Maki-komi Nage
巻き込み投げ
Literally: wrapping-in throw
A winding throw that Ashihara Karate uses to end the defense against a roundhouse kick to the midsection.
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Maki-komi nage, literally winding throw, belongs among the throws (nage waza) of Japanese Ashihara Karate. The school's English materials call it the forward rotational throw. In the school's forms it appears almost always as the conclusion of the defense against a roundhouse kick to the midsection (chudan mawashi geri). The defender first stops the kick with a double cover of elbow and knee or shin, steps into one of the numbered positions off the line of attack, performs mawashi uke with the arms and often also strikes with the knee. Only then does he wind the attacker around himself and throw him. In Nage no Kata the throw is performed with a 360-degree turn, in Kihon no Kata the defender ends up facing backward. The same pattern repeats in Shoshinsha no Kata, Kumite no Kata and Jissen no Kata, so practitioners encounter it already in the beginner's form. The technique follows the principle of sabaki: the attacker's force is not stopped head-on but used to take the attacker off balance.