SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 19 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 14 of 100

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Which of the following statements about Judo techniques and rules is correct?

(a)Shime-Waza are arm locks targeting the elbows.
(b)A Judo match ends immediately if a player scores an Ippon or receives a Hansoku-make.
(c)Judoka can strike and kick but cannot attack joints other than elbows.
(d)Hansoku-make is a minor penalty in Judo.

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Ippon is the full point in judo, and it ends the contest at once.

Hansoku-make, literally 'foul-play defeat', is disqualification. It also ends the contest, and the win goes to the opponent.

Both events in the statement stop a match immediately → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Shime-Waza are arm locks targeting the elbows. — Shime-waza are strangles, techniques that force a submission by choking. The joint locks, limited in contest judo to the elbow, are kansetsu-waza.
(c)
Judoka can strike and kick but cannot attack joints other than elbows. — Strikes and kicks (atemi-waza) are not allowed outside kata, so a judoka cannot strike in a contest. The elbow-only limit on joint locks is true, but the first half sinks it.
(d)
Hansoku-make is a minor penalty in Judo. — Hansoku-make is disqualification, the heaviest penalty in judo. The minor penalty is shido, and repeated shido can themselves add up to hansoku-make.

Concept

Judo, the 'gentle way', was created by Jigoro Kano in Japan in 1882. Its contest techniques fall into nage-waza (throws) and katame-waza (grappling).

Katame-waza splits three ways: osaekomi-waza (hold-downs), shime-waza (strangles) and kansetsu-waza (joint locks). In competition, a joint lock may be applied only to the elbow.

Penalties come in two grades: shido for minor infringements, hansoku-make for disqualification.

Ippon does not come only from a throw. A player who taps out, or says 'maitta' (I give up), to a hold-down, strangle or elbow lock concedes ippon.

Key facts

Ippon, the full point, ends a judo contest immediately.
Hansoku-make is disqualification, and the contest is awarded to the opponent.
Katame-waza covers hold-downs (osaekomi-waza), strangles (shime-waza) and joint locks (kansetsu-waza).
In contest judo, joint locks may be applied only to the elbow.

Study next

Judo scores: ippon, waza-ari and yukoIJF penalties: shido and direct hansoku-makeJudo contest area and the blue and white judogi

Common traps

Reading hansoku-make as a warning because it is a penalty: it is disqualification, not a caution.
Filing shime-waza under joint locks: shime means strangle, and the elbow locks are kansetsu-waza.

Judo rules are also asked at 18 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.8, on the competition area and the order in which contestants are called, and judo's origin at 12 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.4, which keys Jigoro Kano and 1882.

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