◇ Jaehong Park > CBS Radio Bout Today’s Bout Class is a day early. Today’s guest is a man who is truly worthy of the title of our program. He’s the first Korean judoka to win a Grand Slam, and he’s also a gold medalist in the men’s 73-kilogram freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Welcome, everyone, to your favorite man of the match, Lee Won-hee. Welcome.
Wonhee Lee> Hello. Nice to meet you.
◇ Jaehong Park> Professor Jin and Director Kim.
Joong-Kwon Jin> The name of the program is perfect, Hanpan.
◇ Jaehong Park> The man of Hanpan.
◆ Kim Sung-hoe> Speaking of bouts, didn’t you play a lot of bouts at the 2006 Asian Games?
Lee Won-hee> I also had a bout at the Asian Games.
Kim Sung-hoe> How many games did you win in one game?
Lee Won-hee> I won all but one game at that time.
Jin Jung-kwon> I won all but one game. Even in 2004, when it was almost over, we were almost at the end of the game, and we were ahead in points. But usually, when you take a big gamble, you take a risk, so how about that?
Wonhee Lee> But that’s because my style is always in the habit of finishing in one game, so even if I’m winning, I keep attacking and throwing techniques.
◇ Jae-hong Park> We also have a special guest today, Won-hee Lee, who is a professor at Yongin University and coaches and coaches, and she returned to active duty after 15 years. 15 years. And recently, in Mongolia, she won against a player who was 20 years younger. An inspiring comeback. How did you decide to make a comeback after 15 years?
Lee Won-hee> I was in Taiwan for about two years.
Park Jae-hong> In Taiwan.
◆ Wonhee Lee> Now, there’s a saying that you become more patriotic when you go abroad, but I’ve always loved my country so much, actually. It’s too much to wear the flag.
Park Jae-hong> The national team.
◆ Wonhee Lee> It was a dream, but even before that, I loved Korea, Korea, a little bit. From my childhood, my mother always taught me that I was born as a man and always have to do something for the country, so I hate Korea, I hate it, and I hate talking about helicopters and things like that.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Helljoseon. Because of you, Joseon is hell. You should think about changing it.
Lee Won-hee> No, then what should we do for our country, if there is something that is not good for our country, if there is such a feeling, but now it was very difficult during the coronavirus outbreak, so the people are suffering so much, and I saw it just like that.
Park Jae-hong> To give hope.
Lee Won-hee> So I thought, “What am I doing now?” So what can I do. It’s really soulless to cheer around.
Park Jae-hong> Fighting.
◆ Wonhee Lee> These stories made me very angry. I shouldn’t be angry, but I have a lot of fever, so I was thinking, “What can I really do?” If I challenge again, it will be a very big message.
Jaehong Park> To the people.
◆ Wonhee Lee> So I thought, “Let’s actually try to do it, not just talk about it, but let’s actually try to do it.” But it was very hard to make that decision, because it’s so hard, you know, because I’ve done it.
Kim Sung-ho> If you do it for 15 years, you’ll keep exercising.
Wonhee Lee> No, I didn’t do it consistently.
Joong-Kwon Jin> Isn’t it necessary to lose weight or something like that?
◆ Wonhee Lee> That’s right, because I weighed 84~85 kg at that time.
◇ Park Jae-hong> When you retired.
◆ Kim Sung-hoe> You’re in the 73kg class.
Wonhee Lee> It’s 73 kilograms.
◆ Kim Sung-hoe> It must have been difficult to lose that much weight.
◆ Wonhee Lee> It was hard.
◇ Park Jae-hong> But has there ever been a case like this in the history of judo globally? You’ve been retired for 15 years and now you’re back in action.
Wonhee Lee> There are quite a few athletes who come back from retirement, but it’s a bit disappointing.
◇ Park Jae-hong> I think I can do it in 2-3 years.
◆ Wonhee Lee> I have 2-3 years, but I’m the first person like me to challenge again after decades.
