Saturday, August 26, 2006

2 Saturdays after the Saturday before the World Memory Championships 2006


What an amazing weekend! So much work to do before next year. The goal posts are constantly moving up in this game and good year of practice is defiantly needed before the WMC 2007.

This blog is something for me to post my training results to and hopefully inspire some more people to get involved in this amazing sport. I have some plans this year to do some newspaper slots and perhaps a bit more local TV to drum up some interest in the UK. Out of 33 competitors only 5 of us were British!

I have some crazy plans to do some charity work and do some memory demonstrations there which hopefully will amaze people so much that they have to know more! Team UK will grow, slowly but surely.........

Thanks to everyone at the event: James Ponder, James Patterson (the Welsh Wizard!), Daren Denholm, Ed Cook, Boris Konrad, Joachim Thaler, Corinna Draschl, Joshua Foer, Leung Chun Kit, Palvinderjit Dhesi, Daniela Collado, Andi Bell etc. etc. etc.!!! and of course, the legendary Ben Pridmore. It was commented numerous times how humble Ben was and what a great asset that is with such amazing talent. I know all of team UK agreed with that.

In the mean time, I'm working on my binary by creating cards with the combinations of 6 digits on there to build speed and accuracy. Will keep working on my visualisation and practicing hard with the cards too. I'm going for a perfect recall on a deck in under 2 minutes next year. Got a loooong way to go but I expect to produce some pretty good results so on that note, back to the training!

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