Dave Lockwood (tiddlywinks)
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David Lockwood (born ) is an American
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player. He has won 41 national and world tiddlywinks titles.


Biography

Lockwood attended college at
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(MIT), graduating in 1975. Lockwood's professional career was as an airplane executive. As of 1978, he was an economic forecaster for
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. In 1988, he gave his profession as aviation specialist with
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. He worked as an economist for
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as of 1994. Lockwood began playing
tiddlywinks Tiddlywinks is a game played on a flat felt mat with sets of small discs called winks, a pot, which is the target, and a collection of squidgers, which are also discs. Players use a squidger (nowadays made of plastic) to shoot a wink into fl ...
during his freshman year at MIT. He signed up to play the game as a joke after viewing it in the student handbook. He plays using the nickname "The Dragon", alluding to the fact that he was born in the Year of the Dragon. Lockwood has won 41 national and world tiddlywinks titles. He has additionally won five international titles competing as a duo with Larry Kahn. Lockwood and Kahn frequently compete against each other, with ''
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'' comparing their rivalry to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. In 1979, Lockwood held the record for most consecutive shots "potted" (made into the cup) without missing, at 722. 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. Lockwood is involved in coordinating and organizing tiddlywinks events and tournaments, and was the head of the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations.


Personal life

Lockwood married Deja Lockwood and has five children, all of whom he taught how to play tiddlywinks. His third child, Max, became one of the youngest tiddlywinks players to win a national title, which he did at age 12 by winning the North American Pairs championship in 2001, competing in a team with his father.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lockwood, Dave Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni 1950s births Living people