Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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No, because it would leave his back all the time, you know, if it failed. Yeah, if it failed. But he wouldn't have the same kind of grip on the judogi or the jiu-jitsu gi.
And that's what he did. He learned the game. And I think that is credit to him. And that's why I was saying about wrestling, the wrestlers, I mean, we – Good to learn the judo and for what it is and the mechanics and how it works. And then learn the wrestling. I mean, I do the commentary as well for the freestyle and I will be at the Olympics for the freestyle and the Greco-Roman.
And I love the freestyle. Absolutely love it. But freestyle is freestyle. Judo is judo. I like to see people doing judo.
Yeah, we've got some amazing crossovers with people like the Mongolians have come in, the Georgians. I mean, the Georgians do massive pickups and different techniques.
And, you know, if you ask the fighters whether, you know, grabbing the legs, you know, a lot of them would say some of the wrestling styles, you know, the Georgians and the Mongolians might say, yeah, I'd like to be able to take the legs. But, you know, A lot of them just adapted. You get Iliadis, for example. He just adapted.
So he thought, I'll take my arm over the top and I'll just rip him out the floor that way.
Yeah.
And they figured it out like that.
No, exactly.
They're a different approach, different time scale to them, and they have a different way in. So ours comes from a standing position directly in. We've got a time scale on it. So we have to – like the catch. I always talk about the catch because in judo terms, if you don't get the catch immediately, then the referee won't see the transition in and also the –
continuation from plan a b c d you know if something builds so we have to build it and we uh we have to build it quickly and i think in jujitsu terms you have more time to build
You've got to show the progression, and that's why, you know, I always had a plan A, B, C. You see there with, you know, that was 1981 there. The great Kashima Zaki had – had a progression. You know, everything was, he knew exactly where he had to be. It was feel, you know, that wasn't by accident. It was, it was trained.
And I think that that transition there and taking control of somebody's mistakes. So somebody might have made a mistake or not hit properly, or your defense has caused them to make a mistake and then you take advantage of it. And that, that is the difference. Yeah.
It's that 10 second blast, isn't it? You know, it's, it's, it's like doing sprints all the time, you know, and that, that is really hard. And that's a special kind of condition you need and you need to be able to catch it and know when to go and when not to go. And I think also, I know I was going to ask you, you think it make a difference? I mean, certain, uh, jujitsu, uh,
you can't just throw yourself on your back, you know, into the guard. You have to throw into the situation, you know what I mean? So you have got, I mean, I know Roger Gracie, he decided that he was going to learn judo. He saw the importance of being able to throw for the transition in. And so he came to the Budokai and he was learning off Ray Stevens and, you know, they were doing really a lot.
Yeah.
Amazing, isn't it? But he has about a thousand ways in.
I think there's the power element as well, you know, that you don't realize how, you know, when somebody's directed in a particular way, then you have that kind of element of absolute power. You can only feel like when Roger's doing a technique. I think that you would only feel it if he did it on you, you know, then you can feel it.
It's not something that happens, you know, like, so tricks is one thing, but actually being able to do something really well From a power point of view, you know, it's like you say, he only does those few things, but he does them really, really, really well.
It's about, it's about weight distribution and change of balance. You know, a lot of people don't realize that there's huge changes of balance on the ground. Massive, you know, you know what it's like. I mean, you know, you're a jujitsu man and, and, you know, the detail of the techniques is what really interests me.
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