Video providers
Most techniques here link several demonstrations, filmed by different people for different purposes. Put the ones you trust at the top and every technique page will offer them first.
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1.Kodokan
Judo's founding institute in Tokyo, and the authority on the classical form of every technique in this reference. Its channel demonstrates techniques and kata in the Kodokan's own standard, which is what an examiner is ultimately measuring against.
110 demonstrations · Kodokan Judo Institute · Website
2.British Judo
The BJA's own grading videos, filmed per syllabus item and grouped by grade. Because they follow the Mon and Kyu syllabuses exactly, they are the closest match to what a British grading actually asks for.
82 demonstrations · British Judo Association · Website
3.Destination Judo
A British coaching channel covering the same grading syllabuses item by item, with a second look at each requirement. Useful precisely because it demonstrates the same list differently.
91 demonstrations · Website
4.USA Judo
A large library of judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu technique clips, filmed plainly and briefly. Broad coverage, including groundwork positions the grading syllabuses barely touch.
68 demonstrations
5.Efficient Judo
Instructional series that split a technique into basic principles, set-ups and competitive variations, so the same throw is covered three ways at different depths.
29 demonstrations
6.Judo Video Library
Archive footage of named instructors, one technique per clip. Valuable for seeing how a technique is done by someone who spent a career on it.
63 demonstrations
7.Mike Swain
A world champion working through the classification of throws in one long lesson, chaptered by technique. Entries here deep-link to the moment each technique starts.
65 demonstrations
8.Akita Judo
A club channel with technique demonstrations among its wider club footage. Only the technique videos are indexed here.
112 demonstrations
9.Assorted
Individually chosen demonstrations from across YouTube, gathered over the years by the project owner. No single channel behind them, so judge each on its own merits.
52 demonstrations
Channels worth following
Coaches, competitors and federations who publish judo on YouTube. Nothing here is indexed technique by technique, so there is nothing to rank: this is a list of places to go looking, with where each one is based.