What wins in my category
Every technique that scored in International Judo Federation competition between 2020 and 2026, for the category you choose. Drawn from 73,099 contests across 313 competitions.
This counts scores, not attempts. A technique everybody attacks and nobody lands does not appear here. The IJF's data records what scored, so that is what this can honestly show.
Choose a category to load its data.
In golden score is the share of a technique's scores that came after regular time, against 13% across all senior competition. Read it as tactics with a caveat: golden score ends the moment anything scores, so a technique that takes time to mature is under-represented there whatever its merits. The two counters at the top of this measure, o-soto-gaeshi and o-uchi-gaeshi, are the clearer reading: golden score is when people over-commit.
“On your syllabus” reads the techniques you have ticked as learned, which live in your browser and are never sent anywhere. Tick them on a technique page or on your progress page.
Looking for a particular athlete's record? Judostats breaks the same IJF data down by judoka. This reference deliberately does not: it stores no competitor profile data, and the contests it links to are chosen by the occasion rather than by who competed in them.
How this is counted
It counts scores, not attempts. A technique everybody attacks and nobody lands does not appear at all, so read it as what finishes rather than as what is tried. It is also senior competition only: the IJF's feed carries no age-group results, which is a limit of the source and not a choice.
Every figure is shown with the number of contests behind it and how many of those the IJF actually tagged, because a confident-looking ranking drawn from nine contests is the one way this page could mislead. Where a technique has too few scores to support a percentage, the page says “too few” instead of printing one, and those sort to the bottom rather than pretending to be zero.
The five filters narrow the table and none of them touch your stored division. That is set once on My progress, and this page reads it only to open on the right one: looking at somebody else's for a minute is not a claim to compete in it. Choosing a year narrows the contest count with it, so the numbers always describe the set in front of you.
Every column sorts, one at a time, and the same column again reverses it. The order changes and nothing else does: the # column keeps the ranking each technique was given, so a table sorted by ippon still shows which technique is first by frequency, and a filtered table shows its place in the whole division underneath.
Which two contests a row shows
Each row opens on up to two real contests where that technique scored in that division. A YouTube clip starts a few seconds before the throw, worked out from where the contest sits in the recording, the wall clock of the score, and the IJF's own lead-in. Newer footage sits on the IJF's own player and needs a subscription: that is the IJF's to ask for and not ours, and the page says so on the clip.
Which two, out of every scoring event on record, is decided in this order, and each rule only settles what the one above it left level:
- Can you watch it. A free clip beats one behind the IJF's subscription even when it is older, because a clip you cannot open demonstrates nothing. This is the rule that decides most pairs, and it is a judgement about readers rather than about judo.
- Ippon, then waza-ari, then yuko. The cleanest version of the technique.
- The occasion. Olympics, then world championships, masters, IJF tour, continental, continental open.
- How deep in the draw. Final, then bronze, semi-final, quarter-final, repechage, preliminary.
- The most recent.
Two consequences worth knowing. Because the first rule outranks the third and fourth, most clips are preliminary rounds rather than finals: the tour publishes far more preliminaries, and the free ones win. And clips are gathered from further back than the statistics are counted, so a clip may come from a year no number here includes.
Footage follows the division only. The year and score filters deliberately do not narrow it, because there are at most two clips per technique per division and filtering them alongside the statistics would empty the panel exactly when you had got specific enough to want it.