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    Koshi-guruma

    腰車 · こしぐるま · hip wheel · said KOH-shee goo-ROO-mah

    Also known as headlock throw (wrestling)

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    About this technique

    A hip throw with the arm around uke's neck: uke is wheeled over a deeply-entered hip.

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    A technique to rotate the opponent on the axis of the hip and throw him down by breaking his balance forward and holding his neck in the right arm while thrusting the hip deeply.
    The Kodokan's definition

    Key points

    1. The arm goes around the neck and pulls uke tight on
    2. Enter deep: hips right across uke's front
    3. Wheel uke around the hip rather than lifting straight up

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    Koshi-waza (hip techniques) · Gokyo 2nd set

    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).
    Gokyo
    2nd set (Dai-nikyo).
    Kodokan number
    203 (KOG).
    Contest rules
    No rule singles it out.
    Also written
    Goshi-guruma.
    Required for

    Step by step

    These steps describe the standard right-handed form without relying on the video.

    1. From a right-handed grip, release the lapel and wrap your right arm around the back of your partner's neck, hand reaching towards their far shoulder.
    2. Step your right foot inside their right foot, pivot, and swing your left foot around so your back turns into them, knees bent.
    3. Bring your hips right across their front, further through than a basic hip throw, so their body lies across your lower back.
    4. Pull the sleeve and hug the neck so their upper body is locked to you.
    5. Straighten your legs and rotate: their body wheels around your hips like a wheel on an axle.
    6. They land on their back in front of you. Ease the neck arm free as they fall and keep the sleeve for their landing.

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    Receiving it

    An arm wraps around your neck and draws your head and chest onto their back as their hips come across you; you are wheeled over rather than lifted. The rotation is close and controlled. Keep your neck relaxed rather than braced, ride the turn, and land on your back with your left arm slapping.

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    VI judo notes

    Releasing the lapel to wrap the neck is a real loss of information, so make the swap along their body, running your arm up their chest and around the neck rather than over the top. Once it is there the neck wrap tells you more than the lapel ever did, and their whole upper body is readable through it. Ease the arm free as they land.

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    Named variations

    Kubi-nage

    Also called: neck throw.

    The neck throw of club practice: the arm wraps the neck exactly as here, but the hips stay shallow and the throw runs over the hip corner rather than the full hip line. Widely taught as a first throw under its own name; the classification records it as koshi-guruma.

    In competition

    , how often it scores at IJF level, and two contests where it worked

    Senior IJF competition, 2020 to 2026, from 73,099 contests. Counts scores, not attempts.

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