The secret to mastery: Train harder than anyone else | Neil Adams and Lex Fridman

well let me ask you about training again Jimmy Pedro said he learned a lot from you he learned how to do uh taoshan the armbar G katami but he also learned from you training methodology so what's he talking about he told me about this what what what what's your approach to training throughout your career and as it developed I always wanted to train harder than anybody else I still train now every day if if I don't train do something I do do an hour of my physical work and I still go on the mat a little bit you know I'm 65 now and so I'm not doing really heavy stuff on the mat but I still like to train and when I was 21 20 up to 30 I was one of the best trainers but you know Jimmy Pedro was one of the best trainers as well he was one of the he's one of your dream athletes you know that when Jimmy Pedro stepped through door and he was just a kid you know he was like he was just young when he stepped through my door and I had a lot of full-time trainers so I had up to 20 really good athletes that were training hard and I only wanted hard trainers give me 10 that trained hard rather than your one Primadonna that you know your skillful you the one that that you know could do it I I just I wanted 10 you know or 20 really hard trainers because you can do so much with them you can make Champions you can make them world champions you know if you got somebody that was a special talent and they wanted to work hard then you had a special athlete well when you say hard trainers what what do you mean are these people they just like every single day are able to just grind it out do randori do the training do the the boring things just keep coming back when they going gets tough you know and I I think that that was him he had a special mentality and you know and the thing is you see when you got him in your dojo all right even when you're tired when somebody's tired and when you know what an example to the others so he'd pull the other ones in in as well you know so I so I I had somebody that when everybody was tired and everybody was sick of it and everybody just wanted a you know and he'd still be there you know so they had to do it so that was for me a win-win you know so he I had all the Americans actually and I had um Bobby berland and I had Michael Swain and I had Ed lidy and I had I them all coming to visit me uh at different times uh Jimmy was there you know they they wanted to be the best in the end we had such a a great Club atmosphere they wanted to come for for for the hard work and they knew that if they came they were going to be dragged out and we were going to do physical training and it was physical training like they hadn't done before uh but it wasn't just the physical training it was the Judo and and the uh and the skill side of it as well and so I always had a great empathy with the US team Olympic team so a lot of your Olympic medalists have been through with me you know and so I'm I'm proud of that because we had you know some great times and they're still great mates now and and so in New York uh in a couple of weeks time uh I'm going to have everybody is's going to be there they're all coming in old friends all old friends and new friends so uh what what what's the tough week look like at your Peak physical training randori uh is there days off uh are you training like twice a day twice a day um so we do the preparation training we do the running we do the weight training we do the skills in the morning as well uh the skills is for me one of the biggest advantages that any full-time trainers can have because um what happens is is that with most clubs you're trying to fit everything into that hour and a half or two hours you know you fit your skills you fit your your physical training and your your uh sparring and your you know everything's in there all grouped in so the biggest advantages of having a full-time group is that you can split your skills and your skills lay your foundation so the biggest Advantage is being able to work specifically on things without having to worry about getting to do your free you know your randor or your your sparring or then you got to go out for you just do the skills well when you talk about skills like what is say your specialty as a taoshi what are we talking about Uchi comei doing a bunch of fist working with bands are you doing throws are you actually just having conversations about like specific like tiny details of throws like what what does skills mean all those things about doing your repetition practice making sure the repetition is correct you know there's good repetition so when we say good repetition does it what you call me when you're just fitting the throw versus doing the throw where do you land on the value and getting it moving you know so one of the biggest most important things is getting it moving uh if we do something static again it's that static Target you need to get it moving so you need to do a repetition and also you need to do it correct repetition because if you're doing a 100 the repetitions that are not correct and repetitions under pressure too much pressure without somebody overseeing those skills to make sure that they that you correct the skills because if you're doing a skill if you're doing it uh 99 times incorrectly all right then uh repetition doesn't make perfect repetition makes permanent so you got to make as per as perfect as you possibly can so actually that skills group there is the most important thing and what I used to do is oversee it so I'd oversee it to make sure that it was done properly so you're watching the the footwork you're watching the gripping and then just constantly adjusting people I give you an example Jimmy Pedro Jimmy was one of the hardest when he was 19 years of age right so I was he always asking me to practice always so he's always on me all the time so I do ground work with him and could I put him on his back no I was all on him and and he'll tell you know but he was just wouldn't go he was just it was going to be great without a doubt all right so I wanted everybody on with him everybody so everybody went on with him you know and and so it only improved their game and it improved him and then with you know small technical things that have stayed with him that we were doing with the juji gami that was passed on to Kayla and then gone on you know to R and it's all small things that I can see sometimes that you know it's on what about the taosi he said he learned a lot from you from that thr and he does it differently and so