Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
Neil Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Twice. Yes. It is tragic. And I do have sleepless nights.
I hate losing more, but I love winning. When I won the world title a year later, and I had no doubt when I went in that day that I was going to be world champion. No doubt.
I think that it was – so my weight was better. I didn't have to lose weight. That was one thing. So the nutritional side wasn't as important, but probably, you know, it still wasn't as good as it could be, my nutrition. Although it was getting better and I was trying to eat the right things at the right time. But –
I still trained really well, and I was so confident there going into that world championships that I could win it. I had no doubt in my mind that I was going to win. But, you know, obviously, corner of your mind, you're thinking, just don't make mistakes. But, you know, this is the incredible thing is that...
Once you start to ask you, once I see contests change direction when I'm commentating, so I can see somebody who's in there just going forward, just trying to win, right? So, and that's a difference to somebody who's trying not to lose. And it's two different ways there, you know?
So sometimes when you, so when I was world champion, then I had a period of time where every time I stepped out there, I was really afraid of losing. Mm-hmm. And I think that that's what happens later on in your competitive career. You know, the great champions manage to come through that.
Teddy Rene is one of those, you know, he just, he puts it out there and he keeps beating them, you know, so they can't take it away from him. You know, it's fantastic.
That's a really good point is that if you go ahead in a match and you look at the clock, it depends when you go ahead. So sometimes you can go ahead in the first minute and you've still got three minutes to go.
So I see the ones then that go into, I don't want to lose because they go into defensive mode and then sometimes they can lose it on penalties or something can go wrong and the other one comes on strong and then they can sneak the contest. And so it's really difficult, but when I was coaching, I was trying to always encourage that positive attitude for the full four minutes, five minutes then.
Exhaustion's the one, isn't it? But it is, isn't it? It's a mindset as well. So actually trying to get your mind positive all the way through. So, I mean, if you listen, when I commentated now is I say I hope – That they don't change the mindset and that they keep on and they are going forward all the time, you know, and actually they're then more difficult to catch.
We had one just a couple of weeks ago and he lost in the final second of the contest. He was the only one to score. He got penalized all the way up. Two seconds to go and stepped out of the area. But he went like that, thinking the bell was just going. And the bell went one second after he actually stepped out. So he got penalized, lost the match, and lost all of the points for qualification.
So it was, you know, that's paying high price. That's paying high price.
Yeah, I mean, you just, the thing is, is sometimes, you know, when you're going, when it's competitive as well, you know, hours is a different intensity to like, where you can take time a little bit, hours is bang, it's transitioning from standing down, you've got 10, 15 seconds to go in there, you go in 100%.
It's a bit like running, you know, full out for 10 seconds, like, and then you've got to decide then Especially if they're defending it, whether you let it go, because when you get up and your forearms are blown, you know, and you've got lactic acid in there and you've still got to grip up. Because remember, ours is about gripping as well on the jacket.
So if you can't grip up, then you can't gain the advantage. they can throw you, you know, so you have to decide. So I had a massive attack on him and we changed directions four or five times and, and then I wasn't going to let him go, but I still, you know, when I was turning him there, I had to decide, am I going to go all out for this?
And, and just, or, you know, like there has been occasions when I've kind of released it to just, you know, if I've got a minute to go and just lock out. Yeah.
Yeah, I knew it. I just, as soon as I climbed his back and then I thought he's not going, he's not going, I'm not going to let him up. You know, so I was just changing, changing, something in my head was going, don't, don't, you know, just stick on him. And, and then it's always about pressure on the arm.
And, and I just, you know, and of course he was like that, you know, defending, you know, he was almost total bridge trying to get out of it.
Started in turtle because I did an attack, came back out of the attack, and then he went on to his front. And then I was on his back, and then I started the whole turn. Saw an opening and you just went for it? It was an automatic transition. So, I mean, the transitions are what we teach. Because the ones that are quicker down with the transitions are the ones that catch it.
That's our nawaza, you know, our groundwork is the transition from standing down to ground. It's very, you know, we don't have a situation where you can kind of work your way in. You are in or you're not in, you're standing, you know, so you've got to make sure that you're in. And so I had, I was just on his back like a leech and I never let him go.
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