The IJF's wish is to defend fundamental judo values.

Within this scope IJF particularly devotes itself to preserve and develop education, physic and mental trumps of Judo.

"Judo is a physic and mental education system".

From the other side, IJF would not like to change Refereeing rules during Olympic qualification period. For this reason it will proceed in this sphere with necessary experimentations and their testing before the first January 2010.

The experimentations have been tested during the World Championship Juniors 2009 in Paris and they will continue at the following IJF competitions Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi on November 20 and 21 2009, Grand Prix of Qingdao China on November 28 and 29 2009, World Cup of Suwon Korea on December 4 and 5 2009, and Big Slam of Tokyo Japan on December 11, 12 and 13 2009. At the end of this one, a decision concerning these rules will be taken.

GP ABU DHABI - GP QINGDAO - WC SUWON - GS TOKYO
Strict application of the refereeing rules in the following fields

Forbidden Grips of legs and blocking
All direct attacks or blocking with one or two hands or with one or two arms below the belt are not allowed.

Punishments First attack - Shido
Second attack - Hansokumake

Authorized Grips of legs in sequence of technique
Grips below the belt are authorized only after a sequence of techniques if it's real and sincere.

Authorized Grips of legs in counterattack
These counterattacks are allowed only within a sequence continuity of techniques started by the opponent. The principles of Go No Sen and Sen No Sen.

For better understanding of the new rules, while giving a punishment referees will explain it by an appropriate gesture.

Refereeing system
The contests will be refereed by only one referee without 2 referees at the corners.
The "Care" system with 2 cameras filming the contest at 2 different angles will be set up to help the one unique referee.
Control and supervision of the "Care" system will be done by the IJF Refereeing commission

Golden Score
Regarding Golden Score part of contest the entire marking of refereeing scoreboard resulting of initial contest will be conserved during this period except the contest duration.
At the end of Golden Score and if no advantage was marked, the referee will take a decision for the period of initial contest and its Golden Score part.