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Ashley MacKenzie is one of Britain's | 0:00:05 | 0:00:07 | |
most successful, explosive martial arts fighters. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
When I'm fighting, I'm so buzzed up, | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
I just want to go out there and just pull something. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
But he's also been banned from his sport four times for misconduct, | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
and he and his mum have not always seen eye to eye with judo's bosses. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:28 | |
I don't do judo. I hate the fucking sport, do you know what I mean? | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
I wish if he didn't have to do judo he could do something else, | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
but Ashley can't do nothing else. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
Now he's been given one last chance to make the Olympic squad... | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
I'm a-getting a little semi on. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
-..but getting there will demand extreme training... -Ah! | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
-Now suplex me. -100 kilos! | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
..a new level of self-control... | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
All right, you're telling me at the end of the day, I can't have sex? | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
..and his best ever competition performances. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Yes, he's in the final! Yeah! | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
He went a long way, and he's still going a long way. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
-Ashley! -Yeah? -Are you bloody ready? | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
HI-FI: # Rough up I'm coming to get you... # | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
21-year-old Ashley MacKenzie is not the easiest person to live with. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:33 | |
"Make sure you shut the front door on your way out, Ashley." | 0:01:33 | 0:01:40 | |
-Does it work? -No, because he left it open yesterday. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
-I didn't mean to leave it open. -He left it open like this. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Does that worry you? | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
Course it does! I could have come home to an empty house | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
and it would have been his fault. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
Ashley's always struggled with his concentration. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Aged 11, he was diagnosed with ADHD. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
Ashley didn't want to be different. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
He didn't want to have all this medication | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
or going to the doctors or tests. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
He didn't want it all. He just wanted to be normal. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
ADHD messes with my head style, telling you. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
Like, you could just be out on a high | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
and then you'd just be on a low, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
and then you can be naughty and not knowing that you're being naughty. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Because of his condition, Ashley left school with only one GCSE. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
The place he knew he could shine was the judo mat. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
Within 10 years of starting out, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
he'd become one of Britain's best young fighters. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
What a sport can do for you is open different doors | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
and once you open different doors, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
you go through them doors and you open more doors for yourself. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
Things open for you, if you try hard. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
And I've tried, like, endeavour best, do you know what I mean, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
at what I'm doing, and this is why I'm here today, innit? | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
I like to think, anyways. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
Now, Ashley's on the brink of realising his judo dream - | 0:03:03 | 0:03:09 | |
competing at the 2012 Olympics. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
It's been decided he needs to move out of his West London home | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
and go to live in Kent with his coach, Chris. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
Chris is going to be a lot different. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
Chris will make sure that he's up, he's running, | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
where in here, I have to work. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
I'm out the door by eight o'clock. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
Ashley could then be lying in bed all day, you know, skip judo, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
just like a kid would dop school. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
Are you going to miss him? | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
Um...yeah. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Yeah, I will. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:42 | |
Yeah, I will miss him. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
-Just be good, Ash. -Yeah, I will. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
I know I'm not going to see you a lot now, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
but just don't forget to phone, all right? | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
-I will do, I will do. -And just behave, all right? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
Remember, Chris is different from you. Don't forget, yeah? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
Ashley, phone me. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
-Love you, bye! -Bye! | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
-Bye! -Bye! | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
# Hi-ho, hi-ho | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
# Off to work I go... # | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
I've looked after Ashley all his life | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
and then to pass it to somebody else, it's really hard. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:16 | |
Basically, got to just try and change my heart. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
It's going to be a different kind of atmosphere. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
I've obviously trained full-time before, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
but it's just going to be a bit more intense, really. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
He desperately wants it. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:34 | |
I don't even want to think about if he didn't get it. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
I don't want to answer that. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
-I really don't want to answer it. -Why? | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
Because I'm scared. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
He deserves a chance, Ashley deserves a chance. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Ashley's coach Chris was himself a judo champion | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
and fought for Britain at the Moscow Olympics. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
Excuse me, Ashley. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Although he's taken other judo fighters in before, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
none of them have had a disciplinary record as bad as Ashley's, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
whose poor timekeeping is notorious | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
and who's been banned repeatedly for drinking and getting into fights. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
I have good friends in the sport. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
He said, "What on earth have you done?" | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
I said, "Well, I've done it." | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
He said, "You must be raving mad!" | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
I said, "No." | 0:05:32 | 0:05:33 | |
I said, "You know, I just can't help it. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
"I think he's a good lad, so I'm sorry, I know you disagree, | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
"but I think he's a good lad." | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
What's it like having Ashley in your house? | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
It's annoying. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
It's annoying! | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
Why's that? | 0:05:50 | 0:05:51 | |
