Seadevil in the center with church friends many years ago, green jumper, black jacket....I was 10st 10lb, 28in waist....super fit and unstoppable. Biking everywhere, anywhere? College Tennis champion for 3x yrs, Welsh Table Tennis champion of all youth centres in Wales, 3rd in the UK in doubles for Table Tennis in the UK colleges, got to the semi finals of the Welsh Tennis Championships also, with no coach or sponsors? Maybe if I had a rich family, to get me to all the events, it may of been me not Andy Murray in Wimbledon lol. I still got all my racquets.
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Seadevil in the center with church friends many years ago, green jumper, black jacket....I was 10st 10lb, 28in waist....super fit and unstoppable. Biking everywhere, anywhere? College Tennis champion for 3x yrs, Welsh Table Tennis champion of all youth centres in Wales, 3rd in the UK in doubles for Table Tennis in the UK colleges, got to the semi finals of the Welsh Tennis Championships also, with no coach or sponsors? Maybe if I had a rich family, to get me to all the events, it may of been me not Andy Murray in Wimbledon lol. I still got all my racquets.
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 Wow, Dude! Tennis, huh? Tough sport...if you lose, you got no-one to blame but yourself, no team BS...all that runnin' keeps ya fit, too...I ain't played a set in years...cool pic, Simon-
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 Thanks bro....just going through some old pics now. Old-school vibe coming on lol. I just want to show my friends a bit of my past, so even though we haven't met, you still take a piece of my youth...I guess some of my pics will take you all back also? I'll upload later...
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 you're feeling nostalgic bro ???...how old are you in this pic ???...
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 was gonna say the same Marc re nostalga.......pretty impressive sporting CV there big boy
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 Yes Marc and Mick, I'm from a poor family, sport especially Tennis and Table Tennis was my main games in my youth, I couldn't get around the UK for the major events due to no father, no family transport, with my family all devout christians, and my late gran, even though raising me as a child, couldn't utilise my potential through lack of funds, so my potential dwindled and unfortunately faded away? Not my grans fault, but those sports you need flexibility and to get to the major youth events to even get noticed? I knew in my heart I could of made it as a Tennis pro with support and sponsorship....I carried on with christianity till the age of 21, played drums up to 6hrs a day. I always comitted to anything I did, at that time I was BMX'n everywhere also? Marc, that was around 1987 roughly? Me around 20yrs old...Yeah Mick, this is a soft-hearted Seadevil pic, fresh faced, very nieve and not experienced with all the worlds bad vices, that all come a few years later...
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 Great shot dude! You looks like you were on top of the world!
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 Yes bro. My gran raised me in the church as a christian, I played drums in all the venues throughout the Uk. I was very nieve, not streetwise at all? But so happy!! The girls in the front, were from different churches. One on the left from north of England, one of the right works for a bank now in London. The 4 guys in the background are all married, good jobs, nice wives and children, the one in the middle turned away from christianity, living in Idaho USA to start with, then San Fransisco, apparently turned gay !!! Now based in Florida Keys in diamond retail....me, unemployed, no job, no money, no woman, no children? I sometimes look back and think if I stayed loyal to christianity I may of got somewhere? I still haven't put pics up of my best mate who passed away suddenly at 27yrs old. He was super fit bro, like a world cup rider. Using an old Diamondback hardtail he could blow anyone away on the hills. he never trained, or went out regular, but when he did his legs were like steel pistons pumping away !!! I can picture him now, laughing at the top of the mountain waiting for everyone...happy times !!
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 Memories are great happy times! Im sorry about your mate who passed away at such an early age! Rare cases of people passing early is always mind boggling to me bro. Well, if you stayed clean with christianity it looks like you would have been married with a couple of kids or living a rainbow life in America, hahahhah I say in life do what you want and never regret a thing. If you have any regrets just do what you can to improve it as you can! hahahha Reminisce on your good times and vast in its glory! RideOn!
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