Extreme ironing champion.

Kev45

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Hey guyz you might not be aware that I am a former extreme iron champion. Here is a short clip of me on my way to the gold medal six years ago.


The sport is very inclusive, and the basic equipment beginners need to compete is an iron and a board, my preference is steam, but there are no set rules, try a few irons until you find one that suits your ironing style.

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These are some beginner running shoes I started with, but you can invest more as your ironing improves.

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This what I use to fuel myself during a training session.

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They are three years out of date but really cheap on Amazon.

 

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@Kev45

The image of you, clad in high-performance running shoes (probably still creased from your last marathon dash to a Himalayan summit), perched atop General Sherman, the giant sequoia, flattening a pair of trousers while delicately balancing a pack of Bounty bars for “fuel”, it brings a tear to my eye.

Here's my take on your splendid equipment photo's.

I know you are far too modest to show the 'real' stuff!


* The Iron: A state-of-the-art, titanium-infused, anti-gravity beast, it has a Wi-Fi connection and a soul. NASA called they want it back.

* The Ironing Board: Wind-tunnel tested, carbon fibre, collapsible via voice command. Folds itself up out of sheer respect when you enter the arena.

* The Shoes: Not just any shoes. We’re talking Nike Alphafly 3s, in UKChat colours, custom-dipped in platinum and laced with threads of unicorn mane. You don’t run to a summit, you glide, powered by chat forum fairy tales and raw conviction.

* Bounty Bars: Your sacred fuel. A mountain of them. A coconut-stacked monument to perseverance. Nutritionists are baffled, but you claim the secret lies in licking the wrapper for electrolytes.

Remember, the rest of you forum contributors.

You know who you are, and so quick to mock <tut tut>

@Kev45 didn’t choose the extreme ironing life. The extreme ironing life chose @Kev45 . And while you merely press your garments under a stained and smelly chair cushion, in your dimly lit greasy 1970s kitchen bedsit, he scales cliffs and smooths sleeves in the clouds.

Legend.

Hero.

Wrinkle warrior!

Never change, @Kev45


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photo of @Kev45 in action atop a 6000m sandstone needle
 
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