Because... | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
He keeps on saying rude words. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
And fighting me and donking me on the pillow! | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
And hurt my brother. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:03 | |
And hurt my brother. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
-Stop it. -Does he shout out your mum a lot? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
That's it, go on! | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
That's it, go on, get him off, James! Get him of! | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
Nice. Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin! Spin, go! | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
Judo requires fighters to keep precise control over their weight, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
their fitness and their mental alertness - | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
extremely difficult for someone with ADHD, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
especially for Ashley, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
who now needs to cope without the only drug that can help him. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
Sometimes I want it, because it chills me out, mellows me out, | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
like my all bones is just all relaxed and that. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
It's good, I like it. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
I did like it sometimes | 0:06:46 | 0:06:47 | |
when I was on it | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
but now I'm not allowed to take it | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
due to judo and drug control, | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
so I'm off it now. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
Chris is preparing Ashley for the year's biggest tournament - | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
the Paris World Championships. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
He's concentrating on two things - | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
trying to increase his commitment to training... | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Stay up! Get that arm under his. Get it under! | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
..and making sure he gets enough sleep. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
When he's in my house, he gets no choice. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
He's too busy training. He comes in, he's tired. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
He's tired. He's finished. He goes to bed. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
All right, you're telling me at the end of the day I can't have sex...? | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
Yeah, you can, of course you can. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:27 | |
Of course, I would do it all night. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
No, you wouldn't, not before a tournament. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
Is it OK for Ashley to have sex the night before a fight | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
if he gets it all done in two minutes? | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
It takes me two minutes anyway, bruv! | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
I was just going to say! | 0:07:40 | 0:07:41 | |
Don't take me more than two minutes to have sex, you know! | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
Skip the condom, skip the foreplay and I'm doing it. That is it. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
-Can I ask you a question, then? -Did I do it? | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
-Can I ask you a question? -Go on, then. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
-I was just trying to think ahead there. -So, what if... What if... | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
What if...you don't have a competition for a period of time, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:04 | |
do you reckon they should go out and enjoy themselves of a weekend? | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
Sensibly. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
So does that mean come in at, like, half-eleven, or does that mean...? | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
It depends what your idea of sensible is. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
I don't think coming in... | 0:08:16 | 0:08:17 | |
..a late night out, just a night out. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
I don't think coming in at three o'clock in the morning is sensible, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
because I think stupid things happen. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Therefore all athletes shouldn't be able to... | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
We're not talking about all athletes. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
We're not talking about all athletes. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
We're talking about high-performance athletes. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
So everyone who's in Olympic form of stage, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
or world or European or competing internationally... | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
-They wouldn't be out. -Should never, they would not be? -No, they wouldn't. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
Not the good ones, | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
not the ones that are in with a chance of winning a medal. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
I was just wondering. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
Three days later, and just before he flies out | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
for a pre-World Championship training camp, | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
Ashley's paid the penalty for not taking Chris's advice. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
Look at that eye, though, bruv. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
What happened, Ashley? | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
I wouldn't call it a fight. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
I got hit, hit at the weekend, on a Saturday. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
A guy just come from, like, sideways | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
when one of my mates were having a fight | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
and then come from sideways and just kind of...just levelled me. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
Obviously I don't want it to happen, know what I mean? I shouldn't be... | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
I'm a professional athlete and all that and it shouldn't happen. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
I mean, it's over. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
That's it done. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
Another step, my eye's going to get better, that's it, change. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
I mean, I know when it's time for parting, when it's time for change. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
Know what I mean? So, it's good... | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
I sat him down and just said, you know, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
"This can't happen any more. This can't happen any more. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
"One, you're putting yourself at risk of either being stabbed | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
"or hit over the head, not going to the Olympic Games. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
"Is that what you want? | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
"Are you so desperate to spend a night in a club | 0:09:57 | 0:10:01 | |
"and get pissed and come back with a black eye? | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
"Are you that desperate to do it? Do you need to do that? | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
"Because if you need to do it, you're not in the right sport. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
"You're not having the right mental attitude | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
"to go to the Olympic Games. Stop it." | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
An impressive performance in Paris is one of Ashley's best chances | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
of securing that Olympic place. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
He's leaving Chris to join the British squad | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
for a short training camp before the competition. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
-Who are you meeting here? -My mum, just to say goodbye for three weeks. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
Don't want to go. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:38 | |
We'll see. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
What do you think she's going to say when she sees your eye? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
Admit she knew it was coming, probably, but we'll see. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
Hopefully she'll be all right about it, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
