Things you are proud of.....

[Lead_Head]

What things that you own are you proud of? It can be materialistic, or emotional.

I'll start things off with my trophies that I have won over the years playing football









What are you proud of?

Nick

[Bindibadgi]

What are they for? U play(ed) professionally?

Exam completion (& results): GCSEs, A-levels (not so much, i got disappointing results ). Hopefully my Degree too.

Family

Nothing much really.

[Howard]

My DIY subwoofer
I put a lot of work into making it look and sound nice, etc.

[Lead_Head]

Originally posted by Bindibadgi
What are they for? U play(ed) professionally?

Exam completion (& results): GCSEs, A-levels (not so much, i got disappointing results ). Hopefully my Degree too.

Family

Nothing much really.

They are all for playing football

I havent played professionally. Although I did figure in Nottingham Forest's youth team for a few matches and also Nottingham City Boys football team at around the age of 15.

However, none of those trophies are from either of said teams. They were from 2 different football teams (I used to play Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning )! And also for my school (but they were crap )

The majority of those trophies were won in 2 seasons. Where my Saturday team won both the league + two cups 2 seasons in a row!

I then left them as the manager didnt like me, and I didnt particularly like him

I then lost interest in playing football and never touched a ball in 2 years. I then got back into it during college and started a 5-a-side team at my local sports centre. We won the league there and got a nice trophy and a crate of beer to share between us (alcohol is always a bonus )

Nick

[Bindibadgi]

Cool I used to play footie sunday mornings but never really wont anything cause our team was crap. We were pretty good footballers, just everyone else was better

I play down the park with friends since and prefer it cause i wasnt old enough (nor developed enough physically) to play properly. Also, im not fussed with the competition much.

Id love to get into it at uni though, but noone i know plays there Bout the only thing i can do since my fingers have perminant tendonitis so i cant do rock climbing anymore

[TiG]

Computer Science Degree,
mad holidays on my own to places i've never been.
Coaching of under 6 youth football team.

I am proud of what i'm like.

Sure i can be subtle as a lump hammer on here, but i'm different from this off the internet.

TiG

[tanman]

My two kids Allana & Ricky

Tan

[spikegifted]

Originally posted by Lead_Head
I'll start things off with my trophies that I have won over the years playing football

Show off...

Me? I don't have much sporting achievements to talk about, but try this one...

I've fully recovered from a broken left femur (thigh bone), hurt while playing rugby a few years ago. It turned out that I was carrying a stress fracture for weeks which I didn't know. Due to the stresses of doing turns and changes of speed during the 1st half, it finally gave way early in the 2nd half. I was taken to hospital (obviously) and there were what followed: 4 hours of operation which the consultant inserted a metal bar inside the bone itself with "screws" attaching the top and bottom of the bar to the bone. After 3 days in hospital, I was released and left to fend for myself. I was on crutches for nearly 5 months; over 50 hours of physiotheropy and hydrotheropy - my left leg has to, effectly, learn how to walk again.

However, I'm fine now. Ok, I'm nowhere near as fast as I once was (I was a winger and did 100m in 11sec), I played occasionally until a couple of years ago. The metal bar is still inside my bone; it will probably stay there for the rest of my life, unless it becomes a threat to my health.

19 years of rugby union and American football has left me with a broken leg, a broken bone in my foot (someone knee landed on the palm of my foot on a bone-dry pitch) and a separated shoulder (I was a wing forward before)... But hey, I enjoyed every single one of those minutes it spent training and playing these sports.

I'm proud of that.

[tanman]

Bye the way Lead_head I used to sponser 'the Newark Arms ' football team. But canna really say I am proud of that.

Tan

[Bazzlad]

Winning the Year 2000 National Computer Console Championship!
On Goldeneye against 800 hopefuls
£1250 given to me by Saracen The gladiator....and he was a big rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbisher!
Also, getting a development deal for my band,
Robert Plant praising us to high heaven,
Beacon playing us...
There's a few others, but they stand out

[oddytomtom]

i got a few running trophies which i am very happy bout yay

i also am happy with my results from the gcse's

[Theo]

I got silver in the British Sambo Wrestling/Judo championships, 2001. I also got my shoulder torn a month later, and am still waiting for an NHS operation.. haven't been able to fight/train since.

[silent ben]

I am proud that:

No matter what happens, i can fix almost anything.
I own everyone i've played at table football
I can put away more alcohol than my m8s.
I can be a bigger man if i need to be (and kick his ass if i dont)

[Bindibadgi]

Originally posted by Theo
I got silver in the British Sambo Wrestling/Judo championships, 2001. I also got my shoulder torn a month later, and am still waiting for an NHS operation.. haven't been able to fight/train since.

Whow cool! (the silver not the op wait). I did Judo as a kid but gave up cause i got to like "orange 3" when i was 11 and was only about 4'5" and small built going up against 13-14 year old, much bigger built kids of similar grade That truely sucked and since i have an inferiority complex about fighting people , wish id kept it up though.

[Theo]

I was 12 when I started, and in the group that I trained with (Tonge Judo Club), all the kids quit when they were 16. So I was the only one to go into the adult class. Ended up training against the kind of guy that you can just tell would absolutely maul you in a dark alley. It was all good fun though, managed to hold my own, and I think it made me a better fighter.

Before I did judo/sambo, I trained Kempo from quite an early age. Bit of a mix of kickboxing and karate. Good fun, I learnt alot from that, but I do regret stopping when I started highschool

[Lead_Head]

Originally posted by spikegifted
Show off...

it got the ball rolling, nah seriously...

Originally posted by spikegifted
Me? I don't have much sporting achievements to talk about, but try this one...

I've fully recovered from a broken left femur (thigh bone), hurt while playing rugby a few years ago. It turned out that I was carrying a stress fracture for weeks which I didn't know. Due to the stresses of doing turns and changes of speed during the 1st half, it finally gave way early in the 2nd half. I was taken to hospital (obviously) and there were what followed: 4 hours of operation which the consultant inserted a metal bar inside the bone itself with "screws" attaching the top and bottom of the bar to the bone. After 3 days in hospital, I was released and left to fend for myself. I was on crutches for nearly 5 months; over 50 hours of physiotheropy and hydrotheropy - my left leg has to, effectly, learn how to walk again.

However, I'm fine now. Ok, I'm nowhere near as fast as I once was (I was a winger and did 100m in 11sec), I played occasionally until a couple of years ago. The metal bar is still inside my bone; it will probably stay there for the rest of my life, unless it becomes a threat to my health.
[SNIP]

I'm proud of that.

Thats something to be really proud of! Dont think I could manage to do what you have done!

Do you get hassle at airports etc?

Nick