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    Kumi-kata · gripping

    Breaking a mid-lapel grip

    A lapel grip at chest height sets your posture, so it goes before you attack. Stripping it down with two hands works but leaves you with nothing, and that is a shido; the push-pull keeps a grip, pushing their lapel hand down while pulling their sleeve, so the hand comes off and your attack is already moving.

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    Key points

    • Push their lapel hand down while pulling their sleeve: the two together
    • Keep at least one grip; a two-hand strip that keeps none is a shido
    • The break is the start of the throw, not a pause

    Step by step

    1. Take your partner's sleeve with your pulling hand and hold it.
    2. Put your other hand over the wrist of their lapel hand and push it straight down as you pull the sleeve towards your hip.
    3. As their hand leaves the lapel, take that lapel yourself and turn in.

    From the other side

    A hand on your wrist pushing down while your sleeve is pulled is the push-pull, and your lapel grip is about to go. Let it go rather than be bent forward with it, and retake lower.

    VI judo notes

    The push on your wrist and the pull on your sleeve arrive together, and the direction of the pull says which way the throw is coming. Release, straighten, re-grip.

    The techniques involved

    The grip-sets involved

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