Neil Adams
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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I remember fighting two East Germans the same day, one of the competitions and the number one and the number two East Germans. And that was another day where I had to really dig deeper.
Yeah. And we have golden score now, you know, so we, we see a lot of guys, you know, that going into golden score and they've done one contest of four minutes and then they go another four minutes. And then, you know, we've had some go into a third, four minutes. This is all back to back. It might be in the first round.
It might be in the final, you know, and we've got some now that are coming out and you can see the stats and the, the ones that winning golden score. So we got a Japanese Hashimoto. He's the Japanese representative. And now, uh, instead of Ono, because Ono's finished. So Hashimoto's coming out. He was in a tournament last week.
Yeah, just have a look at him. So Hashimoto's in white here, all right? And there's a great example there. Well, I'm glad we got onto that, you know? So, I mean, he has got great technique, Hashimoto.
There's the tai toshi, all right? So you can see exactly what we're talking about there. Great timing there. And again, you know, sometimes he backs them up to the edge and then he'll wait for them to come back in towards they don't want to step out to get a penalty.
Yeah, cross grip, different grips. Oh, great examples there. Just what we were talking about.
So he's going to be their representative at 73 kilograms. Look at him, back him up again. And again, just catching him as he pushes back.
Yeah, action-reaction at his best there. And a slight change of direction. He sometimes goes down onto his knee there, which is siatoshi. It turns from taiatoshi, which is springing up, to siatoshi that's going down.
Yeah, this is him at his best, showing him doing what he does best. But he had to go three times into golden score last week. And dig deep. and lost one of them, I think.
Yeah, you know what? I realize that if I'm a miserable git, then she'll get me into the gym. And the thing is that I'm better if I get in there for an hour and I just do something. At least 30, 35 to 40 minutes cardio, and then I do some weights and more high repetitions. It's not so much heavy weights now, but more functional stuff.
Well, you know, during COVID, they closed all the gyms, but we were still going out. We were one of the first ones out. The judo was some of the first out. The competitions were behind closed doors. So we were in the hotel. The gym was closed, so we couldn't use the gyms. So we had to look for other ways that we could work out. So most of the hotels that we were in were high-rise hotels.
So we were in the steps. We were doing the steps right the way up, you know. So I started it, and so I started off with me going up, and then one or two of the others and the referees started to go up with me. Yeah. So in the end, we'd have this trail of people going up the steps and down, and every place we went to, we had the steps. So, yeah, that was an interesting situation.
So we were sick of steps in the end.
If you put 10 people in a room and said, right, get on with it, you'd have mayhem, right? And I think that Whatever sport you're doing, you need good instruction, good teaching, and a good club atmosphere. You know, somewhere that's not so intense that winning is the only thing. And I think that if you look at 90% of the people that practice martial arts are doing it for pleasure.
So they want to get pleasure. So you need a club that's got a bit of a mixture. You know, they've got a direction to go into competition if they want. And then the rest, it's for fun and to enjoy it, but with really good instruction. Because with really good instruction and a good foundation and a good base, you get more enjoyment because you have more success.
And let's be honest, the more success we have with something, the more we like it.
Great teaching is so important.
I think that with most, I mean, you do hear, don't you, you know, if somebody's been doing judo for eight years and then they're in, and I think it happened, one of the French, Chameo, she went to the Olympic Games in 2012 and she'd been doing judo for eight years. But then she started to lose, you know, so she had a relative success early on. The Olympics was one of them. She got a silver medal.
But then she went off the boil and then she came back and now she's been there for, she's still competing. And she's been there for well over 13 years at the very top. So I think that any foundation, it's like anything, if you lay a really solid foundation, generally it lasts longer.
I think technique, you get away with murder. With technique, you can get away with having bad condition. I mean, you get found out in the end. But you can go out and you can win certain things by doing really nice technique. But I think if you've got the mixture, if you've got the whole package, then you can go the whole way.
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