Mini Vestman

I just realised I have never put this on my blog. Last Christmas Melissa got me a present!

One week until the Big Fight

On Friday I will be having my first boxing match, in front of 550 people (and completely sold out) in Birmingham's biggest club!

Originally I was going to be boxing a guy called Joe Phillips, but on Tuesday he had his rib broke while sparring. The week before another guy had to drop out, also in my weight class. This means that I have been matched with a new opponent, Edward Clark, a guy who started boxing around the same time as me, and a guy who I have been found drunk, raving in clubs with.

... but alas...

He is going down.

The training is going really well. I have started having private sessions with Neil Perkins, who was on the Sky Sports Contenders: Heavyweights III (that Audley Harrison won). I am working on my range, and boxing on the outside.

Wish me luck! And I am going to get really drunk after!

omglan Dodgeball: The Return

After my original team dropped out of the last tournament the evening before we were meant to play, our dodgeball activities were on hiatus. Determined to play again, I formed a new team of people from the Grad Community (houses near my new place) who were up well up for playing. They even wanted to play in a kit, AND were willing to let me find one.

It was really fun, but again, we didn't win a round. Highlights include:

• Watching Andy fit into shorts 4" too small.
• Paul go into what he thought was a changing room only to realise it was a shower that automatically turns on.
• Sunny falling over in the first round.
• Rob getting hit in the head a record amount.
• Joe getting carded for kicking the ball at the other team.

Video coming soon.

Andy vs Victims of Cancer

The last week I have been training hard. I usually don't put effort into things, but this I have. If I applied the same amount of effort to my College A Levels, I perhaps wouldn't have forgotten to turn up to 3 of my exams.

I have been trying to go to the gym twice a day, and the days I can only manage once I am cycling 7 miles. I am fully burnt out but trying to power onwards.

With that said, I noticed something on the website of the boxing gym, to do with the boxing event I will be participating in.

"There is a catch this time as Red Team will be representing Help for Hero's and the blue team representing Macmillan Cancer Support. Their will be a charity pot on the night (estimated to be £5,000) and the teams results will dictate how much of the pot is divided to each charity."

So basically... All my training is towards stopping cancer victims getting support. I can just picture it now, we will be exchanging punches, there will be a tense atmosphere, everyone on the edge of their seats to see the outcome... and I will look across at the crowd and catch the eye of a small, bald, wheelchair bound child, looking up at me with tears in his eyes.

Nostalgia - Favourite Song!

When I was younger, I used to love the 1991 film 'Suburban Commando'. I know it is one of the worst IMDB rated films, but I loved it. I even had the computer game and loved that too. And now my nephews love the film too!

Anyway, in one of the scenes, this music is playing as he walks down a sunny street. It was one of my favourite songs. I had looked in the past but couldn't find it, but today found it on Youtube.

Ahh I love it.

Poster now plastered around Birmingham

(ps. I am on the second row)

Camping with my Nephews

On Friday I camped in the garden with my nephews (Logan, 6, Sam, 5, Charlie, 4). They had been looking forward to it for weeks, so they had cute little excited faced when I turned up.

They helped me put the tent up in the rain, and the night was complete with hotdogs, Playstation, sweets, Mr Bean, and going to sleep at 3am.

Thinking about my '100 things to do list', I asked them what things they would want to do, now or when they are bigger, that they have never done before. The conversation went a bit like this:

Logan: Ermm. Put up a tent.

Me: But we have just done that... anything else? It can be anything at all!

Logan: Hmm... bungee jump!

Me: That sounds good. What about you Charlie?
Charlie: Ermm. Put up a tent!

Me: But we have just done that.

Charlie: Play on the Playstation!

Me: We do that a lot! Think of something you've never done before.

Charlie: ... Put up a tent?
Me: We are in a tent that we just put up...

Charlie: Okay... play on the Playstation?

Me: But... never mind... anything else?

Charlie: Bungee jump!

Me: ... Okay.. Sam?

Sam: Pour a big bag of sweets in my mouth!