◇ Park Jae-hong> You even won the first Grand Slam in Korean judo history, the Asian Games, and all four of these competitions, and you even won an Olympic medal, so you’ve accomplished everything you wanted to accomplish, and if you have a little time, you can also coach Korean judo.
Wonhee Lee> Yes.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Do you still have any strength left in your body?
◆ Kim Sung-hoe> In the case of Kim Yeon-ah, she said that she really didn’t want to go back after she finished and retired, saying that she didn’t want to look at the rhymes on the field and didn’t want to do anything.
Wonhee Lee> That’s true for most of them.
Kim Sung-hoe> Much more painful.
Wonhee Lee> I know that feeling very well because it’s so painful, I know.
◇ Park Jae-hong> So, Korean gold medalists in judo, like Lee Won-hee, but if you look at the interview of Choi Min-ho, who won the gold medal in Beijing 2008, he said, “It’s so hard to train in Korean judo, I’m going to die training like this.
Lee Won-hee> Always.
◇ Park Jae-hong> So, Won-hee Lee must have had a lot of moments like, “I’m going to die training like this,” right?
Wonhee Lee> There were many.
◇ Jaehong Park> But you want to do it again.
Wonhee Lee> But I don’t think this is my heart, it feels like a mission.
Jaehong Park> A sense of mission?
Wonhee Lee> That’s why it’s not without a Christian aspect.
◇ Jaehong Park> Christian. Our professor, Jin Jung-kwon, was so surprised that he dropped something.
Wonhee Lee> I dropped it.
◇ Jaehong Park> You dropped it, Professor Lee Won-hee. No, it’s me, Dr. Jin Joong-kwon. Then change your robe again. What did your family say?
◆ Wonhee Lee> Honestly, my mom and dad told me not to do it, because they were very supportive and suffered a lot when I was working out.
Jin Joong-kwon> That hardship again.
Wonhee Lee> He said, “I can’t do it again,” and now my father says, “You should do it.
Park Jae-hong> Baby, you should do it. I’ve done enough.
◆ Wonhee Lee> But my wife is very active, and my wife is also a table tennis coach for elementary school students.
◇ Jaehong Park> You’re a former table tennis player.
◆ Wonhee Lee> In the table tennis world, in the elementary school world, it is called a hiding place, and it is a very good win-making machine, so it wins everything wherever it goes. Now I’m a coach and I keep them exercising.
◇ Park Jae-hong> It might have been better to play table tennis. Judo, judo. If you’re around, you’ll hear the juniors and seniors, like Choi Min-ho, who won a medal together, or Kim Jae-beom, who won a medal together. Don’t they say, “Hey, Won-hee, do you still have something left to achieve?
Wonhee Lee> What are you doing, stop it. I’m worried about you, now. You’re getting hurt.
Park Jae-hong> You’re going to get hurt, right?
◆ Jin Jung-kwon> Isn’t the injury problem what you’re really worried about? Because when you’re young, you don’t know, but when you get older, your body is probably.
Wonhee Lee> I could really feel it, and when I caught it with college students, it felt a little bit like a stone, and I didn’t have that feeling before, and I felt like I was going to get hurt.
◇ Jaehong Park> Professional athletes feel that if I catch it just right, I can pass it in a few seconds, or I have to go to the judgment today. This time, it was last month. You competed in the men’s 73kg Grand Slam in Ulaanbaatar at the International Judo Federation, and I heard that it was also a very big competition.
Lee Won-hee> It’s a high level competition with a lot of Grand Slam points.
◇ Park Jae-hong> To get points for the Olympics.
◆ Wonhee Lee> So, from June of this tournament, 100% of the Olympic points will be counted. Before that, only 50% will be counted, but from this tournament, 100% will be counted, so I decided to leave this tournament now.
◇ Park Jae-hong> You were a professor of judo at Yongin University. Didn’t your students say, “Professor, don’t you think you should give us a seat,” or something like that?
Wonhee Lee> No, I don’t talk about that.
◇ Park Jae-hong> You don’t talk about it because you’re scared?