but we'll see. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
Hello. Hi. You all right? Yeah? | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
You've got a black eye! You've got a sucker! | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
Was that judo? Yeah? Through a move? So what happened? | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
Basically a guy just come in from around, from the side | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
-and hit me like twice, basically. -What for? | 0:11:15 | 0:11:16 | |
Just, like, a little scuffle. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
All right, have a good time. Love you very much. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
Go and do your best, yeah? All right? Be good. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
-Be good, look after him. -Yeah, I will. Don't worry. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
Make sure he don't get in any trouble. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:28 | |
Oh, I'm going to go, I'm going to cry! | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
You have an Ashley off the mat and then you have an Ashley on the mat, | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
and the Ashley on the mat is confident, | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
he knows exactly what is expected of him | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
and he does do the job. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
The Ashley off the mat, | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
if people don't know him and understand him, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
that's where it becomes difficult | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
and I think that's what I'm worried about. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
At the training camp in Barcelona, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
some of the world's best judo fighters have gathered | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
and will sparring non-stop for a week. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
The whole idea of these training camps is to get | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
as many fights as you possibly can | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
and stay at that high intensity | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
for as long as you possibly can. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
That is what you're trying to simulate, a high-level tournament. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
That level of intensity, you'll be used to. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
You be able to deal with it, you'll be able to soak it up, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
you'll be able to feel what the other person's like. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
The training give Ashley the opportunity to test himself | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
against some of the athletes he'll be facing in Paris. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
The biggest test in his weight category | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
is the Japanese fighter and world number four, Yamamoto. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
Yamamoto is one of Ashley's biggest rivals. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
He's probably one of the best judo players under 60 kilos in the world, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:16 | |
and he's got fantastic technique as well - | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
just about one of the most difficult players to beat. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
Time! | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
-Is he good, Ashley? -Yeah, strong in the grip. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
Like I said, he only caught me at the last one. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
He's, like, one of the best, you know what I mean? So... | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
Fuck it. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:42 | |
ASHLEY SINGS: # Just the other day | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
# I ran into this beautiful lady | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
# She asked me my name... # | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
'Ashley's room-mate, Winston Gordon, | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
'is one of the squad's senior and most responsible members | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
'and has learnt how ADHD affects Ashley.' | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
-Is he always like this, Winston? -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
He's hyper, I'd give him that. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
-You think anyone else could handle it? -Um... | 0:14:14 | 0:14:19 | |
I don't know. I don't... | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
All right, Ash, turn that off. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
Before, I didn't used to like him but, you know, knowing him | 0:14:24 | 0:14:29 | |
and being with him, I know how he works, you know. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
Yeah, we just get along. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
Why didn't you like him before? | 0:14:37 | 0:14:38 | |
You know, I think it was just hearsay, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
you know, what people were saying. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
Yeah, you can't judge a book by its cover. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
I know when he's going to switch off. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
I know he's going to switch on. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
When I know he's going to switch off, I'm like, "Ashley, come." | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
You know, "Let's... Can't do that, let's do something else." | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
Try to take his mind off it, rather than encourage him and wind him up | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
and get him hyped, you know. It's not... | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
I'm kind of his guardian angel on his shoulder, saying, | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
"Listen, come on, let's go and do something else." | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
Booyah! Ha-ha, yeah! | 0:15:15 | 0:15:20 | |
Know that, we're the football team out here, you getting me? | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
It's the end of the training camp and Ashley's been joined | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
by Winston and some of his team-mates | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
to celebrate his birthday. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
MANIC LAUGHTER | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
Alcohol makes it harder for Ashley to control his ADHD. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
There's not a bit in my head that says to me, "Right, stop." | 0:15:48 | 0:15:53 | |
It's just, "Go on, just do it, it doesn't matter." | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
So there's, like, two devils and not one angel. | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
When I'm sober, there's one angel, there's one devil. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
Oi. I might have to smack someone's faces. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
-I'm going to smash your face in. -I'm sorry... -No, no, no. -Hey! | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
-I swear on my life. -He's only being, like... | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
He's not being a bad guy, he's just trying to be friendly. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
I'm trying to say, "Chill out, close your fists." | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
-He's being a nice guy... -I'll bang him on his chin. -Let's walk. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
-I'll walk, for you, but... -You know what? Don't even bother. -Bruv, I'm not... | 0:16:26 | 0:16:31 | |
-You've got what-you-call-it on your shirt. -Let me tell you. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
-No, no, no. -That's mad, boy. -But the thing is, bruv... | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
-That's mad, boy. -No, no, no, it's not. -It's mad. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
-We're going somewhere. -Let's go. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
-What happened? Serious. -I don't even know, like. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
Just a little scramble happened and, like... | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
I don't know if it was Burnsie or Fallon. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
Everyone just gets scrambled | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
and I was like, yo, in the middle of it, kind of thing. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
Not in the middle of... I don't know how I was involved. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
Do you know what? I can't even tell you what happened. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
HE HOCKS AND SPITS | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
Fucking... I swear on my mother's life, | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
I'm going to punch him in his fucking nose. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
