• Detailed information on some of the techniques used in the sport of Judo.

Complex Animated Throwing Techniques

Adam Gleeson (click to go to his home page) is a postgraduate student at Sheffield Hallam University. Combining the University's motion capture hardware and software suite, with his own extensive and accomplished animation skills, he set about creating state of the art animations to show judo throws in better detail. Bob Maxwell and Steve Bentham provided the judo skills on the day by wearing the specialist lycra suits equipped with motion sensors, which allow the computers to capture each throw in detail. Not an easy task, Bob and Steve had to perform each throw multiple times to ensure a high degree of information was captured so that Adam had enough data to translate into a real world animated simulation. Adam's exciting finished work is profiled above.

Basic Animated Throwing Techniques

Here are a few Judo Throwing Techniques. Roll the mouse over the top of the small thumbnail picture to view the animation of the technique (remember that if you have a pop-up blocker to disable it for this page or the animations will not pop-up!). When you have finished viewing the animations remember to close the animation window.

Ashi Guruma	Harai Tsuri	Hiza Guruma	Ko Soto Gake	Ko Soto Gari	Ko Uchi Gari
Koshi Guruma	O Soto Gari	O Soto Otoshi	Tomoenage	Tsuri Goshi	Tsuri Komi Goshi
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Uchi Mata	Uki Goshi	Uki Otoshi	Utsuri Goshi	Yoko Otoshi	XX

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