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Neil Adams

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

And then you get, you know, the wrestlers and the leg picks and the double legs, single legs, double legs. And, you know, and it kind of, by 1995, you know, judo was bent over. And so it was the IOC that went to IJF, International Judo Federation. And they said, you got to change this or we're just going to have one wrestling style. It looks like wrestling with judo, with judo jackets on.

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

So you either change it or we're going to take one of you out.

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

So you either change it or we're going to take one of you out.

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

So you either change it or we're going to take one of you out.

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

throws and uh dynamic judo and exciting stuff to watch right win by judo not not by wrestling and i think that you know the ones that were shouting about it were the wrestlers right because they they like to compete with both they like they want to do both they want to do you know their wrestling matches and and then come into judo so basically i mean what what we've said is

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

throws and uh dynamic judo and exciting stuff to watch right win by judo not not by wrestling and i think that you know the ones that were shouting about it were the wrestlers right because they they like to compete with both they like they want to do both they want to do you know their wrestling matches and and then come into judo so basically i mean what what we've said is

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

throws and uh dynamic judo and exciting stuff to watch right win by judo not not by wrestling and i think that you know the ones that were shouting about it were the wrestlers right because they they like to compete with both they like they want to do both they want to do you know their wrestling matches and and then come into judo so basically i mean what what we've said is

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

Then learn to do judo and there's nothing stopping you then from doing both, right? But not from the other way around. All right. So rules always dictate development. They'll always dictate which direction it goes. So if you introduce a rule that states that you cannot dive at the legs and just pick up, then... you'll have to do it standing up.

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

Then learn to do judo and there's nothing stopping you then from doing both, right? But not from the other way around. All right. So rules always dictate development. They'll always dictate which direction it goes. So if you introduce a rule that states that you cannot dive at the legs and just pick up, then... you'll have to do it standing up.

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

Then learn to do judo and there's nothing stopping you then from doing both, right? But not from the other way around. All right. So rules always dictate development. They'll always dictate which direction it goes. So if you introduce a rule that states that you cannot dive at the legs and just pick up, then... you'll have to do it standing up.

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

And also it increases the possibility of defense with the hips because actually, um, good defense judo wise standing up is with the hips as opposed to sticking your arms out and then sticking your backsides out there just to defend. All right. So if you attack me and I, I, I move my body in the wrong place. So I'm in the right, wrong place at the right time. So you don't hit the right target.

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

And also it increases the possibility of defense with the hips because actually, um, good defense judo wise standing up is with the hips as opposed to sticking your arms out and then sticking your backsides out there just to defend. All right. So if you attack me and I, I, I move my body in the wrong place. So I'm in the right, wrong place at the right time. So you don't hit the right target.

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

And also it increases the possibility of defense with the hips because actually, um, good defense judo wise standing up is with the hips as opposed to sticking your arms out and then sticking your backsides out there just to defend. All right. So if you attack me and I, I, I move my body in the wrong place. So I'm in the right, wrong place at the right time. So you don't hit the right target.

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

And then also I use my hips to You know, so again, it's a form of judo that was being lost. So now we got it back.

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

And then also I use my hips to You know, so again, it's a form of judo that was being lost. So now we got it back.

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

And then also I use my hips to You know, so again, it's a form of judo that was being lost. So now we got it back.

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

I think, you know, when you say it is a way of life, I mean, I think the great advantage that we have in judo, my young grandson, so I got two little boys. that are three and a half years of age, love going to our dojo. They love it, you know? So dojo was the first word that they used. It was one of the first.

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

I think, you know, when you say it is a way of life, I mean, I think the great advantage that we have in judo, my young grandson, so I got two little boys. that are three and a half years of age, love going to our dojo. They love it, you know? So dojo was the first word that they used. It was one of the first.

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

I think, you know, when you say it is a way of life, I mean, I think the great advantage that we have in judo, my young grandson, so I got two little boys. that are three and a half years of age, love going to our dojo. They love it, you know? So dojo was the first word that they used. It was one of the first.

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

So when they come to see us, you know, so to see my wife and I, you know, it's like dojo. It's not grandma, granddad, you know, it's a dojo. So dojo, they take their shoes off going into the dojo. You know, so they have respect for where they're at, you know, and I think it has that kind of feeling that like I tried to build my dojo with a feeling of reverence.