NEW YORK, March 10, 2009 — Afghanistan War veteran Ron White earned the title of #1 memory in the USA this week in New York City at the USA Memory Championship. Ron defeated 52 other "mental athletes" in what is described as a mental Olympics. To win the tournament Ron memorized a deck of shuffled cards in 1 minute, 27 seconds, which set a new USA national record. He also set a new national record by memorizing a string of 167 consecutive digits in 5 minutes and 92 names and faces in only 15 minutes. When asked how Ron won the tournament, he replied, "Military training, plain and simple."
Ron worked side by side with a former US Navy SEAL, TC Cummings, to develop the mental sharpness and toughness to compete under pressure. Ron and TC would meet weekly and review their goals and mental mindset, to insure that it was of military precision caliber. In the SEALS there is a saying, "The more you sweat in times of peace … the less you bleed in times of war." For Ron this meant making his memory training tougher than the actual competition. Ron memorized a deck of 52 shuffled cards more than 1116 times and ran through a string of 175 digits over 649 times in the 90 days preceding the tournament. In an effort to make his training tougher than the competition he even invested in snorkel gear and plastic playing cards, eventually getting to the point where he could memorize a deck of cards underwater in 2 minutes and 4 seconds.
Ron received special permission from his military unit to attend the 12th USA Memory Championship in New York City and credits his training from the military in earning him this victory. Ron shares, "In the military I learned to remain calm under pressure, pay attention to detail and have a sound strategy for victory. I relied on all these skills I learned in the military to capture the title."
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