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click here
to see how Johns
biggest dream just has come true. |
What It Takes to
be A Champion... |
John S. Hudson
has been a professional speaker for over 15 years.
He is also the 2011 Australian Masters
Games Snooker
Gold Medal Champion, having achieved a life
long goal and dream, to win
an Australian Championship.
John's dream over 35 years has taken some significant and
indeed challenging twists and turns.
After taking up the game at the age of 18,
John was
mesmerised by watching Australia's own Eddie Charlton win
the TV series Pot Black and a dream was sparked inside him
to maybe one day
be good enough to become a professional snooker player
himself, and to play on the prestigious snooker circuit
full time in England.
From playing in every smoky billiard room throughout
Sydney, to City Tattersall's Club, to being backstage at
the Crucible - the home of the World Professional Snooker
Championships - to playing the great players like
Eddie
Charlton,
Steve Davis, Alex Higgins, Cliff Thorburn, and Dennis
Taylor, John never ever lost sight of his dream. |
2004 Queensland State
Snooker Champion |
It however turned out to be just a dream, as he found out
very quickly over two seasons that he just did not have
the skills to match the best players and turn
professional.
Back in Australia he forged a very successful career as a
partner in a major brand Real Estate franchise, and still
continued to play the game he loved so much.
In the 1990's John gave up snooker completely for two
years. He made massive technique changes only to plumb new
depths of despair and heart ache before finally enjoying
success again after intensive hours of solo practice.
To have 35 years of pure hard work all come to the fore in
a magical 16 months spell by firstly
winning the Queensland State Snooker Championship 2004 - then being chosen as
Australia's No. 1 representative to the World Masters
Snooker Championship 2005
in Bahrain and capping off by winning
the Australian Masters Games Snooker
Gold Medal Championship in October 2005,
was something very special indeed.
Representing Australia in the World Masters Championships
in 2005 was an unforgettable
experience for John. However, to now be selected as the
Australian Captain of the Team to the IBSF World
Team Cup in the USA in August 2006 is an incredible
honour and
one of his proudest moments in the sport to which he has
devoted virtually his entire life.
Today, John continues to challenge and defy his Parkinson's tremor/shake head on
by winning two Open Snooker Tournaments in 7 days.
He won
the NSW Macksville Classic and the Coffs
Harbour Open titles - beating the two defending
Champions in the final whilst playing both LEFT and
RIGHT handed.
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2009 World "under 21"
Snooker Championships |
In August
2009 John was selected as the Team
Manager for the Under 21's Team to the
World Under 21's Snooker Championship in
Kish Island Iran.
It is now the third time John has proudly
represented Australian snooker talent to the
world.
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Time
permitting John will be delighted to conduct a Question &
Answer session after the "power talk" during which
he
can
share many "inside secrets" about the great players in the
snooker world like Eddie Charlton, Pot Black and the World
Championships. Your people will discover just how
demanding and competitive world class snooker is and how
this information will positively influence and lift their
own personal performance.
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