Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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You know, I mean, I'm always looking small ideas, you know, I'm always looking at the jujitsu and I just, it fascinates me. You know, I would have done jujitsu for sure, but I wouldn't have forgotten the, the judo way in to the techniques. You know what I mean? I think that you've got to differentiate the two, but I would have, I would have loved the jujitsu. I would have absolutely loved it.
But it wasn't as prominent then. Where the nawaza came from, it came from a mistake, me getting beaten in a particular contest. And I went, I'm not going to be beaten again on the ground.
The phoenix rises. Well, it was 1978, and it wasn't a mistake. It was a particular movement, and I was fighting weight up from my normal weight. But I'm... Stayed in the same position for one second too long, got caught. Choked? Sangaku, yeah. Triangle. Triangle. Wow. And I said, literally, just the same as I said to you when I said, I'm not going to drink anymore.
I came off and I said, I'm never going to get caught on the ground again. Yeah, never going to lose on the ground ever again. And I never lost in my whole competitive career again.
But it's not part of the game, is it? The pin, it's submission.
I'm sure I was being set up at one stage by one of the Graces. And that was when he was winning all the matches. But he came with a couple of the cousins to one of my seminars. Yeah. And he was one of the first ones, wasn't he, that... And that's how I love to see the kind of UFC because it was different martial arts, different skills.
And, you know, I mean, he'd get close and he'd just choke them out or arm lock them or, you know, arm bar them. And that was brilliant. You know, that was, for me, that was a revelation. That was how I saw it.
Yeah. I think one of the biggest things... for the judoka is we've never you know there's no strikes and uh i think that's the biggest um shock if you wish you know that when you get yeah punched in the face you get punched in the face and and and you're not used to that you know that's that's not what we're used to
Whatever, you know, she decides. I mean, Ronda as well, you know, whatever they decided to do, they're great athletes. Yeah. They hate losing. I don't know anybody that hates losing more than those two. They don't like it.
I always wanted to train harder than anybody else. I still train now every day. If I don't train, do something. I do an hour of my physical work, and I still go on the mat a little bit. I'm 65 now, so I'm not doing really heavy stuff on the mat. But I still liked to train. And when I was 21, 20, up to 30, I was one of the best trainers.
But, you know, Jimmy Pedro was one of the best trainers as well. He was one of the – he's one of your dream athletes. You know, when Jimmy Pedro steps through your door – And he was just a kid, you know, he was just young when he stepped through my door. And I had a lot of full-time trainers. So I had up to 20 really good athletes that were training hard. And I only wanted hard trainers.
Give me 10 that trained hard rather than your one prima donna that, you know, you're skillful, the one that… I wanted 10 or 20 really hard trainers because you can do so much with them. You can make champions. You can make them world champions. If you've got somebody that was a special talent and they wanted to work hard, then you had a special athlete.
Yeah, when the going gets tough, and I think that was him. He had a special mentality, and the thing is, you see, when you got him in your dojo, All right. Even when you're tired, when somebody's tired and when, you know, what an example to the others. So he'd pull the other ones in as well, you know.
So I had somebody that when everybody was tired and everybody was sick of it and everybody just wanted to, you know, and he'd still be there, you know, so they had to do it. So that was, for me, a win-win. So I had all the Americans, actually. I had Bobby Berland, and I had Michael Swain, and I had Ed Liddy, and I had them all coming to visit me at different times. Jimmy was there.
They wanted to be the best. In the end, we had such a great club atmosphere. They wanted to come for the hard work. Mm-hmm. And they knew that if they came, they were going to be dragged out and we were going to do physical training. And it was physical training like they hadn't done before. But it wasn't just physical training. It was the judo and the skill side of it as well.
And so I always had a great empathy with the U.S., Team, Olympic team. So a lot of your Olympic medalists have been through with me. And so I'm proud of that because we had some great times. And they're still great mates now. And so in New York, in a couple of weeks' time, I'm going to have everybody who's going to be there. They're all coming in.
Twice a day. So we do the preparation training, we do the running, we do the weight training, we do the skills in the morning as well. The skills is for me, one of the biggest advantages that any full-time trainers can have. Because what happens is, is that with most clubs, you're trying to fit everything into that hour and a half or two hours.
You know, you fit your skills, you fit your physical training and your sparring and your, you know, everything's in there all grouped in. So the biggest advantages of having a full-time group is that you can split your skills and your skills lay your foundation. So the biggest advantage is being able to work specifically on things without having to worry about getting to work.
don't do your free, you know, your randori or your sparring, or then you've got to go back for, you just do the skills.
All those things about doing your repetition practice, making sure the repetition's correct. There's good repetition.
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