Judo For The World

Perfect Timing. Clean Ippon. 🥋🔥

Takeshi Takeoka shows exactly why timing matters at the highest level of judo.

He keeps Orlando Polanco upright, controls the arm, breaks the balance forward, then suddenly changes level and drops deep underneath the center of gravity. The key is not strength — it is kuzushi, rotation, speed, and precise ex*****on.

A beautiful seoi-otoshi finished with complete control.

What impressed you most: the timing, the level change, or the rotation?

Technical analysis by Yerdos Khamzin.

🥋🐻 When your opponent is a little stronger than expected…

No excuses. No fear.
Step onto the tatami and fight. 😄

Who wins this match — the judoka or the bear?

A STAR IS BORN 🇯🇵🥋

Genki Fujinaka produced an incredible performance at the 2026 Cadet World Championships.

Five fights.
Five ippons.
Five different finishing techniques.

And in the −73 kg final, he punished the very first attack with a spectacular Ura-nage for ippon. 🔥

This is more than power — it is timing, reaction and technical variety.

Do you think we are watching a future senior world champion?

Technical analysis by Yerdos Khamzin

O-uchi-gari is much more than a leg attack. 🥋

Watch how the kuzushi loads the opponent’s leg before the attack begins. A deep entry, close body contact, strong upper-body control, and continuous forward pressure leave almost no chance to recover.

The leg finishes the technique — but the whole body creates the throw.

What do you think was the key here: kuzushi, timing, or pressure?

Technical analysis by Yerdos Khamzin

Tasoev vs Tushishvili 🔥 Heavyweight judo at the highest level.

Look closely at Tasoev’s timing. He absorbs the forward pressure, controls the body, lowers his center and explodes into the lift at exactly the right moment.

Power matters in +100 kg — but timing makes the power work.

What would you call this action: ura-nage, a variation, or something else? 👇

Technical analysis by Yerdos Khamzin

🥇🇰🇿 GOLD FOR KAZAKHSTAN!

Abylaikhan Zhubanazar takes the -81 kg gold at the Lausanne Grand Slam! 🔥

What makes the decisive moment special is not power — it is timing.

Zhubanazar stays patient, reads the movement, controls the distance and attacks exactly as his opponent transfers his weight. A perfectly timed de-ashi-harai becomes the decisive score.

This is the beauty of high-level judo:
Kumi-kata. Movement. Timing. Precision.

Congratulations, Abylaikhan! 🥋🥇

What do you think was the most important detail in this attack?

Technical analysis by Yerdos Khamzin

WHEN YOUR OPPONENT ATTACKS… USE HIS MOMENTUM. 🔥🥋

Giorgi Loladze 🇬🇪 produces a spectacular counter against Abdul Malik Umayev 🇧🇪 at the Lausanne Grand Slam 2026, -73 kg.

The most impressive part is not only the power — it is the timing. Loladze waits for Umayev to fully commit, controls the upper body, lifts, shifts his hips and turns the attack into an ippon.

The movement is very close to Utsuri-goshi.

What do you think — Utsuri-goshi, or would you classify it differently? 👇

Technical analysis by Yerdos Khamzin

Professional basketball players vs. judokas. 🏀🥋

The basketball players came to throw the ball into the basket.

The judokas came to throw the basketball players. 😂

One team was looking for three-pointers.
The other was looking for IPPON.

The basketball players jumped for the rim…
The judokas helped them fly even higher with UCHI-MATA! 😄

Final score:

🏀 Basketball — plenty of shots
🥋 Judo — plenty of throws

Winner?

Let’s just say… the basketball players learned very quickly that on this court, gravity works for judo. 😂🔥