◆ Wonhee Lee> No, more than that, I didn’t think about it that way, but I thought it was really great, because they are also so hard now, the exercise itself, judo, but when I saw them doing this at this age, losing weight again, I could see them looking at me with a really respectful eye.
Kim Sung-hoe> Since it’s a player versus player, do you use force when you hold it, do your students?
◇ Park Jae-hong> How dare you, Cheongchul-eram.
Wonhee Lee> So when they play among themselves, they don’t do it hard, but when they catch me, they do it harder, but I like it better.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Is that so? Look at this guy.
Wonhee Lee> I like that better.
Kim Sung-hoe> When I was learning from the professor, I would have been careful, but now that we’re playing against each other, I’m not going to dare to show it.
Jungkwon Jin> It must be like having a palm time.
◇ Jaehong Park> I see, so when your students come at you with such force, you tend to deal with them head-on, right?
◆ Wonhee Lee> I’ll do it head-on, with all my strength.
Jaehong Park> With all my might.
◆ Wonhee Lee> If I lose once, I don’t know, I just turn around and go home, and I’m still angry.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Competitiveness.
Wonhee Lee> Because he lost.
Jin Jung-kwon> If the student wins, isn’t it good? You should be happy, as a teacher.
◆ Wonhee Lee> That’s why I’m angry with myself. I should have done this at that time.
◇ Park Jae-hong> What type of player is Lee Won-hee? Is she a hard worker, a genius, or a natural?
Wonhee Lee> I’m an effort type.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Are you a hard worker?
Wonhee Lee> I’m a very hard worker.
◇ Jaehong Park> I see. There is no natural talent.
◆ Wonhee Lee> But I think so, because most athletes do everything because they have good motor skills, but there are many people who have much better motor skills than me.
◇ Jaehong Park> But there are a lot of 73 kilograms, so there are a lot of 73 kilogram body types. I heard that there are a lot of challengers, but how is it?
Lee Won-hee> The 73kg class is the most numerous in the world.
◇ Park Jae-hong> How many athletes?
Wonhee Lee> The thickest layer of athletes and the most athletes are in 73kg.
◇ Park Jae-hong> I’m also 73 kg. Isn’t our director, Kim Sung-hoe, also 73 kg?
Kim Sung-hoe> I hope so…
◆ Wonhee Lee> If you exercise, you are now 73 kg. There are a few people who don’t exercise.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Isn’t Prof. Jin in the 60kg class?
◆ Jin Jung-kwon> 60 kilograms. That’s about right.
◇ Park Jae-hong> So. If it’s 73 kg, aren’t there many domestic athletes who are good at it?
Lee Won-hee> That’s right.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Then you beat those athletes. Then what is your goal for the next Olympics?
Wonhee Lee> I want to compete in next year’s Olympics.
◇ Jaehong Park> Paris Olympics?
◆ Wonhee Lee> I’m aiming for the Paris Olympics.
◇ Jaehong Park> You’re not going to the Asian Games this fall, but you’re going to the Paris Olympics.
◆ Wonhee Lee> Yes.
◇ Jaehong Park> Okay. Then there are also a lot of our athletes who are very good in the 73kg category right now. You know them all, maybe they are your students. How about that?
Lee Won-hee> They are all students, juniors in school.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Junior in school, junior in Yongin University.
Wonhee Lee> Another junior in high school and a junior at Yongin University.
Kim Sung-ho> So, are you training together or separately?
Wonhee Lee> Sometimes we do it together, sometimes we do it separately. I have three kids now.
◇ Jaehong Park> Three kids in the meantime, 15 years.
◆ Wonhee Lee> So I have a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and now a 4-month-old baby.
Kim Sung-hoe> I’m sorry if you’re having a hard time raising them. Aren’t you going to leave me to train?
Park Jae-hong> Aren’t you going to escape to Taereung Athletic Village?
◆ Lee Won-hee> But I can’t escape.
◇ Park Jae-hong> To avoid the Childcare Olympics.