Prick. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:13 | |
I felt that Ashley's physical preparation was poor | 0:17:13 | 0:17:18 | |
but then when he celebrated his birthday | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
and made an arse of himself | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
in preparation for the World Championships? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
Not me, no. Poor. Really poor. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:32 | |
-How do you like Paris, Ashley? -It's all right, it's a nice town. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
Not better than London but, you know what I'm saying. It's all right. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
Um... | 0:17:44 | 0:17:45 | |
I know a couple of words. Comme ci, comme ca. Oui. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
Je m'appelle Ashley McKenzie. Ca va? Ca va bien. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
Nah, it's all right, it's not the best. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
I'd rather be in New York or somewhere. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
But the World Championships is here. I'm going to have to put up with it. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
The World Championships is the biggest judo competition of 2011. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:12 | |
A good performance here would almost certainly secure Ashley's Olympic place. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:18 | |
SAXOPHONE PLAYS IN BACKGROUND | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
It's massive. But this is the World Championships. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
17,000 seats. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
All on me! | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
It's massive! Absolutely massive. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
You are going to get every nation wanting their players | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
to be at the forefront of that Championships. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
It is an incredibly difficult event to win before the Olympic Games, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:56 | |
quite simply because generally you put your Olympic team | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
in that World Championships. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
MUSIC: "Ernie" by Fat Freddy's Drop | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
When competing for Great Britain, Ashley gets extra coaching | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
from Go Tsunoda, one of the world's best judo technicians. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
-How's Ashley? -He's very good. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
Very sharp, very sharp. Very concentration. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
His head is very clear. Focus, focus, focus - first fight. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:55 | |
I think... We think | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
that if focus first fight, go, | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
he can take his lead, maybe...he has possibility, | 0:19:58 | 0:20:04 | |
he can take medal, this World Championship, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
but first fight is very important. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
In order to compete, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
Ashley has to make sure he weighs no more than 60 kilos. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:14 | |
What's it feel like, making weight? | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
Horrible, cos you just feel dehydrated and making weight, | 0:20:24 | 0:20:30 | |
you just feel, like, dehydrated. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
Can't really drink that much so I try to drink as less as I can. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:40 | |
-How tempting is it to guzzle that whole thing, Ash? -Oh, unexplainable. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:46 | |
-Is it easy to have a piss? -It's very hard. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
Trying right now, not coming out. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
This is the biggest competition of Ashley's career. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
Chris has come out to Paris to make sure the pressure | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
doesn't unbalance his focus from concentration. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
-You're here, this is the moment, right? -Mm. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
Nobody's like lumping pressure on you. You know that there's pressure. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
It's dead simple, mate, but this is when you stand up to that line | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
and when you stand up to the mark. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Believe you can do it. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:23 | |
What you must remember, when he's standing there like that | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
and you're standing there, he's only thinking the same as you. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
-Yeah. -He ain't thinking no different, he's thinking, | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
-"Shit! He looks good." -Yeah. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
And you're thinking, "Shit, he looks sharp." | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
You have to let him know that you're not going to lose. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
You must let him know that you're not going to lose. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Once you get over that, Ashley, I kid you not, | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
it's there for the taking. I kid you not. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
Love you lots. Good. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
Cor, that's tough. I don't like that. Don't like doing that. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
You've got to try and sort of... You know, not overload him | 0:22:01 | 0:22:06 | |
but try and make it quite clear that he has to step up to the mark now. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:12 | |
CHEERING | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
HORNS BLARE | 0:22:19 | 0:22:20 | |
Come on, Ashley, OK? Confidence, confidence. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:27 | |
100% attention to your judo, OK? Come on, turn round. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
Ashley's first fight is against North Korea's Kang Ho Song. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:41 | |
Do your judo, enjoy. Come on. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
Ashley, come on. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
Play. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
-GO: -your focus, Ashley. Come on, boy. Keep at him. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
Move, move, move, down a bit. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:54 | |
The objective in judo is to throw your opponent on his back | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
without leaving the yellow square. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
Good, good, good. Keep going. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:03 | |
'All I can hear is Go, his instructions.' | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
But that's it, that's all I can hear. And I'm so... | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
I just want to jump on the guy and just do what I'm doing. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
But I can't, there's nothing in my head. It's just empty. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
I try to be so focused and that's the way you've got to be. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
Go on, Ash. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
Confidence, confidence. That's it. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
Yeah! | 0:23:28 | 0:23:29 | |
He pushed, drove and actually forced the score | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
and got a better score than he would have done. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
Down, down, down. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
It was so hard as a first fight. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
My energy was just sucking up, sucking up | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
and I felt, near enough, on the verge of death but I was so buzzed still | 0:23:47 | 0:23:53 | |
but it was like my mind was up there, but my body was down here. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:59 | |
And it was so hard in my muscles and I just felt, | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
"I'm going to be sick." | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
First fight under your belt at the World Championships...is huge | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
but you know, that's the start. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
That is the start. It does get a little hotter. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
How did that go for you? | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
It was all right, man, but I feel so sick right now. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
