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Neil Adams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1128 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

You know, it's different hitting a moving target, but it's also different hitting a moving target that's trying to hit you as well. And that's our game, right? So we're not only trying to throw a moving target, we're trying to throw a moving target that's trying to throw us. So it makes it even more difficult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

You know, it's different hitting a moving target, but it's also different hitting a moving target that's trying to hit you as well. And that's our game, right? So we're not only trying to throw a moving target, we're trying to throw a moving target that's trying to throw us. So it makes it even more difficult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

You know, it's different hitting a moving target, but it's also different hitting a moving target that's trying to hit you as well. And that's our game, right? So we're not only trying to throw a moving target, we're trying to throw a moving target that's trying to throw us. So it makes it even more difficult.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

When I watch great athletes, most of them can throw over both flanks. Not always going left and right, you know, although our sport always, I mean, the caters are always demonstrated left and right. So like if you demonstrate, if you do something on one side, you know, then can you demonstrate it on the other side, right? Okay. So can you do it equally? No. Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

When I watch great athletes, most of them can throw over both flanks. Not always going left and right, you know, although our sport always, I mean, the caters are always demonstrated left and right. So like if you demonstrate, if you do something on one side, you know, then can you demonstrate it on the other side, right? Okay. So can you do it equally? No. Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

When I watch great athletes, most of them can throw over both flanks. Not always going left and right, you know, although our sport always, I mean, the caters are always demonstrated left and right. So like if you demonstrate, if you do something on one side, you know, then can you demonstrate it on the other side, right? Okay. So can you do it equally? No. Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

but you do it differently right on the other side so you know when i'm teaching i i i don't teach left and right i teach so if i was teaching you to do a technique first thing i'd do is say i need you to take a sleeve and a lapel all right so i'd let you decide what was left and right okay because often what happens is we impart on people

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

but you do it differently right on the other side so you know when i'm teaching i i i don't teach left and right i teach so if i was teaching you to do a technique first thing i'd do is say i need you to take a sleeve and a lapel all right so i'd let you decide what was left and right okay because often what happens is we impart on people

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

but you do it differently right on the other side so you know when i'm teaching i i i don't teach left and right i teach so if i was teaching you to do a technique first thing i'd do is say i need you to take a sleeve and a lapel all right so i'd let you decide what was left and right okay because often what happens is we impart on people

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

whether they're going to be left or right when we start teaching. You get a lot of teachers do that. And they'll say immediately, what do you write with, left or right hand? And it's no indicator actually as to how we do judo because I'm left-handed and I do more predominantly right-handed because I lead off my strongest hand. And actually most people do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

whether they're going to be left or right when we start teaching. You get a lot of teachers do that. And they'll say immediately, what do you write with, left or right hand? And it's no indicator actually as to how we do judo because I'm left-handed and I do more predominantly right-handed because I lead off my strongest hand. And actually most people do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

whether they're going to be left or right when we start teaching. You get a lot of teachers do that. And they'll say immediately, what do you write with, left or right hand? And it's no indicator actually as to how we do judo because I'm left-handed and I do more predominantly right-handed because I lead off my strongest hand. And actually most people do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

So actually left and right is a bit of a trap sometimes when we're teaching. Better to...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

So actually left and right is a bit of a trap sometimes when we're teaching. Better to...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

So actually left and right is a bit of a trap sometimes when we're teaching. Better to...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

get you know because we can go so my point was is that a lot of people can go both flanks so they'll do something over this side and something over this side but anyway it was one-sided he was one-sided but he could he could switch it so he had a um uh c and aggie as well on the other side so he could switch it if he had to yeah and uh by the way your opponent in 84 was he righty or lefty

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

get you know because we can go so my point was is that a lot of people can go both flanks so they'll do something over this side and something over this side but anyway it was one-sided he was one-sided but he could he could switch it so he had a um uh c and aggie as well on the other side so he could switch it if he had to yeah and uh by the way your opponent in 84 was he righty or lefty

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

get you know because we can go so my point was is that a lot of people can go both flanks so they'll do something over this side and something over this side but anyway it was one-sided he was one-sided but he could he could switch it so he had a um uh c and aggie as well on the other side so he could switch it if he had to yeah and uh by the way your opponent in 84 was he righty or lefty

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

He was a righty.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

He was a righty.