◆ Lee Won-hee> I’ve been watching my kids while exercising, and now we’re doing it together.
Jin Joong-kwon> It’s harder to watch the kids.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Right now, listeners are cheering too much, and Noh Kyu-hong also applauds Lee Won-hee’s courage. Also, 1865 is too good, please be careful of injuries. Mr. Bori said that you look so fit on the screen, but how many hours of exercise do you do a day? Shouldn’t you do more since you’re back?
Wonhee Lee> I can’t do more.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Is that so?
◆ Wonhee Lee> Then I can’t recover again. So now I’m doing it by controlling my rest and recovery well.
Jin Joong-kwon> He’s 20 years younger this time. Should I say he’s younger?
Park Jae-hong> Athlete, athlete.
◆ Jin Joong-kwon> You won the first game against a player. How did you feel then?
Wonhee Lee> I felt good, but I was a little disappointed because I wanted to throw in a nice bout like this.
◇ Park Jae-hong> You wanted to throw.
◆ Wonhee Lee> But nowadays, the rules have changed, and if you defend with your head, you are now given a foul because it is dangerous, so I walked on my thighs, and he defended by hitting his head on the mat, so I won a foul victory with a foul victory, but in fact, when I held it, I heard that I should win like this with this tactic, a certain tactic, but when I held it, the strength was too good. I’m a little disappointed that it wasn’t a little tactical like that, and I think the players these days are very good physically, but now that I’ve been there, in the past, if I fell on the second time, I was buried, but I just praised me for winning 1, and everyone encouraged me like this, so I was a little nervous, and I wanted something.
◇ Jaehong Park> I see, but there was a fight for the first row of the stands. It seems that the International Judo Federation is also very happy to have Lee Won-hee back.
◆ Wonhee Lee> When I started preparing, I realized that the two cameras were stuck together.
◇ Park Jae-hong> In the process of preparing.
◆ Wonhee Lee> In the process of preparing, two cameras were stuck to us while we were warming up, and we kept filming it, and after the first game, we had already edited it and posted the video. And now it’s like that. The officials and the executive team were watching it very closely.
Kim Sung-ho> No, players who retire after a long career usually stay active, and when they retire, how old do you usually keep them, if you do it for a long time.
Wonhee Lee> Usually, the longest players are in their mid-thirties, early to mid-thirties.
Dr. Kim: That sounds like a lot of hard work.
◆ Wonhee Lee> That’s right, right now, An Paul is a little over thirty, and he’s thirty-one or thirty-two, and he’s still talking about it, but he can’t recover now, so it’s too hard.
Jaehong Park> Actually, I think An Paul’s name is also a name we’ve heard a lot for quite a while.
Wonhee Lee> He’s a very sincere and hardworking player.
Jaehong Park> I see.
Jin Joong-kwon> You’ve met some overseas players, right? What did they say?
Lee Won-hee> All the overseas players my age are managers. My hair is now gray from being a coach.
◇ Park Jae-hong> I wanted to go to the coach’s office with you, but no, I’m going because I’m a player. Isn’t that right?
Lee Won-hee> But even though I’m now wearing a uniform and entering as a player, they said they couldn’t believe it. Are you really a player or are you entering now?
◇ Park Jae-hong> Real, real. Hey, Wonhee. Come on.
Wonhee Lee> He said, “Are you really doing it?” He said it was amazing. And this is in the executive department, and they’re refereeing, and they’re all like that, my friends, my friend was watching the referee again, and he felt really bad when I lost.
Park Jae-hong> I don’t know if I should raise my hand or not. I want to raise Won-hee Lee’s hand, but I wish I had done a little bit.
Wonhee Lee> I have compassion, I have compassion, but I could feel it while playing.
Park Jae-hong> Yes, if you go to the Paris Olympics later, I think you can make a movie. I think it’s very cool that you made the last challenge of the champion.
Jin Joong-kwon> But isn’t there that feeling? Still, if I was 100 when I was in active duty, what percentage of the gauge do you think it is now?
