The Original Judo Podcast

The Original Judo Podcast


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Predicting the Olympic Champions Part 2 with Chris Barry
March 18, 2024

Predicting the Olympic Champions Part 2 the women. With British Judo's Chris Barry

Predicting the Olympic Champions with Chris Barry
January 31, 2024

This week we welcome to the show British Judo's Performance Analyst Chris Barry to discuss who this years Olympic Champions are going to be. This week we go through our predictions for the mens categories.

Season 2 Episode 45 with Double Paralympic medallist Sam Ingram
January 17, 2024

This week we welcome back to the show double paralympic medallist Sam Ingram.Sam is a return guest having graced the show way back in 2017 on episode 2, when he was still considering having a run at the Tokyo Paralympics. Long since making the decision t

Season 2 Episode 44 British Championships review
December 15, 2023

This week Fitz joins the show to wrap up the year with a brief review of the recent British Championships. Get in touch on twitter and instagram @originaljudopod

Olympic Selection Nightmares Canada -57kg
December 07, 2023

This week on the pod we welcome back double Olympic medalist and former World Champion Kate Howey to talk about Canada's dilemma at -57kg.After a cycle where both athletes were consistently at the top of the world rankings Jessica Klimkait got the select

Olympic Selection Nightmares Germany -78kg
November 29, 2023

This week we're joined by British Judo's Performance Analyst and Technical Lead (and former host of the Final Block Podcast) Chris Barry, to talk about why Japan have selected so early, ASMR and obviously Germany's selection dilemma at -78kg, deciding bet

Olympic Selection Nightmares France -73kg
November 20, 2023

This week we have a look at the dilemma the French are faced with at -73kg, as well as a brief look at the major results from the recent European Championships. We're joined by Caleb Drysdale, a fellow Hardy Spicer Judoka and talk through the two French a

Olympic Selection Nightmares Japan +100kg
September 17, 2023

In the run-up to Tokyo Olympics two nations ended up with very high profile domestic rivalries, that played out on the world stage. At -66kg Olympic hosts Japan held a fight off between their world champions Abe and Maruyama. At -57kg Canada let their jud

Olympic Selection Nightmares Croatia -70kg
September 10, 2023

In the run-up to Tokyo Olympics two nations ended up with very high profile domestic rivalries, that played out on the world stage. At -66kg Olympic hosts Japan held a fight off between their world champions Abe and Maruyama. At -57kg Canada let their jud

Olympic Selection Nightmares Georgia -90kg
August 31, 2023

In the run-up to Tokyo Olympics two nations ended up with very high profile domestic rivalries, that played out on the world stage. At -66kg Olympic hosts Japan held a fight off between their world champions Abe and Maruyama. At -57kg Canada let their jud