I've got Dioralyte, and this. Terrible. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:35 | |
My belly just keeps puking up a lot. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
-Why? -Nervous. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
You have, well, nerves and... | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
..just pressure, really. I've got to perform, you know what I mean? | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
HE RETCHES | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
Oh, fucking hell. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
For a place in the quarter-final, Ashley faces Yamamoto, | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
the Japanese fighter he sparred with in Spain. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
Winning this fight would be the highest achievement | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
of Ashley's judo career. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
-This music. -Hmm? -Listen, music, you know. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
OK, come, come on, come on, Ash. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
'When we stand next to each other, he looks at me. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
'I'm not looking away first, I tell you now. I'm on it. I'm ready.' | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
The first 30 seconds of that contest, absolutely phenomenal. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
Couldn't ask for any more. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
Turn. Dance, dance, dance. Come on, boy. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
Get those hands on, Ashley. Go on, Ashley! | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
I thought, I'll just give it to him, trying to move. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
I know he doesn't like people that move a lot, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
I thought I'll just give him everything I have. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
'Yamamoto was perplexed, he didn't know where to go, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
'where to turn or grip. In fact he didn't even have hold of Ashley. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
'Ashley was absolutely on fire.' | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
Yes! | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
'The gripping was fantastic, the dragging him to the floor,' | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
fantastic, cos you're showing you're dominant. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
Go on! | 0:26:34 | 0:26:35 | |
First, all pulling, second. One, two. Come on, Ashley. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
'After the first 30 seconds Yamamoto closed everything down, | 0:26:42 | 0:26:47 | |
'didn't give Ashley a chance to get his grips. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
'Therefore started to turn the contest around in his favour.' | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
Go on, Ash! | 0:26:57 | 0:26:58 | |
I'm trying to move him, move him, move him but his physical body | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
is just strong and I was coming to a point | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
where I'm just overstretching and he's controlling me. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:14 | |
He's not fourth in the world for no reason. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
'When Ashley started going back and not able to get his grip, | 0:27:20 | 0:27:25 | |
'it forced Ashley outside of the area, getting the second penalty.' | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
Bloody hell. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
'Getting a second penalty against a player of that class' | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
is a serious uphill battle. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
Don't worry, Ashley. Come on, boy. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
He's just got to throw it at him now, he's got absolutely nothing to lose. He's got to let him have it. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:55 | |
Ashley, come here. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
Let him have it, Ashley! | 0:27:59 | 0:28:00 | |
When Ashley stops at the end of the contest and crouches down | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
you know what goes through a fighter's head. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
"Dammit, I wanted to do more." | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
And when you come off thinking that, you've not done enough... | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
Why, why haven't you done enough? | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
Why? His condition wouldn't allow him to do what he wanted to do | 0:28:19 | 0:28:24 | |
and I think his condition could have been better. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
Small margins, you know, like getting pissed on your birthday, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:39 | |
you know, week before the World Championships. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
What the hell... what are you doing? | 0:28:41 | 0:28:43 | |
You know, that's stupid, stupid behaviour | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
and it makes me cross when I see it. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
Is he OK, Go? | 0:29:10 | 0:29:11 | |
No. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:17 | |
That was a loss that cracked me, I was heartbroken. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:25 | |
I think I was crying for about a day. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:28 | |
I was destroyed, thinking, "Why? Why can't I beat him? | 0:29:30 | 0:29:35 | |
"What is wrong with me?" | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
Happy days, mate, happy days. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:41 | |
-I'm more happier than you. -I know you are. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:43 | |
Ashley's back at Chris's house. He now has five weeks to prepare | 0:29:49 | 0:29:52 | |
for the World Cup in Liverpool - his next big chance | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
to make an impression on the Olympic selectors. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
# Learning to breathe again | 0:29:58 | 0:30:03 | |
# For the first time in so long now. # | 0:30:03 | 0:30:09 | |
Just try and maintain that pace, Ashley. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:12 | |
What it does, it just switches him off. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
I don't want him switched off at the minute, | 0:30:24 | 0:30:26 | |
I want him switched off. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:28 | |
He has got to start to feel good about himself | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
and he'll be in a good place. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:32 | |
With Ashley, you need to take a back step, | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
give him a little bit of space. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
If you don't, and you get on his case, he'll go the opposite. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
That's just his disability. It's the ADHD kicking in. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
He will be very confrontational and go, "Oh, yeah? Right! | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
"I'll be off doing that then!" | 0:30:48 | 0:30:49 | |
That's the wrong thing to do. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
I have a tendency to take a back step, | 0:30:51 | 0:30:53 | |
and when he's got Ashley time | 0:30:53 | 0:30:56 | |
he gets the chance to put his head in gear. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:59 | |
When he does, and gets focused on his training, he's a dangerous boy. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:05 | |
He is going to be, I think, a little bit special. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
He has learned a tremendous amount from those World Championships. | 0:31:08 | 0:31:13 | |
That was good, wasn't it? Nice. Nice run. You kept that pace. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:19 | |
I fucking love this shit. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:20 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
It's not only for the running, I just think about things. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:26 | |
I'm thinking about my celebration if I win in Liverpool. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:30 | |
I think about stuff like that. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:32 | |
It's ego, isn't it? But I just think about different things. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:36 | |
'Outside of judo, the things that changed Ashley | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
'after that World Championships,' | 0:31:40 | 0:31:42 | |
he seemed to be slightly more focused on behaviour, | 0:31:42 | 0:31:48 | |
on punctuality, on... | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
his general outlook changed. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:55 | |
I don't want to go to school. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
Yes, you can, bruv. | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
-Hold on. Are you ready? We are going to run this shit. -No! | 0:31:59 | 0:32:03 | |