Wonhee Lee> I think it’s about 40.
Jung-Kwon Jin> Will this go up a little bit if you practice, continue.
Wonhee Lee> I don’t know, but I think I should try it.
◇ Jaehong Park> You’ve already pulled out the knife, and you just did a bout interview with the camera today, so it seems like you’re at the point where you can’t give up.
Wonhee Lee> I’m on parental leave right now.
◇ Jaehong Park> Did you take a parental leave?
◆ Wonhee Lee> So I took a parental leave from school to train in earnest.
◇ Jaehong Park> As a professor, you can go back after a year, depending on the training situation.
Wonhee Lee> Yes.
◇ Jaehong Park> So, after the game, you decided to take a parental leave and do it properly.
Wonhee Lee> Yes.
◇ Jaehong Park> So now that you’re aiming for the Paris Olympics next year, when is your next game?
Wonhee Lee> I’m aiming for the first national team selection in November.
◇ Park Jae-hong> The first national team selection in November.
◆ Kim Sung-ho> Is there anything I need to do to get into that national team selection? Do you only play against people with the same score? If you could tell me the rules a little bit.
Lee Won-hee> The national selection tournament is open to players who have won prizes in domestic competitions, and in my case, there are many of them now, so I can participate as a player.
◇ Park Jae-hong> You are eligible to compete.
Wonhee Lee> That’s why the first round of selection is now important, so you have to place first or second in the first round of selection to be prioritized for the international competition.
◇ Jaehong Park> Then you can earn points to qualify for the Olympics.
Wonhee Lee> To get out. But what’s important is not the domestic competition, but the international competition, because we need to get Olympic points to go to the Olympics, and we don’t have any Olympic points right now.
Park Jae-hong> Our player Lee Won-hee.
Kim Sung-hoe> You’re in a desperate situation to somehow get a good score in this first selection and play a lot of international competitions to accumulate points.
Lee Won-hee> It’s a desperate situation.
Jin Jung-kwon> But first of all, the domestic selection is not a joke.
Wonhee Lee> That’s right.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Then, to go to the international competition, isn’t there only one domestic player in the 73kg class? Is it two?
◆ Wonhee Lee> The Olympics is one, and now the national team is selected first and second, so these two… So, two people per country can go to this international competition.
Jaehong Park> Two people can go. Then you have to eat within those two.
◆ Wonhee Lee> If you are in the top 2, you can leave the convention first.
◇ Jaehong Park> So, in the 73kg class, Korea’s 1st overall and 2nd overall. So it’s more difficult than the national first place in the SAT, actually.
Jin Joong-kwon> That’s also the SAT I’m taking at this age.
◇ Park Jae-hong> But now, Kim Yeon-ah has a very famous meme, and there is a meme that asked her what she was thinking when she was stretching, and she said, “I’m just doing it.” Isn’t it a very legendary internet meme, and it’s circulating a lot because it’s a meme. For Lee Won-hee, don’t judo players have such training as pulling and pulling? What do you think about when you train?
Wonhee Lee> I’m a little bit different from Kim Yeon-ah, so I don’t think about this and that when I’m doing the whole thing, I just do it, because I have to, because I have a lot of thoughts, actually. I have to do this, but I don’t want to do it, and I think about a lot of things, but I think that’s why it’s important, because you just have to have a discipline, a rule, and you have to do it, and you have to do it without emotions and all that, and you have to do it regardless of whether you want to do it or not, regardless of how your body feels, but this is what I’m talking about because you just do it without thinking about those things, so you just have to do it, and I think about it a lot while I’m doing it. I stretch.
Jaehong Park> What thoughts.
Lee Won-hee> Then I think about where the muscles are stretched now, so I focus on that, and I tend to think a lot of details like that. I do the same thing in judo, and I try to do it more accurately, and all athletes do the same, but I focus a little more, and I focus a lot on each muscle.
Park Jae-hong> Muscle by muscle.
