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  • It took nine minutes and 33 seconds for Geesink to win by kesa-gatame, a ground hold where one arm goes behind the opponent's neck and the other secures his arm.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • This was not surprising, considering that Neil is one surfboard-riding, juji gatame - slapping-on, muzzleloader-wielding kind of guy.

    The Pour 2009

  • This was not surprising, considering that Neil is one surfboard-riding, juji gatame - slapping-on, muzzleloader-wielding kind of guy.

    The Pour 2009

  • Ne-waza: Escape from Mune-gatame using a 'bridge and roll

    Planet Judo 2009

  • Nippostrongylus kendo kyu nisei kesa-gatame kyudo No keyaki linked verse nogaku kiaki mai noh kibei maiko nori kiku makimono norimon Kikuchi mama-san norito kikumon mamushi noshi kikyo mana notan ki-mon matsu nunchakus kimono matsuri oban kimono sleeve matsuyama, adj. obang kin mebos obe kiri medaka obi kirigami Meiji odori kirimon menuki ofuro kirin metake o-goshi koan miai oiran mikado ojime sub mikan Okayama, adj. kobang Mikimoto Okazaki kobe, adj.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

  • “[When I was young], I happened across a friend begin and end a fight immediately with the Aikido technique “waki gatame”.

    Martial arts sensei celebrates 35th anniversary 2007

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