Neil Adams
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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Yeah, well, I got a sweet tooth, but it wasn't really. I mean, I didn't have a lot of money at that time. particular time either, you know, so the diet wasn't steak and, you know, good nutritional salads and things like that. You know, I did what I thought was best without, you know, proper advice.
And the crazy thing is, is that I had such good advice as well, you know, when it came to kind of fitness training and things like that. We're quite ahead of our time and, you know, we've really had it nailed as far as the conditioning was concerned. The judo training as well was a way in advance because I was a good trainer and I trained more than most. I can honestly say that.
It probably got me away with a lot.
I think in the early days, I didn't think I was going to lose. I never thought it was possible to lose. And I think that I went into every contest expecting to win. So when it didn't quite go my way, I didn't lose that many contests. So the only ones I lost were in the final of the World Championships or in the final of the Olympic Games. So I didn't lose that many. I never lost a European title.
I had seven golds at European championships, five at seniors, two at juniors, under 20s. And I never lost a final. And then I only lost two on a split decision. So I didn't lose that many. And my attitude was that I wasn't going to lose and I couldn't lose. So I was always surprised when something happened.
When I, when I look back now, there's a lot of years ago, we should say. It is a lot of years ago. Is that true? It's not far off. When I think about it now, because I'd like to think that I'm a different person now.
And, you know, since I've kind of calmed down, I see athletes now and I see them, you know, and their kind of arrogance, their walk and it's a strut, you know, and it's a kind of a confidence, isn't it? You know, and as we're older and as I've become older, I've calmed down. But, you know, it doesn't matter what I'm doing.
It's still that will to win, you know, and I'm much better at masking it now if I don't. But it still bothers me as much.
Yeah, I'm still trying to win, you know. Like, so my son loves to, he loves to play me at bowls because I'm useless, you know, and I just can't throw a straight bowl. So he loves playing me at that, you know, but it bugs me that I'm not better, you know. Yeah, yeah. There are certain things that I do. It really bugs me when I'm not good at it.
And I guess it's one of the reasons that, you know, long after I'd finished competition judo, people still want to train with you, you know. And even at a, like, kind of an older age, even now, if I do in a seminar or, you know, they'd still, you know, do you still do? Do you want to still go? Yeah. Can I feel it?
And one of the things that's in me is that I just, all the way up to 40 years of age, so from 30 when I finished competition up to 40, I could still train with the best. And I could still go with anybody. And then when 40 hit, kind of things started to fall off a little bit, you know, and I used to get, you know, either my hips or my legs and my knees.
And I realized that I had to pick my practices and that rankled as well. And I had to then just calm it down a little bit. Otherwise I was going to be injured and I was going to be, you know, it's not a good thing when you're getting older and you've still got the same competitive mind. But things change.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I do. Well, you know what? Some of these athletes, I mean, like I give you a prime example, right, is Ilias Ilias.
I mean, he is a monster, right? And you just, of course you couldn't, you know, because just at 60-something, you couldn't. But you like to think that you could.
You never know.
You know what you would do? What you can do is you can cause them problems, and they feel it immediately, but you'd last a minute, you know.
He trained with me. We were training together. Every hotel that we used to go into, we'd end up in the gym together and we'd train. And this one time he was in there and he just wanted somebody to grab and grip hold of. And so we ended up doing this kind of grappling in the middle. You're like the people doing weight training and, you know, different things, watching these two madmen doing.
I'm glad we weren't on a mat at that particular time. But good fun.
17, you imagine that, 17, 18 years of age, and he's able to compete with the men. There's not many men can do that, you know, and it doesn't happen very often. It happens later with the men. And often, they're not physically as developed as they, you know, so from me, for example, I fought Nevzorov, who was world and Olympic champion. He was the current world and Olympic champion.
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