Wonhee Lee> I tend to do it while thinking a lot about where it’s written and where the strength is going in and where it’s going out.
◇ Park Jae-hong> I see, the Korean judo legend. I’m meeting Wonhee Lee. When did you start practicing judo, and what was your first encounter with the sport?
Wonhee Lee> I started when I was in the fourth grade of elementary school.
◇ Park Jae-hong> In the fourth grade? By accident?
◆ Wonhee Lee> At that time, my father was thinking about what kind of exercise I should do because I’m now athletic and active, but I saw that the juniors in judo were very polite.
◇ Park Jae-hong> In the eyes of my father.
Wonhee Lee> So I thought, “I should let them do judo, because it helps a lot. So he told me to go to a judo gym, so I went by myself.
Park Jae-hong> You went alone?
Wonhee Lee> I went alone. My dad is not the type to take me around like that.
◇ Jaehong Park> He’s not a gentleman.
He said, “Where are you, go,” and I went alone. So I had an older brother who was a little skinny and wore a green belt, so I said, “I want to try judo,” and he said no.
Jaehong Park> Why not?
Lee Won-hee> I said no because I don’t have the skills anymore, so I have to learn, so I was bored after practicing for two weeks.
◇ Park Jae-hong> I want to knock you down quickly.
Wonhee Lee> I thought I could win.
◇ Jaehong Park> That one, the one with the green band.
◆ Wonhee Lee> He was so skinny. Bo-seop is my brother. I was in the fifth grade.
Park Jae-hong> Bo-seop, a fifth grader. It seems like 4th grader Lee Won-hee could pass for 5th grader Bosup.
◆ Lee Won-hee> But it’s been a month since he didn’t ask me to do it. I wanted to do it so badly, so I made him do it, judo.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Try a spill.
◆ Lee Won-hee> But I couldn’t even play the game, and I couldn’t figure out what to do. I have strength, but I don’t know this way, so I don’t have skills.
◇ Park Jae-hong> So Bo-seop was right.
Wonhee Lee> So I was so angry that I would come home from school at 10 or 11 o’clock at night to beat him.
◇ Jaehong Park> That’s right, first of all, young Lee Won-hee’s goal was Bossup’s older brother.
Kim Sung-hoe> Bosup is the one who beat Lee Won-hee in one round when he was still in school, so he must be going around like this.
Jin Joong-kwon> Then what happened to Bo-seop?
Lee Won-hee> I worked so hard that I won later.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Later.
Wonhee Lee> He won later.
Park Jae-hong> Did your brother become a professional player as well?
Wonhee Lee> No, I don’t know after that.
◇ Jaehong Park> Or did your brother study hard and become a judge?
Wonhee Lee> No, I don’t know what happened after that, I’m so curious.
Jin Joong Kwon> Listen to the broadcast and contact me.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Bo-seop said that he misses you, Won-hee Lee. You haven’t been able to contact him since then, right?
Wonhee Lee> That’s right.
◇ Park Jae-hong> But I remembered your name. That’s amazing. Lee Won-hee has a competitive spirit.
Jin Joong-kwon> He’s the man behind the Olympic gold medal.
◇ Park Jae-hong> That’s right. I’ll give him a pension of 10,000 won.
Lee Won-hee> I fell in love with judo because of him.
◇ Jae-hong Park> That’s right, Bo-seop from the fifth grade.
◆ Wonhee Lee> Now that I think about it, I’m really grateful to him. I always think about living without forgetting my gratitude.
When you become an athlete, do you have any Korean judo legends that you consider as role models, such as the Korean judo legend who raised Wonhee Lee?
Lee Won-hee> I only do my own judo.
Park Jae-hong> Really?
◆ Lee Won-hee> I don’t report to anyone, I just don’t know, I’ve been doing it for a long time. I don’t watch other people do it, I just do my own thing, so I’m not interested.
Jaehong Park> I’m not interested.
Wonhee Lee> There was a very famous medalist at that time, but no one knew about it. I didn’t know even when I came.
