ARTICLE 4º - Gestures

The central referee will make gestures indicated below, according with the actions:

For all gestures made, the central referee will raise his hand indicating the athlete receiving the score with his armband in accordance with the athlete´s color.

• Take downs, sweeps and knee on the belly: The referee will raise his hand indicating the scoring athlete´s color and the score of two points.
• Passing the guard: The referee will raise his hand indicating the scoring athletes color and the score of three points.
• Front mount, back mount and back grab: The referee will raise his hand indicating the scoring athletes’ color and the score of four points.
• Penalties: The referee will turn his hands one over the other with both fists closed after signaling the color of the penalized competitor and give an advantage to the other fighter.
• Advantages: The referee signals advantages with arm extended sweeping outward on a horizontal plane level with the shoulder.
• For the interruption of the fight: The referee opens his arms together on a horizontal plane level with the shoulder.
• For interruption of time during the fight: The referee puts his hands one above the other forming a "T", signaling the timekeeper to stop the time.
• For disqualification: The referee lifts his arms and crosses them, after that, he points to the disqualified athlete.
• To take off a awarded point: The referee lifts the arm that he gave the point with and waves his hand.
• Stalling:
• To start one fight: