‘I went from world champ to mopping floors’: Colin Cummings, the greatest air hockey player of all time
The Hawaii-based Cummings is hoping to parlay his family’s air hockey dynasty into a better future for the sportAbout an hour before our scheduled chat, Colin Cummings accompanies his polite request to delay with a photograph of an image familiar to parents worldwide, a grizzling newborn strapped to
The Hawaii-based Cummings is hoping to parlay his family’s air hockey dynasty into a better future for the sport
About an hour before our scheduled chat, Colin Cummings accompanies his polite request to delay with a photograph of an image familiar to parents worldwide, a grizzling newborn strapped to his front, resolutely refusing to succumb to her morning nap.
Cummings has gone about this week’s defence of his air hockey world title rather differently to his many others. Partly, that is thanks to baby Clara’s arrival a couple of months ago, which has dominated most of the summer. The rest of it has been dictated by a job relocation to Hawaii where he has been given a three-year posting as a personnel officer in the US air force. The air hockey table at his Oahu home is the only professional-style playing surface in the whole multi-island state.
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