What is "ippon"

Usage examples of "ippon".

A full point is called an ippon, and that immediately terminates the match.

Normally an ippon is scored by throwing your opponent cleanly on his back.

But an ippon is like a knockout in boxing: fast and sure, no matter what has gone before.

I had been in competition a dozen years, and I damn well knew an ippon when I saw one.

I drilled them both in the ippon seoi nage and the o soto gari, keeping it simple.

In judo an ippon is scored by a clean throw, a thirty-second holddown, an armlock, choke, or strangle.

Pedro must have twisted in the air, trying to fall on his side so that there would not be an ippon, a point scored against him, and twisted on his side as he landed, injuring his spinal cord.

An ippon is like a home-run in baseball with the bases loaded, or a touchdown in the final seconds in football: a game-winning score.

Again he flew and landed, and again the referee signaled ippon intelligently.

No doubt Uke thought it had been an ippon, but now those hard-nosed judges were on my side.

I showed him some of the breakfalls and talked him through the ippon seoi nage throw the way Vonnie had done for me with o goshi.

She threw me again with the ippon seoi nage, one of the few throws that will work naked, and it was evident that I had lost much of my fear.

He scowled in disbelief, for novels were looked ippon as frivolous and time-wasting.

Ippon seoi nage, o uchi gari, koshi guruma, just the ones we could do without clothing, since we remained nude.

I locked it in, neutralizing the laser, and ducked down to haul him over my shoulder in a judo throw, Ippon seoi nage.