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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.
- From a right-handed grip, pull their right sleeve strongly forward and release your own lapel grip.
- Pivot in as for a shoulder throw, but swing your free right arm under their right armpit, wrapping their upper arm so it lies over your right shoulder, your elbow bent and pointing down.
- Finish the turn with both knees well bent, your hips below theirs, their chest tight against your back, both of your hands now controlling that one arm.
- Straighten your legs and bow sharply forward, steering the wrapped arm past your right side.
- They ride over your shoulder and land on their back in front of you; keep hold of the arm so the landing is supported.
Receiving it
Your arm is drawn over their shoulder and clamped, and their back arrives under your chest; the throw is quick once the legs drive. You will rotate over their right shoulder holding nothing, so tuck your chin, let the trapped arm support you, and slap with your free left arm as your back lands.
VI judo notes
Releasing the lapel costs you a source of information, so replace it at once: swing your arm under their armpit by sliding it up their sleeve arm, not by reaching into space. The checkpoint before you throw is their chest against your back across its whole width; if you can only feel them at your shoulder, your hips are not yet under theirs.
About this technique
The one-armed shoulder throw: instead of keeping the lapel grip, tori wraps uke's right arm over the shoulder and throws with that single trapped arm. Recognised by the Kodokan alongside the classical seoi-nage.
Key points
- Trap their whole arm over your shoulder, their armpit on your shoulder
- Knees bent, hips below theirs, back glued to their chest
- Throw by straightening the legs and bowing, never by pulling the arm alone
Te-waza (hand techniques)
In combinations, counters and transitions
- transitionIppon-seoi-nage into Kami-shiho-gatame
- combinationIppon-seoi-nage into Kata-guruma
- combinationIppon-seoi-nage into Ko-uchi-gake
- combinationIppon-seoi-nage into Ko-uchi-gari
- combinationIppon-seoi-nage into Seoi-otoshi
- combinationIppon-seoi-nage into Tani-otoshi
- combinationIppon-seoi-nage into Uchi-makikomi
- combinationKo-uchi-gari into Ippon-seoi-nage
- combinationO-uchi-gari into Ippon-seoi-nage
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