partner is standing on is never a beginner drill and never a full-speed surprise. It appears in this book only at the gated stage in Part 7, at agreed speed, with an instructor present. Failing to hold that line ends sweep work for the day. ☐ All partner work runs at agreed speed and agreed contact, stated out loud before each drill. Either partner can lower the speed or stop the drill with one word, and the drill obeys instantly. ☐ The punch after the sweep is thrown at a real target line at controlled contact, under your dojo's rules for your grade. A chain scored with an uncontrolled punch is scored as no chain. ☐ This is an intermediate book. Students train it with working gyaku zuki, a foundation in free kumite (sparring), and their instructor's knowledge.

Part 1: The Sweep Family, as Chain-Openers

Every member of the family does the same job: it moves a foot, buys one beat of the opponent's recovery, and hands that beat to gyaku zuki. What changes is which foot, at which moment, from which distance.

Family law: a sweep is on your menu only when you have passed its stage standard with it (Part 4). In free rounds you start chains with the menu you own, not the menu you have read about.

A note on names: schools name these differently, and some teach all of them under ashi barai with the timing described in words. The names in this book follow the common usage above. Pencil in your school's names where they differ. The timings do not change with the labels.