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Tips on Scoring Ippon

Tips on scoring Ippon are always worth listening to, but even more so when they come from five of Great Britain’s London 2012 Olympians.

Gemma Gibbons, Karina Bryant, Winston Gordon, Euan Burton and Ashley McKenzie reveal what it takes to score the perfect throw in judo.

Once you’ve read these champion tips, see which are the best judo techniques at an Olympics Games to score with.

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Illiadis Ippon could well be his name, he throws that many ippons! Iliadis’ first name is actually Ilias, and he is is one of judo’s biggest throwing powers.

In this article we take a look at one of the Olympic champion’s tokui-waza – Yamarashi.

Want to score more ippons? Or want to know how to score ippon and win at judo?