Olympic bronze medalist in judo Tamerlan Bachaev managed to turn his small stature from a conditional disadvantage into an absolute advantage, the athlete’s coach Kirill Dyche said on .
Bashaev is 27 years old. Weighing 126 kg and measuring 175 cm, the athlete won bronze at the 2020 Olympics and silver at the 2021 World Cup.
– Not big, so small. It was hard for him! But over time, such metamorphoses occurred that he became accustomed to fighting the biggest. And the older ones aren’t used to fighting him. Therefore, over time, its small size turned from a conditional disadvantage to an absolute advantage.
If you have been used to having a 40 cm high chair all your life and one day you have to sit on a 20 cm high chair, you will feel uncomfortable. The people who come to fight him feel pretty much the same way. It’s uncomfortable with him. It’s very uncomfortable. At the same time, he is a fast, very strong, agile and thoughtful athlete. It is difficult to find a sparring partner of the same level and size.
Heavyweights are aliens. Everything is wrong with them. Athletes should adjust their weight before competitions. The heavyweights don’t know what it is. This is why they constantly face harsh criticism from their weight-conscious colleagues. But on the other hand, heavyweights are people who can go out on the mat and face a person, for example, one and a half times heavier. Of course, heavyweights are their own planet.
We say that speed doesn’t have to be the fastest, but it has to be the smartest. Of the majority of today’s leading heavyweights, he is the most agile with high speed,” Dyche said in a special report by Anna Andronova “At 100” on .
Source : MatchTV
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