David Lockwood (born 1952 or 1953[1]) is an American tiddlywinks player. He has won 41 national and world tiddlywinks titles.

Biography

Lockwood attended college at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 1975.[2] Lockwood's professional career was as an airplane executive.[1] As of 1978, he was an economic forecaster for Pan Am.[3] In 1988, he gave his profession as aviation specialist with Booz Allen Hamilton.[4] He worked as an economist for Gulf Air, an airline based in Bahrain as of 1994.[5]

Lockwood began playing tiddlywinks during his freshman year at MIT. He signed up to play the game as a joke after viewing it in the student handbook.[6] He plays using the nickname "The Dragon", alluding to the fact that he was born in the Year of the Dragon.[2] Lockwood has won 41 national and world tiddlywinks titles. He has additionally won five international titles competing as a duo with Larry Kahn.[6] Lockwood and Kahn frequently compete against each other, with Sports Illustrated comparing their rivalry to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.[7] In 1979, Lockwood held the record for most consecutive shots "potted" (made into the cup) without missing, at 722.[8] In 1988, he and Kahn held the world record for the fewest shots taken (21) to pot 12 winks from the corner of a standard wink table.[4]

Lockwood is involved in coordinating and organizing tiddlywinks events and tournaments, and was the head of the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations.[8]

Personal life

Lockwood married Deja Lockwood[5] and has five children, all of whom he taught how to play tiddlywinks.[9]

His third child, Max, became one of the youngest tiddlywinks players to win a national title, which he did at age 12[9][10] by winning the North American Pairs championship in 2001, competing in a team with his father.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 Schneider, Ed (4 September 1994). "WINKING ISN'T EVERYTHING ... IT'S THE ONLY THING. A STORY ABOUT THE INCOMPARABLE GLORY OF SPORTS". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 Apple, Sam (23 February 2016). "Unsquoppable". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  3. ↑ Nack, Bill (16 December 1978). "They nurdle, piddle, squidger, squop". The Anniston Star. Anniston, Alabama. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  4. 1 2 McGuire, Patrick A. (9 July 1988). "Tiddlywinks pro has serious fun with childhood game". Rapid City Journal. Rapid City, South Dakota. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  5. 1 2 Oricchio, Michael (2 July 1984). "A Game Not to Be Winked At". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  6. 1 2 Bowman, Emma; Simon, Scott (21 April 2019). "Not Just Child's Play: World Tiddlywinks Champions Look To Reclaim Their Glory". NPR. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "TO SQUOP, OR NOT TO SQUOP? WINKS WIZARDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POND FACE SUCH AGONIZING DILEMMAS EVERY DAY". Sports Illustrated. 27 November 1995. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  8. 1 2 Piccioli, Dave (26 July 1979). "Tiddlywinks isn't just kid stuff". Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter. Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. p. 10. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  9. 1 2 Aratani, Lori (24 January 2006). "Family quests to rule tiddlywinkdom". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  10. ↑ Singal, Poorva (11 May 2007). "For these athletes, the board is their field". Silver Chips Online. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  11. ↑ "NATwA Championship Results". Tiddlywinks.org. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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