Kansetsu-Waza Reference

Mat Manual companion guide to "Armlocks: Judo's Kansetsu-Waza, Taught Carefully." Print it. The article teaches the family's order: recognition, control of the arm, pressure last, and the tap as the technique's completion. This book is the working reference, mirroring the Shime-Waza Reference deliberately: the mechanism and the tap contract first, defence before any finish, a card for each family member with its control standard printed ahead of its pressure standard, entries from pins and turnovers, and waki-gatame's standing form fenced as knowledge only.

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BEFORE ANYTHING: THE RULES THAT GOVERN EVERY PAGE AFTER THIS ONE ☐ Kansetsu-waza targets the elbow only. Any version drifting toward the shoulder, wrist, or another joint is stopped and rebuilt. It is not a variation. ☐ CONTROL BEFORE PRESSURE, PASS/FAIL. No pressure is applied to an arm that has not first been isolated and controlled to the card's standard. A finish chased without control is a failed rep and stops the set. ☐ TAP EARLY IS PASS/FAIL. The receiver taps at the first honest certainty the lock is set and the arm cannot be recovered. The applier releases in the motion the tap is felt. A hurried tap means the applier built pressure too fast. ☐ Pressure is built in degrees a tap can beat. Nothing in this book is snapped straight, yanked, or finished in a rush to beat an escape. ☐ The gates run in order: recognition and defence, tap fluency, controlled application, randori. Nobody applies a lock in a later gate who has not passed the earlier ones, in both roles. ☐ Waki-gatame's standing application is knowledge only in this book. It is never drilled and never finished. Its controlled ground form is the only version carded. ☐ Any elbow pain that lingers, numbness, tingling, or loss of strength is reported to the instructor the same day. Elbows are pass/fail. ☐ The stop signal ends any drill instantly, from any player in the room, including a watcher who sees pressure building on an uncontrolled arm.

Part 1: How This Reference Is Used

Read the parts in order the first time. The order is the curriculum: mechanism and contract (Parts 2 and 3), recognition (Part 4), defence (Parts 5 to 7), tap fluency (Part 8), the gate ladder (Part 9), then the five cards (Parts 10 to 14), entries (Part 15), defence by technique (Part 16), controlled application (Part 17), and randori (Part 18). Partner standards, logs, faults, and assessment close the book. Do not start at the cards.