I like the analogy of toribash being like learning to talk. I didn't really start progressing in toribash technically until I became a black belt, before then it was always "lift, snapkick, counter-shovel" I won a lot with those moves, but once I stepped into deep water, AKA the public servers, I realized that what I had been doing wasn't going to work anymore. Having been doing judo for some years at that point, I decided to try an translate some of those throws into Toribash the best I could. Translations took a lot of trial and error, because I was alone and didn't know about TA at the time, but once I figured out how to do a shitty hip throw, my techniques got better rapidly.
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This is the first judo throw I ever successfully recreated