Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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That's the key, isn't it?
Yeah, I think there's two kinds of commentating. You can commentate what you see, and then you commentate what... People can't see, you know, and so if you've got somebody that is not really understanding of what's happening in the inner part of the game, so it might be a technical thing or it might be the tactical part of the play here that's going on.
And if you can introduce that as well, then you've got an advantage.
Okay. Good stuff.
Yeah, I've got to say, Lex, I mean, everybody, still people saying to me, oh, you know, we need more judo on television. They've got judo on television every other week that they can access. All of the top people in all the top events. And it costs $100 a year, you know, to access everything. And they can play all the videos.
I mean, we've just accessed this here, the Paris tournament, and we're going to have a look at Teddy Renner. But, you know, it's cheap at the price.
He's the greatest judo winner of all time. Of that, there's no doubt. And I think if you asked him whether he was the greatest judo man in the world of all time, he would say, no, I'm not. And he's not the greatest judo man. There are people with more beautiful judo in some ways, although he's got great technique, but he is the ultimate winner.
Yeah.
You know, this is just a couple of months ago. And then last week, this last week he was out again and he won again.
There's people getting closer to him, right? Because he's obviously, age-wise and the amount of time that he's been there, he's obviously somebody that is starting not quite at his best as he was when he was younger. But like I say, he still puts it on the line. He lays it on the line every single time. And then not only does he lay it on the line, but he beats them all.
And last week he just beat Saito, who's a young up-and-coming Japanese fighter, and he beat him in the final. It was close, and he did well. There are certain people... The smaller ones, actually, not the taller ones, because we're saying about the big arm over the top that he likes and the dominant grip that he likes. There are people that can give him a hard time.
Now, if at the Olympic Games he has two or three of those on the trot, it might work against him. And it's by no means an absolute certainty that he's going to win the Olympic gold medal, but he's got to be one of the favourites.
top favourite you know no matter what happens now Teddy Renner is the greatest winner that you know and if you asked the great Yamashita he would say the same you know there's nobody that's you know and Yamashita was unbeaten in international competition and I trained with Yamashita a lot over a two year period and And got to know him quite well. And he was one of the greatest of all times.
You know, for me, he was one of the greatest judo men. And I'm talking about from a technical point of view, from a spectacular judo point of view, understanding the fundamental principles of how techniques work. Sometimes having different techniques that work for you. So if one doesn't work and one particular direction doesn't work, you can change the direction completely.
He would have caused him all sorts of problems.
I think so.
Yeah, and he finds it more difficult with shorter people. So it would have been a very interesting confrontation. And I think if you asked Yamashita, he would probably say that Teddy Renner, he's very gracious. He's really gracious. Mm-hmm. It would be really good. It would have been an unbelievable matchup. And I've got to say this, that, you know, Teddy Renner is the greatest winner of all time.
You see any of the top guys now, especially if they're second time out. So they might catch somebody by surprise. They come out, they go bang, and you go, that was amazing, right? But if they fought again, 10 minutes later, you go- You're not going to catch me with that, right? You've got a different situation here. And so it's slightly different. But the best fighters adapt like that.
And they're able to see a situation, feel the situation, and they attack once and then go again and attack second, third time. And in the third time, they make it work.
Yeah, sometimes they'll hit first time and it won't go. And then you make a readjustment of the way in. It's a little bit like, I mean, if you take a really easy way of understanding it, is if we're shooting at a target, And all of a sudden you start moving that target.
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