this.
Honestly you could have finessed and used that as an opportunity to start a conversation with her . . .It was the summer of 1996 in Marietta GA which is a suburb of Atlanta. My dad lived and worked in ATL so for the summers I would visit him. Less than a quarter of a mile away from my dad's place was a very famous gym called Sportslife...I say famous because it was where a lot of the stars went to workout when they were in ATL and at the time it was where the Atlanta Hawks practiced. I couldn't afford the place straight up, but I was able to negotiate a one off special summer deal where I paid $150 to get in. I was a young athlete and it was a privilege afforded to me.
This place is important because it's where a lot of my hoop stories originate from...This is the place where I finally realized I was actually talented enough to make a splash in the hoop world. IT's also a place where I met many sports stars some famous so not so famous, some old so me new...including the entire Hawks teams which was Steve Smith (cool story involving him), Dikembe Mutombo (he picked on me a lot), Alan Henderson (my frat brother Yo YOO!!), Mookie Blaylock, and even a Kevin Willis sighting. I also met Moses Malone, and the older female tennis star Zina Garrison(funny quick story with her too). I also attended the dream team party at Sportslife...more on that later and it includes Too Short
Anyway as you can guess 1996 in ATL was the Olympics. I was headed up to SPortslife to workout and practice my hoops as usual when I see three blacked out SUVS at the entrance of the gym. I'm like this has to be someone VERY important because even the pro athletes and celebs don't come in with SUVs like that. So I get inside and I ask who is the person here with the mini convoy parked outside...the people are like it's the daughter of the Sultan of Brunei...she's here in ATL to watch the Olympics and that she came in to ATL on her very own custom 747. I was like wow!!! She had went into the tennis pro shop and bought a lot of gear, and she tipped the massage people an outrageous amount of money...they also talked about how she was able to have Lennox Mall all to herself to shop, before it officially opened to the public for normal business hours. Amazing!
So anyway I head up to the weight room and there I see here working out...but of course she wasn't by herself...there were two very fit bodyguards with her sporting fanny packs. Of course you know they were packing serious heat in their fanny packs.
So me always thinking I can pull any female (I'm not saying I can, but in my head I think I can) I try to get eye contact with her....I do and she gives me this very warm smile. So I'm like "yeah she actually smiled at me", getting all geeked up as if I'm doing something. I then go to the bench press and put 45 on each side so I can do as many reps as I can in one set. That's how I did on the bench back then. So there I am hitting rep after rep with 135lb...then I got burned out and for some reason I couldn't get out that last rep and the bar was stuck on my chest with a measly 135lb
I'm sitting there struggling to try to get out one more rep because I didn't want to deal with the shame of getting stuck with 135lbs...
Out of nowhere one of her bodyguards comes over and lifts the 135 off my chest and racks it for me....oh the embarrassment I felt when I looked over to where she was and she kinda laughs at me in the most subtle way...but it was like she was saying "awww so cute". I left the weight room with ego slightly bruised that the I bonked in front of the richest daughter in the entire world with 135lbs no less. But hey it was a great experience and a cool story that I tell from time to time. Oh and by the way, she was beautiful and had a nice body...she wasn't skinny,..she had a very nicely toned body...you can tell she took working out very seriously.
I have so many more stories from that gym...it was an amazing experience being there...that was the place when I realized I had pro potential, More to come...
Right place at the right time, and random people knew all about the ladie's business as well as how and why she flew in.
okayyyy lmfaoooo
Knowing EWD hes holding out on the full story , i got a feeling there's more behind it.
Knowing EWD hes holding out on the full story , i got a feeling there's more behind it.
