AMBIDIDDLEMOUS - SPORT, PLAY & RECREATION CONSULTANCY

I could write page upon page of why you should employ myself and my team at Ambididdlemous as a consultant, even then you might not find the service you require. You will have a vision and you will probably know exactly what you want to achieve but the process of achieving that vision is a different ball game. This is where things get complicated, there are so many pitfalls and problems that can arise during the process of achieving your vision that at the end of the day, you might just give up your vision as one of hope or put it on the back burner, its something you hope will eventually happen, and eventually you'll say "it would have been nice to have done (so and so) but"...............

I may be in a position to help. I see myself and my team at Ambididdlemous as an Outcome Facilitation Partners, I've (Dai Richards) achieved everything I want in life, I've been an international and world champion sportsman, a world leader in my business field and I've been a massive thorn in the side of corrupt government officials. I didn't want to achieve the latter, this fell into my lap but I dealt with it nevertheless.

To achieve success and to achieve your goals in life you need a whole host of performance factors, hard work, diligence, adaptability and attention to detail are just some of these.

The world is driven by MONEY and GREED and what these things can buy.

Our world is driven by CARE and FUN, helping family, friends and clients achieve positive outcomes through process management, good social interaction and the creation of a pathway to to realise targets and goals.

That doesn't mean we are not serious about outcomes, it just means we do things in a different way that have a lasting effect on the lives that we touch.

If you thinking that Ambididdlemous can work for you, then the best way forward for us, is a chat on the phone or an exchange of emails so we can both get an idea if we are the team for the job.

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Representing your country at a sport can often be regarded as the pinnacle of a sportsman's career. I've represented Wales at 6 different sports (cyclo cross, triathlon, mountain biking, mountain running, duathlon and marathon kayaking) and won a world championship at another, quadrathlon (swimming, kayaking, cycling and running). I've played an important part in my local sports community in administration, event organisation, coaching clubs and individuals. There are a significant number of business and social development life experiences that I can draw on as a consultant. I love working with kids and have four myself, all grown up now, three of these have represented Wales, two are double internationals, two have a PhD and one is a world white water rafting champion. Between myself and my children we have 11 representative international honours at 9 different sports and two of us have won world championships.

Although my achievements are mainly sporting, I understand play and how to have fun, play is sometimes underrated and the type of play we do is important for development of not only children and young adults but of the older generations too. I have seen people in their 90s playing and having fun. Play is not about being a child, it's about being a human being and it's about the quest for fun, it's a way of forging friendships.

I am currently researching and writing a book about play and would welcome the opportunity to work with play groups, schools, colleges or organisations whose focus is on play and recreation.

I love nothing better than to roll my sleeves up and get involved with a hard working and dedicated team. I'm not in consultancy for short term gain, I'm in it for short term fun and long term satisfaction.

For more about me please visit my personal website, click on the link below.

www.dai-richards.wales

In the early 2000s while I was chairman and head coach at Multisport Racing (Triathlon) Club I ran a Saturday evening swim session at the Neath Leisure Centre. The last 5 minutes of each session was always free play for the kids and the 5 minutes previous to that we played pool games. On one of those occasions I invented a simple game for the small children's pool where I'd shout, bottom, top, left or right. The kids had to run in the water to the wall corresponding to my shout, bottom was the wall closest, top was the wall furthest away and left, right are self explanatory. One of the older and faster kids would always win or be close to winning the bottom and top but every time I shouted right or left he would lose his way unsure of which was his left and which was his right. He couldn't tell his left from his right and off the top of my head I coined the term ambididdlemous, based on the term ambidextrous. I had no idea if there was a word for the inability to tell the left from the right so when I returned home I googled it and found there wasn't. Soon after I entered ambididdlemous on the unwords website, where it got picked up and introduced to the public by Kimi from Dundee, through a BBC Radio Scotland programme 'Call Kaye' (with Kaye Adams). Elaine submitted it to be entered into the Collins English language dictionary on 18 July 2012 and it's still pending approval. Fingers crossed it will get there in the end.

AMBIDIDDLEMOUS ON UNWORDS

AMBIDIDDLEMOUS ON COLLINS DICTIONARY

"Finally ... my affliction has a name! In future whenever anyone asks me for directions in the street I will answer "Sorry, I am unable to help you - I suffer with acute ambididdlemous syndrome"

C Farnham (from Collins Dictionary comments)