Judo techniques that actually score.
Pick a move and watch it land, back to back, in international competition from 29k+ clips from IJF World Tour events, every one of them a real score at the highest level.
How the star rating works
Stars are the Instructional Density Index: the number of distinct BJJ Fanatics instructionals whose chapter listings teach that move under its judo name. We scanned all 3,121 titles in the catalogue and found 528 of them teaching at least one of these techniques. The logic: if Danaher, Gordon Ryan, Lachlan Giles and Craig Jones keep devoting chapters to a throw, it has been vetted for jiu-jitsu by people whose job is winning.
Tiers come from the data, not opinion — 70+ instructionals is 5 stars,
30–69 is 4, 12–29 is 3, 4–11 is 2, 1–3 is 1.
Techniques BJJ adopted but renamed (ude-garami is the kimura, sankaku-jime the triangle)
score low here on purpose: this measures judo moves that crossed over
as judo, not shared ancestry.
Nage-waza
Throws · 62 techniquesKatame-waza
Pins, strangles and joint locks · 28 techniquesNo technique matches that. Try a partial name — “uchi”, “gatame”, “gaeshi”.
Counts are scoring clips available on video. Moves with fewer than 10 clips are still listed — they just make a short compilation. Footage: IJF World Tour, 2016–2019.