Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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I did. I got over there. And Donald Duck passing me was a telltale.
Donald Duck, yeah. But the thing was, I still crossed over 3.38. I crossed over 3.38, but I lost 38 minutes in the last four miles.
So anyway, I would do the running a little bit differently, but we ran hard. We did the weight training. We did good weight training. It was all conditioned. So, I mean, it was never the same training all the time. So it was always we'd have certain phases building up. It was scientifically done. It wasn't just out there, run, weight training, judo, same judo all the time.
It was always pretty scientific. Good variety. It was a good variety, and it had buildup, and it had a speed phase, and it had a power phase, and it had, you know, like a base condition.
A lot. So the most important thing for me, I mean, I see now that there's a lot of people out there that are not getting enough Randori. They're not rendering enough. And there's a lot of sports science people, and they're running, and they're weight training, and they're doing it all to death. And there's not enough judo.
And the only ones, you know, like you have a look at some of the Eastern Bloc countries that are getting together. They're having these mass camps. And... The Japanese, they have, you know, just massive people that they can do. They're doing probably 50, 60 randerers a week. Wait, what? 50 or 60 a week. Wow. The average person is getting together.
I mean, when I was doing randerers, when I went to Japan, it was just purely for 60 randerers a week.
So they were five minutes then. They're four minutes now.
Well, you can do it in Japan because it's fairly light. If they throw you, they throw you. You throw them.
Different in Korea. Korea was harder. It was more physical. So you couldn't do 50 randerers in Korea. You'd die. Yeah. So you'd do 30. Wow. But you need the randerer. And so I chased the randerers. So I chased them into training camps. I traced them all over my country. So I was getting 40 to 50 a week in my club. And then I would go to training camps and add more.
And I honestly don't think that they do enough now. A lot of countries.
Yeah, sparring.
Goldtooth is pretty horrific.
I got him in the end. And yeah.
Great training partners. I remember with Nishida and Nishida was, I mentioned him earlier. said he was one of the best. I mean, he was just such a great technician. So I would go there to his dojo and he'd ask me to practice. And he'd always, he'd finish the practice and you know that he would always say another one, we'll do another one, right?
So you'd go, yeah, because you had to make out that you weren't that bothered that you had to do another one. So you do another one back to back and then he goes sometimes, let's do another one. So you'd end up doing 15 minutes with the same guy who could possibly throw you at any time, you know, and that was hard, you know. But I remember those particular guys and there were plenty of those.
And I think that that was the great thing about having certain... European training camps were more physical. So I remember that we would have... European training camps where you'd fight Germans and then the Dutch and then the French and then the Russian. You'd have all sorts of different styles and people there to fight.
And that was something then you'd have to dig in at a different place, come out of there.
Competition, it's happened. You know, so sometimes you go past where your forearms are absolutely blown. I remember the final of Czech Games. tournament that we had and fought a Frenchman in the final. And my forearms were so blown I couldn't shake his hand, you know. And then I remember they were solid, absolutely solid, and they had lactic acid in them.
And I remember I stood on the rostrum and they were giving me things and I couldn't grip them properly. So I was saying, put it under my armpit or, you know, chin, like that, like that. Trying to hold this. I couldn't hold anything, you know. And so there are times when I really had to go really deep.
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