-Do you like it when Ashley takes you to school? -Yeah. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:08 | |
I think, you know, to say it how it is, Paris made him more responsible, | 0:32:15 | 0:32:19 | |
made him more focused, made him think, "You know what? | 0:32:19 | 0:32:24 | |
"Hey-ho, I've got to do this, get up, train harder, get the medals, | 0:32:24 | 0:32:30 | |
"that he has asked of me." | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
Believe in himself more. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:35 | |
'With two weeks to go until the World Cup, | 0:32:40 | 0:32:42 | |
'Ashley is spending a weekend | 0:32:42 | 0:32:44 | |
'visiting both his parents back in West London.' | 0:32:44 | 0:32:48 | |
What is it like having Ashley back? | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
No, it is good, it is good, it is good to see him. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
I see him for a couple of days. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:56 | |
-MUSIC PLAYS -Listen to the music for the next couple of days, | 0:32:56 | 0:32:59 | |
probably the same tunes over and over again. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
It is good for him to come home. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
He needs chill-out time, and to relax and be with the family. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:09 | |
Are you all ready to go out? | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
Do you know where he is going tonight? | 0:33:13 | 0:33:16 | |
Yes, I think he is going up to his dad's. | 0:33:16 | 0:33:19 | |
Ashley does try to go and see his dad when he gets home. | 0:33:19 | 0:33:22 | |
Sort of, like, spends a bit more time up his dad's. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:25 | |
-See you later, Mum. -See you later, have fun. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:28 | |
Hello? Yo? | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
Joker. Let's see. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:42 | |
This is my dad. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
Everyone calls him Resident | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
because he has been around the area for so long. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:54 | |
This is my good dad. He helped, obviously, with my judo and that. | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
With money, he has supported me from day dot. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
He has supported me from the start to the finish. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:06 | |
And he is still supporting me, giving me money and that. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:10 | |
-He has come to watch me one time as well. -Just one time? | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
-Yeah, once. -OK. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:17 | |
Here comes the family. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:18 | |
What's happening? What's happening? | 0:34:20 | 0:34:23 | |
Look at him! | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
Hey, rock star! | 0:34:29 | 0:34:30 | |
-Can I ask who you are? -I am Barry Dread. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:37 | |
Painter and decorator, exterminator. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:42 | |
Charge £5 an hour! | 0:34:42 | 0:34:44 | |
ALL LAUGH | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
I am a Rastaman. | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
What's going on, little man? Cool. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
You see that? Rastafarian! | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
You see that? Eh? | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
Hey, Selassie hair! | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
MEN LAUGH AND CHATTER | 0:35:02 | 0:35:05 | |
-What do you think of what he's achieved? -I think it's great, man. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:09 | |
It's a great...a great achievement. He's one in a million. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
You know what I mean? There's black kids who don't have what he have, | 0:35:12 | 0:35:16 | |
and don't go as far as he go. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
He went a long way and he's still going a long way. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:22 | |
You know what I mean? So, yeah, I'm glad for... Touch me, nigger. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:26 | |
-Touch this! -LAUGHTER | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
-You know Ashley for a long time. -Yeah. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
-You know what trial and tribulation he's been through, don't you? -Yes. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:35 | |
And I know what you and your Susan go through as well. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:38 | |
And this is why we are one family. | 0:35:38 | 0:35:41 | |
One family! | 0:35:41 | 0:35:43 | |
-Look at all them! -Right, come on! | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:35:45 | 0:35:48 | |
Bang, bang! | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
Ashley. Ashley, my boy. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:58 | |
Yeah, my boy. My boy. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
Cheer the man! | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
-COACH: -Yes, yes, yes! Step! Step, step, step! | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
Drop! Yeah, drop! | 0:36:08 | 0:36:11 | |
Yo! Lovely one, good boy! | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
You're king of the castle, I know. Yes. | 0:36:13 | 0:36:17 | |
-BOY: -You're a dirty rascal! > | 0:36:17 | 0:36:19 | |
You're the king of the castle. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
You're the dirty rascal. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:25 | |
There's a week to go until the World Cup in Liverpool. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:28 | |
Chris has been working on Ashley's fitness. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:31 | |
He's also brought in world master champion, Dickie, to help out. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:35 | |
Go on, Ashley! Good, son. Go on. Good boy. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
Move, boy! Do not be letting him have it! | 0:36:38 | 0:36:42 | |
That's better, much better. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
Get up, James. Good. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
See that? Much, much better. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
Lovely body. Good boy. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
-Lean, mean fighting machine. -HE LAUGHS | 0:36:52 | 0:36:55 | |
Dickie's a world master champion. Load of respect for that. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:59 | |
-Respect, you get me! -Yeah! | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
-What does he need to do for Liverpool? -He needs to change nothing, | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
because he is doing everything right at the moment, yeah? | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
All he needs to do is go out there | 0:37:08 | 0:37:10 | |
and fight the fight he always fights and he will win. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
He's a champion in his own right, yeah? | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
I've got a lot of respect for this boy, cos he is good. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
He's a good judo boy. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:20 | |
A lot of people underestimate him, but he can produce it on the day. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:23 | |
My dog! My dog! | 0:37:23 | 0:37:25 | |
'Ashley's asked his mum to come and watch him in Liverpool. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:34 | |
'She hasn't seen him fight for two years.' | 0:37:34 | 0:37:38 | |
Why do you think Ashley wants you to go so much? | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
One, because I can't afford to see him when he goes abroad, OK, | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
and I do work and I do have another child to look after. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:50 | |
Um, and two... | 0:37:50 | 0:37:53 | |
I think this is, this is quite a big competition, it's a World Cup, | 0:37:53 | 0:37:59 | |
so I think, depending on the result of this one, will be whether, | 0:37:59 | 0:38:04 | |
you know, I don't know, whether he'd get to 2012 or not, to be honest. | 0:38:04 | 0:38:08 | |
Do you think he wants to make you proud? | 0:38:08 | 0:38:11 | |
Yeah, I think he's always tried to do that. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
I think it is kind of like a reassurance thing, you know, | 0:38:14 | 0:38:17 | |
cos when Ashley was really little, and he, you know, | 0:38:17 | 0:38:20 | |
he used to try and do tasks at school and things like that, | 0:38:20 | 0:38:22 | |
you know, he needed reassurance all the time. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
Like, "You're doing well, Ashley." "Carry on, you're good at this." | 0:38:25 | 0:38:29 | |
And when he wasn't as good at things, it was really hard for him. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:33 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:38:43 | 0:38:44 | |
This is what you could say... is Ashley's life. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:51 | |
God, memories, eh? | 0:38:53 | 0:38:56 | |