I should mention that's one of the trickier uh throw I mean I don't I still don't understand it I don't understand so for people don't know it it it um boy how would you even explain it it doesn't make any sense it's uh when you just look solo the the movement you make is very it's quite simple but uh how you get to be off balance how you yeah uh actually get them to be thrown and when you do throw it successfully it looks like a whipping motion that's effortless it makes no sense it makes no sense other than it's every technique starts with the hands so it's what we call kazushi and you know you're pulling somebody off balance getting them moving pulling them off balance uh taoshi means body drop so it's basically uh two legs across your partner's body well I've got my back to you all right and I've already pulled you off balance with my hands and then I'm going to just Flex my legs up just as you're coming onto my back and uh and then you're going to go over you know if I coordinate it all right if it uh if it doesn't get coordinated right then you're going to come right on my back and try to rip my arm off you know so um yeah got to get it right what was uh if you can put convert to words uh some secret ingredients that allowed you to pull it off at the highest levels the T the hands start every technique uh so getting the repetition right first of all so you need uh to get the repetition right you need a good partner so uh actually training your partner to react in the right way is just as important as learning the throw so actually what happens is you know I we could get a lesson of beginners we teach the throw and then go right off you go and 90% of them will get it wrong because their partner's not reacting in the right way so half of it is to get the person to react as they should so if I was doing it with you you and I um first thing I'd teach you to do is to react the way I want you to react and then I'd react the way that you want me to react all right so then we'd have success with it rather than you leaning back in the wrong way or resisting or frightened you you're going over so you know so actually that's why nine s out of 10 people get the technique wrong it's actually fascinating to me because in the United States where I came up Judo I mean the level of Judo is not comparable to the level of Judo in the rest of the world um of course uh the the Pedro Center is an exception to that certain athletes yeah certain athletes like I mean what when I trained recently with with Jimmy Patriots like even like 16-year-old kids are just all deadly so it was terrifying uh but you know I remember the Russian national team came through Philadelphia and one of the things that really impressed me is just how much easier Judo was training Judo with them they moved correctly as like UK as the people getting thrown every aspect of their body movement was correct in terms of it felt right to be throwing them to be training with them everything about the gripping about the position of their hips about the shoulder everything it was it was fun it was was easy and like and I was felt like I was learning so I think all of that is loaded in I guess into proper training so you're developing through the throws you're developing right got to develop yeah and you have to develop um between you know I always had training partners that are trained with up to each Olympic Games and we um we worked together for the we did the skills together and then we um you know we we work together in order in order to make techniques work and we got it moving as quickly as we could and one of the worst things that I see is and I see a lot of YouTube stuff with um coaches here we go a don't even start me on that don't even start me on that but um you know the what you're laughing because you know what I'm talking about right okay you know I'm actually laughing because I'm enjoying you talking trash but uh but you're you're talking about technique uh yeah just well you know then you know the coaches and their clipboard guys you know with the clipboards and the stopwatches and you know they got these kids running up and down the mat and and then doing uchikomi of of something that's technically incorrect um you know 10 times and then running up and doing another 10 at the other side you know and actually mixing everything together and it's just a mess Techni technical mess that said some of it is conditioning type stuff that you were doing so what what what is that the hardest type of physical conditioning you were doing probably ran too much you know when I was a when I was a kid if I could go back now I wouldn't run as much and I ran hard and I ran strong and I remember doing London Marathon one time and uh I said I'm never going to do it again I never and then but I ran you know and I I I was trying to the problem was when I did the London marathon is I was trying to beat three hours it's a deser it's totally insane you know it was insane and I went out through half marathon in what I thought was a good time anyway I got to 16 17 miles and totally blw and so you went out too fast yeah I went out too fast and then you just I died going absolutely just I died Le I I I got in I I crossed the line I st remember seeing this bridge over there right and the bridge it was the Finishing Line over the bridge and I had to get it was the longest bridge I've ever ever walked over and like walk run like so I got over the bridge and I took one step over the the line like that and there was a guy over there and he was trying to rush everybody through you know and he was going come on come on come on people behind you get get your hands off me I said your hands off me now right there cuz we're going to fall out you know and uh and uh I couldn't move I I I couldn't move I was white and um it amazing you made it to the Finish Line though I did I got I got over there and um you know yeah Donald Duck passing me was was a was a tell oh there's a person dressed as Donald Duck Donald Duck yeah but the thing was I still crossed over 338 I crossed over 338 but I lost 38 minutes in the last four miles to that bridge longest bridge ever long see you regret the run so anyway I I would do the running a little bit differently but we ran we ran hard we the weight training we did good weight training it was all conditioned so I mean it was never the same training all the time so it was always um we'd uh have certain phases building up it was scientifically done it wasn't just out there run weight training Judo same Judo all the time it was always pretty scientific good variety it