◇ Park Jae-hong> Really. It’s just me, Lee Won-hee.
Kim Sung-hoe> You didn’t watch the video or anything like that.
◆ Wonhee Lee> The world championship… I mean, I have a video of the world championship, but there were a lot of foreign athletes, at that time. I watched that video, I watched it a lot, but I don’t remember who it was, I don’t remember his name, I just saw his technique.
Park Jae-hong> Someone who was just judo.
Jin Jung-kwon> It was Ha Young-joo, the first gold medal in the Olympics. Olympic gold?
Jaehong Park> Wang Bal. Ahn Byung-geun.
Jin Joong-kwon> Ha Young-joo.
◇ Jaehong Park> Ha Young-ju. Another listener question. What do you think is more important for an athlete, physical strength or mental strength? And in the case of archery, snakes are also reported, so what are your tips for training mental strength in judo?
Wonhee Lee> Mental strength. Mental strength is very broad. It’s very broad, but usually when people say mental strength, they say it’s mental strength to overcome something very difficult, and I think now that I think about it, mental strength is just basically, if you have good physical strength or physical condition, you have confidence. Then I think that mental strength is better, basically. There are some cases where the body is good but the mental strength is weak, not like that, but just basically, I think that mental strength cannot survive if the physical strength is not supported, so you have to create physical strength by exercising at first, and then the mental strength grows in the process.
Jung-Kwon Jin> You know, in judo, there are some techniques that you’re good at, right? You know, when you try to do it, but it doesn’t work, and it’s like, “No. 1 doesn’t work, no. 2 doesn’t work, no. 3 doesn’t work,” right?
Wonhee Lee> Yes, but what is it that masters are good at? Judo is mostly like this, and I tend to stick to one or two techniques a little too much, but I like a variety of things.
Park Jae-hong> Speaking of pitchers, you have a style with many changeups.
Wonhee Lee> I have a lot of techniques, and as Professor Jin said, if this technique doesn’t work, this technique. If this technique doesn’t work, then this technique. A player who can quickly find out where the opponent’s weakness is while doing that is a great player.
Park Jae-hong> By trying.
◆ Wonhee Lee> Yes, because if you do it, he will now say, “I did this, I did this, I did two or three things,” and if you go this way or that way, the recipient will also be confused. At that time, the perfect opportunity comes out, and the person who catches it quickly is a good player.
Kim Sung-hoe> It’s a physical battle and a psychological battle.
Wonhee Lee> That’s right.
◇ Park Jae-hong> I see. What was your most memorable match in your career?
Wonhee Lee> The most memorable game was when I won the first national team selection.
Park Jae-hong> That time.
◆ Wonhee Lee> That’s because I’m now 66kg, before I was 73kg. But at that time, I lost about 8kg to 10kg. 8kg if I controlled it, 10kg if I didn’t control it, but I lost that 10kg in 10 days. But at that time.
Jaehong Park> You lost 1 kilogram a day, then.
◆ Wonhee Lee> Let’s lose 1kg a day, but there’s always 2kg to 500 left before the day before, and then it’s too hard to lose that, because it’s too painful, and then to lose that, in the middle of summer, you have to wear a parka, you have to wear a mask, you have to wear a hat, you have to be that hard, and then you sweat, and then it’s hard to come out, but after I come out, I sweat well. Then you go straight into the sauna, and at the end, if you go into the sauna and hold it, your back is really burning, and it’s hard to breathe because your stomach is sticking to your back. And now, when you stay in and you can’t stand it because it’s too hot, you come out a little bit, and when it cools down a little bit, you go back in. If you repeat this, how do you feel afterward… 안전놀이터
Jaehong Park> It’s almost time to finish, what can I do?
Wonhee Lee> You can feel the skin of your head sticking to the skull, and then you get goosebumps and realize that it’s all gone.
◇ Park Jae-hong> We will support Korean judo legend Lee Won-hee, who decided to try again. Thank you.
Lee Won-hee> Thank you.