Dave Lockwood (tiddlywinks)

David Lockwood (born 1952/1953^[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. 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. 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. 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. Oricchio, Michael (2 July 1984). "A Game Not to Be Winked At". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
6. 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. 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. 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.