Originally Posted by
Chris Herzog
I'm not sure why you made the compairson at all, they aren't even remotely similar. They have nothing in common other than the term "reap". As to date Judo has zero recorded deaths in competiton, the potential for someone to hit their head is defiantly there, however thats why ukemi waza (break falls) are taught the first day of practice. It is ironic the reaping from bjj is actually in the Judo kata Katame-no-kata which was my first exposure to reaping the knee and when I started playing with it back in 1993.
The photo is harai-goshi (sweeping hip throw), and yes, you don't want to take that throw ;)