This was mouth-to-mouth. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:57 | |
This was because I had to learn mouth-to-mouth, | 0:38:57 | 0:39:00 | |
because Ashley did stop breathing and I had to do that. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
Oh, shit! | 0:39:05 | 0:39:06 | |
"To Ashley..." | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
Basically, this was when he used to go, this was when I put Ashley | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
into a psychiatric unit, Collingham Gardens, for six months. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:18 | |
And they were the ones who diagnosed Ashley with HDAD | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
and conduct disorder and all the other ones that went with it. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:25 | |
And I sent him things like that, you know, "I love you." | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
-Sorry! -That's OK. -Oh, my God! | 0:39:33 | 0:39:36 | |
To think, what, I put my son in a psychiatric unit. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:41 | |
I had to do it! No-one was listening to me! | 0:39:41 | 0:39:45 | |
Ashley's behaviour was getting a lot worse | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
and everybody just kept saying | 0:39:48 | 0:39:49 | |
he was playing on my emotions and he wasn't. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:52 | |
There was things wrong with Ashley. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:54 | |
And I couldn't bear it, I couldn't do it, it was really hard. | 0:39:55 | 0:40:00 | |
When you have a child with special needs, | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
no-one ever tells you how to cope with that. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
As a mum, your natural instinct is to be a mum to a kid, | 0:40:07 | 0:40:11 | |
not to be a nurse, or a psychiatrist, or a psychologist. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:15 | |
You know, it's none of them things. You have to be taught that. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:19 | |
I had to be taught... | 0:40:19 | 0:40:20 | |
I had to try and discipline him in a different way to other kids, | 0:40:20 | 0:40:24 | |
you know, which was hard. | 0:40:24 | 0:40:26 | |
And the place had iron bars at the windows | 0:40:26 | 0:40:30 | |
and it would have a padded room, for when the children, you know, | 0:40:30 | 0:40:35 | |
get a little bit upset, they can put them in there. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
You know, and it was good, | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
I'm not saying that what I did was a bad thing, | 0:40:40 | 0:40:43 | |
cos it taught me a lot of things that I didn't know about my own son, | 0:40:43 | 0:40:47 | |
you know, and then it explained a lot of things, | 0:40:47 | 0:40:49 | |
the reason why Ashley was acting the way that he did. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
That's life, innit? You've gotta... Well, you've gotta deal with it. | 0:40:58 | 0:41:03 | |
If it gets dished out to you, you've gotta deal with it. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:07 | |
And I think Ashley's dealt with it pretty good... | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
..you know? | 0:41:11 | 0:41:12 | |
It's Ashley's last training session before the World Cup in Liverpool. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:22 | |
Just pulling there, boy. There, now flex, mate! | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
100 kilos! | 0:41:30 | 0:41:33 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
One, two, three, four, five... | 0:41:35 | 0:41:39 | |
30 seconds! | 0:41:40 | 0:41:42 | |
What are you thinking about? | 0:42:00 | 0:42:02 | |
Boy, it's a lot of things, d'you get me? | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
Just the weekend. | 0:42:11 | 0:42:13 | |
See, I want to win it, innit, like? | 0:42:13 | 0:42:16 | |
So it kind of gets hard a bit, d'you get me, as, er...? | 0:42:16 | 0:42:22 | |
Obviously, as the week goes on, d'you get me? | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
And the training you've got to do for it, | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
which gets harder and harder, really, doesn't it? And, er... | 0:42:28 | 0:42:31 | |
D'you know... | 0:42:33 | 0:42:34 | |
The mental side's just... just doing my thing, really, um, | 0:42:34 | 0:42:38 | |
trying to...trying to be the best. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:41 | |
Trying to succeed, d'you get me, to the fullest? | 0:42:41 | 0:42:45 | |
And, er, obviously, training like this is going to make me, | 0:42:45 | 0:42:48 | |
d'you know what I mean, reach my targets? | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
But at the end of the day, it's still hard. It's still like | 0:42:51 | 0:42:54 | |
you miss your family, you still miss your friends, d'you get me? | 0:42:54 | 0:42:57 | |
But judo has helped you get control of your life, hasn't it? | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
Yeah, judo's given me a mad booster to my life, innit? | 0:43:00 | 0:43:04 | |
Like I'm not the tallest of guys, | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
so I will say, like, give me Yellow Pages to kiss a girl, innit? | 0:43:06 | 0:43:10 | |
Let me put it in them kind of terms, so it gave me another step, | 0:43:10 | 0:43:14 | |
d'you get me, it gave me high heels on my feet, d'you know what I mean? | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
It gave me a pavement instead of walking on the road, d'you get me? | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
And, er, that's where it took me, innit? | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
It's took me to another light, I see different things, | 0:43:25 | 0:43:27 | |
I see different people, I see rich people, I see poor people, | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
I see good things, I see bad things, and it's made me change in myself | 0:43:30 | 0:43:34 | |
to want to be a good person. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:36 | |
I don't want to be looked, "He's got ADHD and he's the bad person!" | 0:43:36 | 0:43:40 | |
No, I was the bad person, I've changed now. Now I recognise me. | 0:43:40 | 0:43:45 | |
Now take photos of me and ask for my autograph, | 0:43:45 | 0:43:48 | |
cos that's the person I am now. I would've been signing my autograph | 0:43:48 | 0:43:52 | |
on the piece of paper to get away from the police on bail, | 0:43:52 | 0:43:56 | |
cos that's what judo has done for me, it's made me hit another light. | 0:43:56 | 0:44:02 | |
Hit another step. Hit another wish. | 0:44:02 | 0:44:06 | |
And that's what will keep coming, through and through. | 0:44:06 | 0:44:10 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:44:10 | 0:44:12 | |
SEAGULLS CALL | 0:44:15 | 0:44:16 | |
Susan, hold on. How are you feeling? | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
Um, really nervous. | 0:44:25 | 0:44:27 | |
-Yeah? -Yeah. I've already been sick this morning | 0:44:27 | 0:44:31 | |
after I tried to eat my breakfast and I threw it up, | 0:44:31 | 0:44:34 | |
so, no, I don't feel too good at the moment. It's just nerves, innit? | 0:44:34 | 0:44:38 | |
I need to find out where I'm going. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:40 | |
It's bloody big, I can't believe how big it is! | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
Oh, my God, look at it! | 0:44:44 | 0:44:45 | |
Oh, bloody hell! | 0:44:49 | 0:44:50 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:56 | |
'I know when that boy is ripe.' | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
When I handed him over to go, there was no stone left unturned. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:07 | |
Every stitch was in the suit. | 0:45:07 | 0:45:10 | |
Every stitch. And, you know, | 0:45:10 | 0:45:14 | |
I couldn't have done any more to have got Ashley | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
in the condition that he was. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:19 | |
It felt amazing just being there warming up. Just the atmosphere. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:25 | |
It was amazing. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
# In this world of calamity Dirty looks and grudges and jealousy | 0:45:28 | 0:45:32 | |
# And police weh abuse dem authority | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
# Media clowns we nuh-know 'Bout variety, boom | 0:45:35 | 0:45:38 | |
# The youngest veteran A go murder dem slow | 0:45:38 | 0:45:40 | |
# Ragamuffin sent to call me From the bush bungalow | 0:45:40 | 0:45:43 | |
# Unnu watch mek I clear out my voice now Figaro | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
# Emerge from the darkness With me big blunt aglow | 0:45:46 | 0:45:48 | |
# Di hammer dem a slam And spectator get low | 0:45:48 | 0:45:51 | |
# Some bwoy could a big Like Bam Bam Bigelow | 0:45:51 | 0:45:53 | |
# Bust off trigger finger Trigger hand and trigger toe | 0:45:53 | 0:45:57 | |
# A two gun me have Me buss dem inna stereo | 0:45:57 | 0:45:59 | |
# Cos I got to keep on walkin' On the road to Zion land... # | 0:45:59 | 0:46:04 | |
I'm just jamming, just listening to my music. | 0:46:04 | 0:46:09 | |
And when I get out there, I'm on, man. I'm on it. | 0:46:09 | 0:46:12 | |
-He's coming on. -Come on, Ashley! -Come on, Ash! | 0:46:12 | 0:46:16 | |
-ANNOUNCER: -Ladies and gentleman, next on the mat two, | 0:46:16 | 0:46:18 | |
Ashley McKenzie from Great Britain. | 0:46:18 | 0:46:22 | |
SHE SQUEALS | 0:46:22 | 0:46:24 | |
Come on, Ashley. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:26 | |
