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Where this technique is not allowed
Prohibited in competition: current IJF rules give a direct hansoku-make for lifting an opponent off the mat and forcing them back down without a judo technique, so the high lift has no legal finish in contest. It remains part of the Kodokan classification and is demonstrated with a controlled lowering.
Under contest rules
Direct hansoku-make. Lifting an opponent off the mat and forcing them back down without a judo technique is a direct hansoku-make, which leaves the high lift no legal finish in contest.
Sport and Organisation Rules of the International Judo Federation: refereeing rules, 2026 edition, Article 18.2.2.
Still taught, demonstrated and examined, so it is written up in full here. The restriction above is a contest rule, not a reason to skip it. See the prohibited techniques list.
About this technique
The high lift: with uke on their back, guarding between their legs, tori wraps the trunk, stands, and lifts them bodily from the mat. Neither the 1895 Gokyo nor the 1920 revision listed it; the Kodokan recognised it officially in 1982 as a koshi-waza, though the movement is far older and went by mochi-age, idaki-age and daki-otoshi in earlier days. In modern contest it has no legal ending, because driving a lifted opponent back to the mat is a serious offence, so the name is met in the rule book rather than on the scoreboard.
Key points
- Recognise it: uke is wrapped around the trunk and lifted bodily from the mat
- In contest there is no legal finish; forcing a lifted opponent back down without a technique is hansoku-make
- In practice a lifted partner is always lowered under control, never dropped
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Koshi-waza (hip techniques)
At a glance
, classification, Gokyo set, Kodokan number, contest rules, grades that require it
- What it is
- Nage-waza (throwing techniques), Koshi-waza (hip techniques).
- Contest rules
- Direct hansoku-make. Lifting an opponent off the mat and forcing them back down without a judo technique is a direct hansoku-make, which leaves the high lift no legal finish in contest.
- Required for
- Yodan (4th Dan) (United States Judo Federation)
In competition
, how often it scores at IJF level, and two contests where it worked
No score recorded in senior IJF competition between 2020 and 2026, across 73,099 contests. That is a fact about modern contest judo rather than a gap in the data: the technique is taught, examined and classified, and it does not score at this level.
In combinations, counters and transitions
, none recorded yet
None recorded yet. Nobody has written down a counter to Daki-age, or a combination it belongs to. You can suggest one.
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