Neil Adams
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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And getting it moving. So one of the biggest, most important things is getting it moving. If we do something static, again, it's that static target. You need to get it moving. So you need to do a repetition and also you need to do a correct repetition because if you're doing a hundred repetitions that are not correct...
And repetition's under pressure, too much pressure, without somebody overseeing those skills to make sure that you correct the skills. Because if you're doing a skill, if you're doing it 99 times incorrectly, all right, then repetition doesn't make perfect. Repetition makes permanent. So you've got to make it as perfect as you possibly can.
So actually, that skills group there is the most important thing. And what I used to do is oversee it. So I'd oversee it to make sure that it was done properly.
I'll give you an example. Jimmy Pedro. Jimmy was one of the hardest when he was 19 years of age, right? So I was always asking me to practice, always. So he's always on me all the time. So I do groundwork with him. Could I put him on his back? No. I was all on him and he'll tell you, you know, but he just wouldn't go. He was going to be great without a doubt, all right?
So I wanted everybody on with him. Everybody. So everybody went on with him, you know, and so they only improved their game and it improved him. And then with, you know, small technical things that have stayed with him that we were doing with the Jujigatami that was passed on to Kayla and then gone on, you know, to Rhonda.
And it's all small things that I can see sometimes that, you know, it's passed on.
Yeah, and he does it differently.
It makes no sense. Other than it's every technique starts with the hands. So it's what we call Kazushi. And, you know, you're pulling somebody off balance, getting them moving, pulling them off balance. Tayatoshi means body drop. So it's basically two legs across your partner's body.
I've got my back to you, all right, and I've already pulled you off balance with my hands, and then I'm going to just flex my legs up just as you're coming onto my back, and then you're going to go over. If I coordinate it all right, if it doesn't get coordinated right, then you're going to come right on my back and try to rip my arm off. So, yeah, I've got to get it right.
The hands start every technique. So getting the repetition right, first of all. So to get the repetition right, you need a good partner. So actually training your partner to react in the right way is just as important as learning the throw. So actually what happens is, you know, we could get a lesson of beginners. We teach the throw and then go, right, off you go.
And 90% of them will get it wrong because their partner's not reacting in the right way. So half of it is to get the person to react correctly. as they should. So if I was doing it with you, you and I, first thing I teach you to do is to react the way I want you to react. And then I'd react the way that you want me to react. All right.
So then we'd have success with it rather than you leaning back in the wrong way or resisting or frightened you going over. So, you know, so actually that's why nine times out of 10 people get the technique wrong.
Yeah, you have to develop between, you know, I always had training partners that I trained with up to each Olympic Games and we worked together, we did the skills together and then we worked together in order to make techniques work. And we got it moving as quickly as we could. And one of the worst things that I see is, and I see a lot of YouTube stuff with coaches. Here we go.
Don't even start me on that. Don't even start me on that. But, you know. You're laughing because you know what I'm talking about, right?
Yeah. Well, you know, the coaches and their clipboard guys, you know, with the clipboards and the stopwatches and, you know, they got these kids running up and down the mat and then doing – of something that's technically incorrect, you know, 10 times and then running up and doing another 10 at the other side, you know, and actually mixing everything together and it's just a mess.
Just a technical mess.
Probably ran too much. You know, when I was a kid, if I could go back now, I wouldn't run as much. And I ran hard and I ran strong. And I remember doing London Marathon one time and... I said, I'm never going to do it again. I said, never. But I ran, you know, and I was trying to – the problem was when I did the London Marathon is I was trying to beat three hours.
It's totally insane, you know. It was insane. And I went out through half marathon in what I thought was a good time. Anyway, I got to 16, 17 miles and totally blew. So you went out too fast. Yeah, I went out too fast.
I died. Absolutely. Just. I died. I got in. I crossed the line. I remember seeing this bridge over there, right? And the bridge, it was the finishing line over the bridge. And I had to get there. It was the longest bridge I've ever, ever walked over. It was like walk, run. So I got over the bridge and I took one step over the line like that.
And there was a guy over there and he was trying to rush everybody through, you know, and he was going, come on, come on, come on. There was people behind you. Get your hands off me. I said, get your hands off me now. Because we're going to fall out. And I couldn't move. I couldn't move. I was white.
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