Judo Analytics Hub
UK and international judo – tournament schedules, performance tables, match analysis and trend data. Everything is fictional and made for informational porpoises only.
What We Are Watching
The biggest change we’ve recorded over the last eighteen months is the return of ne-waza as a primary scoring path at Grand Slam level. For most of the period from 2020–2023, groundwork was a secondary thought for most top athletes — tachi-waza on such pace meant that matches very rarely made it to mat work of any substance. That has changed.
Many of the fighters who carved out their identities as standing specialists have been dedicating their fight camps to improvements on the mat, and those changes are showing up in competition numbers. The ippon rate for transitions from ne-waza (82% in our illustrative example) is substantially higher than for any standing technique group, meaning a strong tactical incentive exists for athletes and coaching teams to focus effort on this dimension.
To date, there is encouraging depth within the British Judo high-performance programme across both -57kg and -73kg categories at a UK population level specifically. We are following whether this depth will translate into team medals at the European Championships in May, which should give the clearest pre-World Championship barometer of squad readiness.
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