was a good variety and it had build up and it had a speed phase and it had a power phase and it had um you know a like a base condition what about the was there a a method to the madness there how much randor did you do a lot so the most important thing for me um I mean I see now that there's a lot of people out there that are not getting enough randor they're not randing enough and there's a lot of sports science people and they're they're running and they're weight training and they're they're doing it all to death and there's not enough Judo and the only ones you know like you have a look at some of the um the e block countries are getting together they're having these Mass camps and the Japanese they have you know just massive people that they can do they they're doing probably 50 60 rander a week wait what 50 or 60 a week wow the average person is getting together I mean when I was doing rander is uh when I went to Japan it was just purely for 60 Rand a week how much each one how long is it so they were 5 minutes then they're four minutes now but that's a lot especially given the level of the the competition there well you can do it in Japan because it's fairly light if they throw you they throw you you throw them so there's like a level of like you're moving at like a close to 100% but the actual power in the force is not quite different in uh Korea Korea was harder it was more physical so you couldn't do 50 rander in in Korea you do you die yeah so you do 30 randor wow but you need you need the randor and uh so I chase the randor so I chase them into training camps I trace them all over my country so I I was getting 40 to 50 a week in my club and then I would go to training camps and add more and I honestly don't think that they do enough now a lot of countries somebody who doesn't know randor is live training so yeah sparring was there a few people you remember that were just like really tough to go against you mentioned goldtooth is there others like it gold to is pretty horrific yeah he was oh you got him pretty I got him in the end and um yeah there like I iose I suppose I should say not just tough but just good training partners that you like great training Partners I remember when n and initiative was I mentioned him earlier said he was one of the best I mean he was just such great technician so I I would go there to his dojo and he'd ask me to practice and he'd always he'd finish the practice and you you know that he would always say another one we'll do another one right so you'd go a yeah because you had to make out that you you weren't that bothered that you had to do another one so you do another one back to back and then he goes sometimes let's do another one so you'd end up doing 15 minutes with the same guy who could possibly throw you at any time you know and and that was hard you know so but I remember those particular um uh guys and there were plenty of those what do you do with the exhaustion that you're feeling in those like how how deep did you go in terms of you dig deep and I I think that that was the great thing about having certain like European training camps were more physical so I remember you know that we would have uh European training camps where you'd fight Germans and then the Dutch and then the French and then you know the Russian or the you you'd have all sorts different styles and people to fight and uh that that was something then you you'd have to dig in at a different place come out of there where do you go mentally when you you how many times have you gone there where like you're really in deep Waters exhaustion wise in in competition actually competition it's happened you know so sometimes you go past where you forearms are absolutely blown I remember the final of um Czech uh tournament that we had and I fought a Frenchman uh in the final and my forearms were so blown I couldn't shake his hand mhm you know and then I remember they they were solid absolutely solid and they had lactic acid in them and uh and I remember I stood on the Rostrum this uh and and they were giving me things and I couldn't grip them so I was saying put it under my armpit or you know chin like that trying to hold his he couldn't hold anything you know and so there there are times when I really had to go really deep I remember fighting two East Germans uh the same day one of the competitions and uh the number one and the number two East Germans and um that was another day where I had to really dig deep that's the the fascinating thing about some of these tournaments is if you get if you go full distance and several matches in a row the way you're seeing in the finals are two people that have like fought a lot that day yeah and we have golden score now you know so we we see a lot of guys you know that going into golden score and they've done one contest at four minutes and then they go another four minutes and then you know we've had some go into a third four minutes that is all back to back it might be in the first round it might be in the final you know and we've got some now that are coming out and you can see the stats and the the on that winning golden schore so we got Japanese Hashimoto he's the Japanese representative now uh instead of Ono because Ono's finished so Hashimoto's coming out he was in a tournament last week to look up yeah just have a look at him so Hashimoto is in white here all right and uh there's great example there well I'm glad we got onto that you know so I mean he has got great technique hasimoto effortless all right so you can see exactly what we're talking about that great um timing and again you know sometimes he backs them up to the edge and then he'll wait for them to come back in towards they don't want to step out to get a penalty I guess that's a Cross grip totle should I see that wrong yeah Cross grip different grips oh great examples there just just what we were talking about making it look so easy wow so he's going to be their representative uh at 73 kg looking him back him up again M and again just catching him as as he pushes back so push push push and then yeah Action Reaction at his best there yeah and uh slight change of Direction he sometimes goes down onto his knee there which is siosi it turns from taosi which is springing up to siosi that's going down oh the the title of the video is uh his titos is a work of art yeah this is uh him at best showing him uh doing what he does Best But he had to go three times into golden score last week and dig deep and lost one of them I think

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Published: Wed Apr 24 2024