I cheered him. | 0:46:26 | 0:46:28 | |
Ashley's first fight is against German champion Robert Kopiske. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:38 | |
I thought, "Do you know what? | 0:46:38 | 0:46:40 | |
"This is for the crowd, this is for the people. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
"I want to show them I'm number one | 0:46:43 | 0:46:45 | |
"and I'm going to show you lot a performance today." | 0:46:45 | 0:46:47 | |
Come on, Ash! | 0:46:50 | 0:46:53 | |
As I felt weakness, I thought I'd catch it and that's when I threw him. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:58 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:46:58 | 0:47:01 | |
Oh, shit. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:14 | |
He won it. He won his first one anyway. | 0:47:16 | 0:47:19 | |
That's a good sign. | 0:47:19 | 0:47:20 | |
My mum has been there through thick and thin for me. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:26 | |
She's been through special school, | 0:47:26 | 0:47:28 | |
with me being in trouble with the police, | 0:47:28 | 0:47:31 | |
trouble with girls, | 0:47:31 | 0:47:33 | |
trouble with big men, | 0:47:33 | 0:47:35 | |
trouble in school | 0:47:35 | 0:47:37 | |
and I am sorry for all that. | 0:47:37 | 0:47:41 | |
But my way of repaying her | 0:47:41 | 0:47:45 | |
is for her to say to anyone on that street, | 0:47:45 | 0:47:49 | |
to all them people that I've been bad to, | 0:47:49 | 0:47:51 | |
"I'm very sorry, but I'd like to tell you my son has just got to 2012." | 0:47:51 | 0:47:57 | |
And that would make me one happy fucking man. | 0:47:57 | 0:48:01 | |
The next fight his... The next fight's 100%. | 0:48:02 | 0:48:06 | |
Who is the next fighter? | 0:48:08 | 0:48:09 | |
The French boy. | 0:48:09 | 0:48:12 | |
The French boys, eh... | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
The French is a high level. | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
Many judo guys are high-level, so he know very well the judo. | 0:48:18 | 0:48:23 | |
He know very well the tactic, he know very well the judo, | 0:48:23 | 0:48:26 | |
so I think this fight is very important, I think. | 0:48:26 | 0:48:29 | |
I have nothing to say for Ashley, just better keep going, | 0:48:34 | 0:48:38 | |
because now he enter his world. | 0:48:38 | 0:48:40 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
By mid afternoon, Ashley's through to the semi-final | 0:48:46 | 0:48:49 | |
and he's within touching distance of a silver medal. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:53 | |
Come on, Ashley! | 0:48:57 | 0:48:58 | |
Yeah! Oh... | 0:49:00 | 0:49:03 | |
Come on, come on, just get one score. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:14 | |
That's all you need. Just one. Just one. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:17 | |
CALLS OF ENCOURAGEMENT | 0:49:20 | 0:49:23 | |
Come on, Ashley! | 0:49:23 | 0:49:26 | |
Come on! A minute to go. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:29 | |
There's still no score. | 0:49:29 | 0:49:31 | |
The French guy, he was very strong, | 0:49:34 | 0:49:35 | |
but towards the end of the fight, I felt him getting weaker | 0:49:35 | 0:49:38 | |
and I thought if I hooked him, it's either me or him, | 0:49:38 | 0:49:43 | |
but I felt stronger than him when I hooked him and I thought | 0:49:43 | 0:49:46 | |
if I just give him more of a pull than he gives me | 0:49:46 | 0:49:50 | |
then I could, kind of, pull him over and throw him. | 0:49:50 | 0:49:53 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:49:53 | 0:49:55 | |
YES! YES! | 0:49:55 | 0:49:59 | |
And I thought, "I'm in the finals now." | 0:50:01 | 0:50:05 | |
Six, six, six seconds left. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
Six seconds left. And then he's in the final. He's in the final. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:10 | |
He ain't throwing me in three seconds. Not in a million years. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
Two seconds. One second. Yes, he's in the final! Yes! Yes! | 0:50:14 | 0:50:21 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:50:21 | 0:50:23 | |
# Ashley's in the final! # | 0:50:26 | 0:50:28 | |
-ANNOUNCER: -Mat number two, with a win and going through to the final, | 0:50:28 | 0:50:32 | |
Ashley McKenzie of Great Britain. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:35 | |
I'm hungry. I'm a hungry guy today. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:38 | |
A hungry guy. That's my hunger. | 0:50:38 | 0:50:41 | |
That is my hunger. Hey, big man, just remember me. I ain't got a pass. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:46 | |
Yeah? Remember me. I'm just proving, do you know what I mean? | 0:50:46 | 0:50:50 | |
I'm just proving to everyone | 0:50:50 | 0:50:52 | |
that I can still do it, d'you know what I mean? | 0:50:52 | 0:50:54 | |
I'm number one and that spot ain't going away from me. | 0:50:54 | 0:50:58 | |
I said it from the beginning and I'll say it again. It's done. | 0:50:58 | 0:51:02 | |
That's my spot, do you get me? | 0:51:02 | 0:51:04 | |
I've worked my bollocks off. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:06 | |
I worked days, I've worked nights. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:10 | |
Shut up. You've worked... | 0:51:10 | 0:51:12 | |
HE SCREAMS TRIUMPHANTLY | 0:51:12 | 0:51:14 | |
-Yeah, good man. Well done. Well done. Good. -It was hard, Winston. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:17 | |
It was, it was, but, friend, but you know you're going to get it | 0:51:17 | 0:51:20 | |
and you know you've been expecting it, so... But it's good. It's good. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
You kept your cool and obviously you was a bit frustrated out there, | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
but you just kept it and you picked your moment, | 0:51:26 | 0:51:29 | |
six seconds to go and you popped him. You get me? | 0:51:29 | 0:51:33 | |
Good man, good man, good man. Keep up the work, you know? | 0:51:33 | 0:51:36 | |
Not complacent, uh? Good, good, good. All right. | 0:51:36 | 0:51:39 | |
HE SCREAMS TRIUMPHANTLY | 0:51:41 | 0:51:43 | |
I'm going to get my one done. I'm going to get one an' all. | 0:52:00 | 0:52:04 | |
Can you get in the queue, Mum, please? | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
Oh, all right, son. | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
-Thanks. -Is it all right if I...? | 0:52:11 | 0:52:12 | |
Ashley McKenzie's just looking at his name in the book. | 0:52:15 | 0:52:18 | |
Mum, give me that for a moment. | 0:52:18 | 0:52:20 | |
-I told him first thing this morning you'd win, he'd do it. -I love you. | 0:52:22 | 0:52:26 | |
Do you know what? You've made my fucking day today. Seriously. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:33 | |
Seriously. I've been sick, | 0:52:33 | 0:52:36 | |
-I've cried. -Told you. -Seriously. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:40 | |
I don't care now. Silver or gold, it don't matter. | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
One thing he knows that I don't like, OK, | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
is you do not settle for a silver medal. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:50 | |
You fight for a gold medal. You don't say, "Wow, I'm here. | 0:52:51 | 0:52:55 | |
"I've at least got a silver medal." No, you haven't. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:58 | |
You haven't got anything. You are fighting for a gold medal. | 0:52:58 | 0:53:01 | |
Come on, son. Last fight, OK? | 0:53:36 | 0:53:39 | |
Come on, boy. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
Come on, boy. | 0:53:44 | 0:53:46 | |
-ANNOUNCER: -In white representing Slovenia, Matjaz Trbovc | 0:53:47 | 0:53:53 | |
and in blue representing Great Britain, Ashley McKenzie. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:57 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:53:57 | 0:53:59 | |
Come on, Ashley! | 0:54:04 | 0:54:06 | |
Come on, Ash. | 0:54:06 | 0:54:08 | |
-Come on, Ashley. -Come on, Ash. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
CALLS OF ENCOURAGEMENT | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
-Please, please, please. -Come on, Ash. | 0:54:18 | 0:54:21 | |
Come on, baby, please. | 0:54:21 | 0:54:24 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:54:27 | 0:54:29 | |
YES! | 0:54:29 | 0:54:31 | |
When Ashley scored with that fantastic technique, | 0:54:34 | 0:54:36 | |
coming round the top, coming over the top of Ashley is dangerous. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:40 | |
He's explosive. You know, the speed that Ashley has | 0:54:40 | 0:54:43 | |
in coming underneath, he's electric. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:46 | |
Come on, pull it! | 0:55:01 | 0:55:04 | |
Pull him, Ashley! | 0:55:04 | 0:55:07 | |
Ten, nine, eight, | 0:55:07 | 0:55:10 | |
seven, six, five, | 0:55:10 | 0:55:14 | |
four, three, two, one... | 0:55:14 | 0:55:18 | |
SHE CHEERS | 0:55:18 | 0:55:20 | |
Best day of my life winning the last fight. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:43 | |
It was amazing just to lift everyone's spirit. | 0:55:43 | 0:55:47 | |
The first day of the tournament, gold in the 60kg, Ashley McKenzie. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:52 | |
I felt so happy. | 0:55:52 | 0:55:54 | |
I was lost for words on the rostrum. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:57 | |
He was a man that day. Ashley grew up. | 0:55:57 | 0:56:00 | |
Like a true professional. | 0:56:00 | 0:56:03 | |
Someone who can go and represent Great Britain in the Olympics. | 0:56:03 | 0:56:07 | |
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