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Step by step
The whole movement in words, so no part of it depends on watching a video. Described in the standard right-handed form.
Left-handed: these steps are written right-handed, as the syllabuses write them. Read every left as a right and every right as a left, and the throw is yours.
- You are on your back with your partner between your legs, one of their arms in and one arm out: trap their right arm inside as their head comes down.
- Swing your left leg over their right shoulder so the back of your knee crosses the back of their neck.
- Fold that leg and hook its shin behind the knee-pit of your right leg, the right leg folding down: the triangle is formed around their neck and trapped arm.
- Square your hips towards them and draw their trapped arm across their own neck, or their head gently down.
- Close gradually by squeezing the legs and drawing with the hands. Open the triangle completely the moment they tap, and let them up.
Receiving it
A leg crosses behind your neck, locks into the other, and your own trapped shoulder becomes part of the strangle: the pressure comes from the legs and builds smoothly. Posture up and free the trapped arm early if you can. Tap immediately and clearly the moment it is properly on; never hold out to prove toughness. Tell your instructor if you ever feel light-headed afterwards.
About this technique
The triangle strangle: uke's neck and one arm are enclosed in a triangle of tori's legs, one leg's knee-pit locking over the other's instep, the trapped shoulder completing the strangle. Strangles are restricted by age in most federations; learn and practise this only under instruction and supervision.
Key points
- The triangle encloses the neck AND one arm, never the neck alone
- Lock the knee-pit over the other instep and square the hips
- Close gradually with the legs and a draw of the head or arm
strangles
In combinations, counters and transitions
None recorded yet. Nobody has written down a counter to Sankaku-jime, or a combination it belongs to. You can suggest one.