Do-jime

胴絞 · trunk squeeze

Also known as body scissors (English)

Why this technique is banned

Prohibited act under competition rules: squeezing the trunk with crossed legs (scissoring the body) is penalised with hansoku-make. Unlike most banned techniques it has no legitimate contest history to preserve; it is listed so it can be recognised and stopped.

Documented for recognition and history; deliberately without a step-by-step. See the prohibited techniques list.

Demonstrations

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About this technique

Squeezing the opponent's trunk between the legs, ankles crossed around the body. Judo classifies it among the strangles but bans it outright: compressing the trunk this way can injure ribs and organs, and it wins nothing. Documented for recognition only.

Key points

  1. Recognise it: legs wrapped around the trunk with the ankles crossed, squeezing
  2. Prohibited in competition and in randori alike
  3. If you feel it applied in practice, tap at once and say so; it should simply not be used

strangles