Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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So then I said, I need to feel the difference as well. So we take the jackets off. So we took the jackets off and he was a nightmare. This guy was a nightmare and like a monster, you know, and he was like single legging me and, and, you know, it was just totally different, you know? So it was like the jacket makes a massive difference, huge difference.
to something, you know, and people think it's just a jacket that we're wearing, but it isn't. It's our only tool, actually.
It's absolutely insane. And then they changed the rules for a little while, and they changed the rules so that you couldn't hold – certain grips were not allowed. You're only allowed a certain amount of time, and there were a lot of penalties for them. And then they had some of the ex-fighters into the referee commission, and so we were pushing for –
Just let them grip, you know, because that's our game. You know, that's what makes us different. You know, again, if grip up with somebody like, so they were on about Teddy Rene.
Teddy Rene comes out, takes the sleeve.
Big arm over the top. And then, you know, he throws people, right? So they were saying, yeah, but you can't stop him doing it. This guy is six foot nine. Yeah. And he is built like Garth. And not only that, he's skillful as well. And he's got that mentality of a winner. He has got that mentality of a winner there. He just wins important matches.
Well, as long as they throw from it, so they can take any grip, as long as you move them and then catch them kind of action-reaction, really, as long as you catch them on the move, then you can do it.
Yeah, you can't block out.
So, like, for example, if I've got dominant grip on you and I just block out and I just stop you attacking me, so then what? I get you three penalties, get you off, and you haven't done an attack. So you've got to stop that. You can't have that.
devastating is is not you know it's not enough really um because you know the strange thing was is coming into that olympics i was tired really tired so my mental state wasn't the best wasn't certainly the same as it was coming into the previous um and i I remember thinking, I just need to get this over with, and then I'm going to have a break and just have a rest.
And that's totally the wrong attitude. It's just not good for going into an Olympic Games. And so I was coming in there with a different mindset. And I remember... Every match that I had, I was winning well, but I was winning with a struggle. I'd fought Novak, and I was pretty of France, who was one of the strongest physically. That was in the quarterfinals. I beat Brett Barron by an Ippon.
I armlocked him. I... won my first match by Ipon as well. And then Michel Novak, I was fighting a France and I was lucky to win it. I was up, I would scored on him, but I was like starting to defend and just everything that I talked to you about, you know, and then just about held on and then I won. And, you know, so him and I were talking afterwards, like some years afterwards.
And he said, I was close, wasn't I? I was close.
Of course. And no, he was right. And it was one of those. So it's through to the semifinal. I fought Lesak in the semifinal. And I'd fought him in the semifinal of the Worlds as well. I'd never gone time with him. You know, I'd never, I'd always beaten him fairly easily and with by upon. And that went time. So I was, you know, I was just, just glad to get it done.
And I was in the final then against Frank Vinica of Germany. And I'd beaten Vinica before, but he was just a young German coming through. And I, When I started the final, I thought, right, I've just, and I started all my techniques just that little bit off. Nothing was coordinated. Just it was just I can't really explain why it was just a little bit off.
I see it so often now with a lot of the guys that are going for second, third Olympic Games. And I see their technique just not quite there and they're struggling. And I know when they're, you know, I know what they're going through and I kind of empathize with them.
I dominated it. Yeah, I was winning. And actually, if it had gone another minute and a half, it would have been all over and I would have been Olympic champion and it would have been done. He wouldn't have battered an eyelid, right? Because he would have fought me really, really well.
Yeah, jumping up and down. And you can look at that, can't you? You go, well, it wasn't Ipom, but would I have got it back? I don't know. I think that actually taking the pressure off, because that was another thing as well, pressure of being favorite. And I see that with a lot of them. And the great champions, the ones that keep coming through, Capellick.
There's a guy, you know, he can look very ordinary and then comes the big tournament and he'll win it.
Split moment. Devastating. And lived it probably not every day. But, you know, Nikki, my wife, will tell you that woken up in sweats. And, you know, and I think they contributed as well because I had a period of my life after where I was drinking too much. And, you know, and I think kind of when I look back, kind of led into...
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