 | Neil Adams MBE
Five-times European champion, World champion in 1981 and twice Olympic silver medallist, Neil Adams went on to become the head coach of the British judo team. He is recognised as the voice of Fighting Films and is a founder director. He has been involved in many of the company's productions, including Armlocks, Grips and Tai-otoshi (all Ippon Books), and Modern Competitive Judo, The BJA Junior Syllabus and The Gokyo (all Fighting Films).
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 | Michel Brousse
Michel Brousse, a 6th Dan black belt, is currently teaching judo and sports history at the Faculty of Sports Science, at the University of Bordeaux. Brousse has run judo clinics for national teams and coaches in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Spain and Venezuela. He is also researcher for the IJF.
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| | Jerry Hicks MBE, RWA
Jerry Hicks, an artist, teacher, sportsman and environmentalist, is a 7th Dan black belt. Hicks pioneered judo in the West of England and in British schools. His short stories have been read on BBC Radio 4. In 1994 he was awarded the MBE for services to sport and the community in the south-west
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 | Simon Hicks
The late Simon Hicks was director and co-founder of Fighting Films. He shot and directed the official IJF video records of the World and Olympic championships. For nearly 20 years Hicks coached international fighters. He was also the TV director for the European Judo Union and lectured on judo presentations and video analysis.
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 | Syd Hoare
Syd Hoare learned judo at The Budoqwai under Trevor Leggett before going to Japan in the early 1960s to further his judo practice. Upon his return from Japan he took a degree in Japanese and Zen studies at the University of London. In 1965 Hoare took a silver medal in the Open category of the Europeans. In recent years he has worked for Eurosport TV commentary on judo, wrestling and sumo, covering all the major World events.
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 | Alexander Iatskevich
Three-times European champion and World junior champion, Alexander Iatskevich is now widely respected as coach of the Belgian national team. Iatskevich began wrestling at the Dynamo Sambo club in Riga, Latvia, when he was 12. He then successfully transferred his sambo skills into the competitive international judo arena.
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 | Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki
After becoming World champion in sambo and judo, Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki moved to England where he taught at The Budoqwai for a year. He later returned to Japan and helped found the International Budo University in Japan, where he is now the senior coach.
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 | Trevor Leggett
The late Trevor Leggett has written some 30 books, among them: The Spirit of Budo; The Dragon Mask; and The Demonstration of Gentleness - a special collaboration with Dr Jigoro Kano. In 1984 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government. He held a BJA 9th Dan and Kodokan 6th Dan.
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| | Des Marwood
The late Des Marwood's first experience of judo was at the London Judo Society's Vauxhall dojo back in the 1950s. Pressure of media work prohibited him from taking the sport seriously until he found himself being lured back to a dojo ten years later. He did, for a number of years, run the Yoshinkwai Judo Club in London.
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| | David Matsumoto
David Matsumoto is the head instructor of the East Bay Judo Institute in El Cerrito, California, and Program Director of Development for United States judo. He has studied emotion, human interaction and culture for 20 years, and is an internationally recognised expert in this field.
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| | Andrew Moshanov
Andrew Moshanov is recognised in the former Soviet Union and Russia as one of the leading judo coaches and experts. He has an extensive background in performance judo as a national player, coach, an academician (with a degree in coaching science) and as an administrator of the Russian Judo Federation as Sports Director.
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 | Hidetoshi Nakanishi
Upon retirement, World champion Hidetoshi Nakanishi instructed at the International Budo University. He has also spent a year in England where he taught at The Budoqwai. Currently, he coaches at Tokai University, his alma mater.
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 | Jean-Luc Rouge
President of the French Judo Federation, Jean-Luc Rouge has played a key role in the growth of the sport in his homeland. He was four-times European champion and, in 1975, was the first French World champion.
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 | Nobuyuki Sato
Nobuyuki Sato is a double World champion. Former head coach of the Japanese national team, Sato was, for many years, technical director of the Education and Diffusion Committee of the IJF. He is currently a professor of physical education at the Toaki University in Japan.
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| | Nicolas Soames
Nicolas Soames is the founder of Ippon Books, the specialist judo publishing house. Soames has reported on every major Olympic, World and European championships, and many other events, for two decades, writing for leading newspapers and magazines. He is also a specialist judo advisor for BBC TV.
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 | Hitoshi Sugai
Japan's World light heavyweight champion in 1985 and 1987, Hitoshi Sugai, currently works as manager of a famous tennis club in Japan. He still competes in the All-Japan Businessmen Championships for his company: Fuji & Tri-Ocean. Recently he represented Japan in the World Masters.
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 | Michael Swain
Michael Swain is the only male World champion to have emerged from the Pan-American Judo Union. He currently serves as Olympic coach of the American national team and still teaches at his alma mater: San Jose State University.
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 | Robert van de Walle
Robert van der Walle, multiple European, World and Olympic medallist, had a remarkable competitive career spanning nearly 20 years. van der Walle's tournament highlight was Olympic gold in 1980. Always a great motivator, he now gives seminars for businesses and others who are active in the field of human relations.
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 | Yasuhiro Yamashita
Yasuhiro Yamashita is arguably the greatest judoka of all time. From October 1977 to when he retired in April 1985 Yamashita went undefeated, winning all 203 of his fights, including four World Championships and the 1984 Olympics. As Coaching and Education Director of the IJF he is currently working with Fighting Films on a series of DVDs about coaching judo to children.
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