While people tend to think about judo mainly in terms of massive hip and shoulder throws, the sweeps, reaps and trips that make up ashi-waza (leg techniques) are in a lot of ways the core of the art ...

Chelsie Giles won Olympic bronze at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 Judo made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games in 1964. The men's competition has been a part of every Games since 1972, while the ...

When did judo become an Olympic sport? The art of judo derives from the ancient Japanese martial art of jiu-jitsu. The credit for the formal founding of Judo, which means “the gentle way,” goes to Dr.

As I noted in our previous Lyoto Machida Judo Chop, if you take a brief survey of the Bloody Elbow Technique section, you’ll see we’ve spent a lot of time discussing Machida. We’ve talked about his ...

The 2024 Olympics will continue the tradition of including combat sports, but there is one sport that has been put on the chopping block this time around. A competitor wins a judo match by throwing ...

Hi, I'm Neil Adams MBE, former Olympic and World Championship medallist and now coach to the GB squad. And this is my judo guide.