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Jimmy Pedro

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  1. “Okay. Wow. I didn't know that was an actual guy, Fuji. Our brand is named after the mountain Mountain Fuji. Okay. But this is a different guy. His name was Fuji.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I think you have to go by that because there's so many phenomenal judo players that have come through the system, have spectacular judo have won countless major events, but the ability to pull it together, right, at those magical moments, the pinnacle of the sport, the world championships, the Olympic Games, improving that you can do it time and time again makes you unstoppable. It makes you the best. There was a guy back in the 70s and 80s by the name of Fuji and he won four world championships back to back. And back then, the worlds was every two years. So here he was a four-time world champion. That's eight years at the top of the sport. He never won an Olympic medal. He never went to the Olympics. So there's a guy who missed out on Olympic greatness, but was arguably the best competitor back in that period.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Other reason why he's not is because No Mora is a 60 kilo player. He was three time Olympic champion. So Noora, I mean, unless Ono's going to stick around for another three years and win again in When again here in Paris, then he'd match what No Mora did. But three time gold medalist in judo in a lightweight division, that's pretty spectacular.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Right now, Shohay Ono, who's two time Olympic gold medalist. That's his favorite throw. And there's tons of highlight videos on the IJF and Judo Fanatic showing how he does his Uchimata. And it is quite different than everybody else's. But it's unstoppable when he comes in. Nobody stops it. He's won two golds in a row at the Olympics. I think maybe in the last eight years, the guys lost two matches. You know, he's just incredible.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Hard to make that contact with upper body to your back. You have to turn your back on the throat as well. So how does it work? It's definitely sort of a throw where you need to start pulling your opponents upper body towards you, right? So their upper body starts coming towards you. Your legs go towards them as your body starts to go into the throw. So your head is going to go left, let's say. Your legs are going to go to the right. Your body's partner is going to start to lean towards you. And just as you start to get there, momentum coming forward, your leg is going to sweep up underneath theirs, pick them up onto your hip, right? And then the finish of the throat is a twist. And a lot of times the good judoka will leave their feet when they do the throw. So both bodies are in the air together and then the thrower comes down on top of the person being thrown.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “It's probably one of the most difficult throws to learn as well because it is so complex. You do have to stand on one leg, balance on one leg, you know, swing your other leg through the middle, hold your opponent up in the air. And it's hard to.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Uchimata, it's the one that seems to have the most amplitude. A person goes the highest. You see a leg swing through the middle, the person doing the throw. There's a leg swinging through the middle. The other person definitely goes head over heels, flat on their back. It's probably the most dynamic pretty judo throw there is.”

    2021-10-31 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source