Growing up - ate, drank and slept competitive squash, badminton and tennis (eventually focusing on squash, with a provincial no. 2 ranking in under-17’s, 1980)
Played a lot of hockey and preferred it over squash, despite the larger competition pool in the former, where I blended in more.
Continued playing tournament squash (high B/low A level) and duffer hockey into my 30’s and early 40’s, until that fateful, godawful, fucked day, Jan. 6, 2006, when I fully ruptured my achilles heel on the squash court.
This gardening business operator cannot risk being in a leg-cast again.
I really fuckin miss all that shit, playing hard.
Sounds appropriate for a game called Montezuma’s Revenge.
Foosball.
I’m good enough to hold a table all night in a casual bar atmosphere, and I’ve won an “amateur” tournament. However, there is another level of foosball player that would destroy me. I’ve played against a national level player before, and I consider it a victory that I scored one goal.
Scratch bowler … best average was 205 for a season … top game was 290 … I could beat any ten random bowlers handily.
Damn, I was going the brag about my 1500 chess rating … that would beat any ten random people off the street … middle of the pack for any local chess club.
Did you get the NM title (National Master)?
I am really good at NES Tecmo Bowl because I have played it since the 80’s and still do sometimes using an emulator. Scoring a point against me playing with any team isn’t an option so I just amuse myself by trying ridiculous stunts like throwing end-zone to end-zone and running up the score as high as possible. I am disappointed if I ever lose less than 63-0. The games are artificially very short but I have managed to score over 100-0 a couple of times. That means you have to score on every offensive play and intercept on every defensive play but it can be done when things work out right.
There was a flight combat game during the early 1990’s called FA/18 Hornet that I was ridiculously good at as well. I stopped using missiles because it was too easy and just took on large groups of other planes with nothing but close range guns and still beat them all every time.
In real life, I can hold my breath underwater for over three minutes and much longer if I try and I am told that I walk faster and longer than any human has a right to.
Rowing (well, I’m a coxswain).
NCAA and multiple club national championships; elite development camp selection, no higher than that (there having been only two seats at the Olympics and 6 at worlds, with overlap between the two and certain exclusions applying, made it tough to advance and stay healthy/keep a job).
I’ve won more head races than I can count; for certain definitions of “best,” I’m still among the best in the world.
Pretty sure he’s one better and is an IM, hopefully he will come back to confirm. No such thing as NM in the UK, as far as I know.
As for me, I’m ranked around #40 in the world at Association Croquet. Big(ish) fish in a small pond.
Playing Cribbage on Yahoo does not make you a great Cribbage player. Taking advantage of opponents tells, mistakes,missed points and other things, in IRL, are a very important part of the game.I am very good at all word games, pool and Twister, but if I had to pick one game, where I have a decided advantage, it is Cribbage.