Manny
Senior Master
What are the top five techs the judokas in olimpics are using?
Manny
Manny
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I basically only watched the medal matches, but the thing to remember with Judoka is that they commonly have what are referred to as "tokui waza", or favoured techniques. In other words, within Judo, which is a specialist system in and of itself, you get specialists in Osoto Gake, or Seionage, and so on. Then you get the influence of the rules, with certain throws being removed from competition, and you end up with individual practitioners choosing preferred techniques, which might be shared between other competitors, or might not. Overall, though, I saw a fair cross-section, a fair amount of attempted sweeps (kosoto gari, kouchi gari etc), a lot of attempted seionage in various forms, and only occasional attempts at osoto actions. I don't know that anything stood out as the "top five", though, as it changed from men to women competitors, as well as by weight category.