My name is Nick Kenny and I started reviewing products for Maxbreak.com earlier this year.

I have been playing Snooker on and off for the past 25 years. My first memories of Snooker would have been watching it on the TV in the late 70’s with my grandparents, so like a lot of lucky people I started taking a real interest in the sport during the superb times of the early 80’s.

I had my first 4 x 2 table aged 10 and soon graduated to the lofty heights of a 6 x 3 about 12 months later. In late 1982 we were fortunate enough in my home town of Barnstaple to have 3 clubs open up totalling 34 tables and I still remember those first tentative steps up into The Strand Snooker club aged 12 and standing in awe at the shear size of a full sized table. Despite looking slick as hell in wine coloured stay pressed trousers, matching woollen waistcoat and grey crocodile slip on shoes it soon became apparent that a cue designed for a 6 x 3 table with a slot on tip would not suffice where “the big boys play” and so my love affair with the implements of war and the game in general began.

With a lot of coaching and hours of practise at my parents expense I was able to progress like so many kids our age back in those halcyon times. Snooker back then to us and many of you in your thirties was like the PS2 of today I guess…Only I did not harbour ambitions blowing the hell out of some alien force or kicking arse like Batman like my kids do today, only kicking arse on the table…..And looking good doing it!

I joined our local league at age 14, left school at 16 and played Snooker full time for 12 months on a YTS scheme and in that time knocked in my only 4 century breaks. My lasting memory of those teenage years would have been leading the then World Amateur champion Darren Morgan 2-0 in a tournament in Exeter, green with the rest to win 3-0 ( imagine Patsy Fagan x10 and you get an idea how good I am with that implement) bottled it and never got a look in. Pure Class.

Through my 20’s I played on and off juggling this with having 3 children. Still played enough to win 2 Devon and Cornwall pairs competitions and reach semi-finals of county singles and pairs.

And into the present aged 35 and having another 2 children aged 4 and 3 respectively and moved back to my home town of Barnstaple I am able to say that armed with my new Mike Wooldridge creation minus the bleached mullet and Crocodile shoes the bug has well and truly bitten again…..

“Play well!”

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