How to use this site

Waza Book is a reference rather than a course. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing has to be read in order, so this page is a map rather than a manual: what you can do, one line each. Follow a link for further details.

• Look up any technique. Every throw, hold, strangle and armlock, written out step by step: Techniques, A to Z, or by picture. Skills covers the rest, from breakfalls to grips.
• Say what grade you are. Set it once on My progress and the whole site follows: your syllabus first, the rest are hidden. The example below shows it being done.
• Search in any spelling. osoto, o soto gari and 大外刈 all reach the same page through Search. A word you heard on the mat is in the glossary.
• Tick what you have learned. Counts and still-to-learn lists follow it. Ticks stay in your own browser, and the Privacy page has all the details. The intention is this site can be used by the youngest judoka through to the oldest judoka.
• Log what you actually trained. A tick says you can do something; the training diary says when you last did it, and whether the season went where you meant it to.
• Name a throw you saw. What was that technique? asks a few plain questions and ranks the likely names. Or start from the situation instead.
• See what actually scores. What wins lists every technique that scored in your division in IJF contest, with real contests to watch.
• Get the names solid before a grading. Flashcard decks for Anki, one card per technique, built for each grade and for each exam.
• Read it with no signal. Every page you open is kept on the device. The competition-day card is there from your first visit, opened or not.
• Read it your way. Screen reader, braille, plain text, the names said aloud, light or dark: Accessibility says what each is actually like here.
• Choose who demonstrates. Put the organisations in your own order on Video providers. Nothing ever plays on its own.
• Set your club up in one link. Club links builds an address, and a QR code to print, that sets your members up the way you teach and can carry this term's work as a checklist.
• Load it into your own assistant. The whole reference as one file, with the caveats that matter.
• Tell us something is wrong. Where these pages disagree with your coach, your coach wins, and we would like to know.

The rest of the reference: grades and their syllabuses, kata, examination papers, the rules of competition, prohibited techniques, and the combinations, counters, transitions and chains that join one technique to the next.