Alistair is a professional badminton player from Glasgow, Scotland who has spent the last 10 years competing all over the the world at the highest level of the sport. Someone who now lives on tour, racking up a huge amount of air miles with regular intercontinental travel between tournaments and the next training location. Alistair has been based for the last year out of New Zealand for easier travelling up and back to Asia for the sports ke events.

Alistair is the No.1 Men's Singles players for Scotland and has qualified for the last 3 consecutive BWF World Championships. He is the only Scot to have ever won a Mens Singles world ranking tour event, having now won 3 International titles, recently winning the $15,000 Tahiti International, Alistair has also regularly feature in the last couple of years in the main draw of the Super Series tour, the top tour tier for the best World top 32.

Green River (CCR)
Not Afraid (Eminem)
Human (The Killers)
Highway To Hell (ACDC)
Eminence Front (The Who)

Bar, club owner, full time badminton player, part-time idiot, lives - in an airport!

Went along to a Glasgow Council run Racquet Sports Summer Camp at the age of 14 to play shohrt-tennis, course was full so was thrown into the badminton section .. the rest is history.

I try to comprise most of my training now fully on court, weight training being done on court for example with 20kg Weighted Jacket .. with reasonable gaps in between competitions track work also, 400m work running under 1minute rest 1:1 repeat x20 to boost CV .... weekly workload, normal 4hrs a day mostly on court, 6 days a week.

Creatine FX, Glutamine FX

Recovery, Speed and ability to maintain a high workload in training and output across a whole week without breaking down to fatigue. My game itself is built on speed and Creatine managed the right way helps tremendously with explosive muscle use.

Tim Tam Biscuits, probably followed with a Big Mac (hit me now) .... though I love my asian food now and annihilate a lot of Japanese these days, pork, chicken in whatever combination with a lot of white rice. ..... oh and a can of coke ... don't take my Coca Cola away from me !!!

Creatine FX ..... ultra quick .. love it.

Winning on the International Tour in Asia in both singles and doubles in what is an asian saturated sport is a major achievement, having qualified for the last three world championships is fantastic but playing main draw Super Series in Hong Kong against the Olympic Champion in front of 2000 people and on live TV certainly a highlight ... last year as well I player pro-league club matches for the Pasedena Racquets in the USA, and I play singles and doubles for the team with the Olympic and World Champion Tony Gunawan from Indonesia.

Gotta say I still love the Fed Express, and Im just waiting for Tiger Woods to rise eventually like a phoenix from the flames, resurrect his career and personal life with some more astronomical domination of his sport.

I love my Kawasaki Ninja motorbike in racing green, 0-60 in under 4 seconds .. that said I live a little in fear of crashing in again after coming off it at speed on the motorway a few months ago ... generally apart from that I think im starting to get a little old now and more reserved ahaha ... chill out at home, online poker, tv .. and of course .. GOLF, grip it and rip it baby !!

You get your nuts out, chew it up and focus on winning at all costs rather than looking good ... do or die, kill me to beat me.

Winning.

Regulaly feature in the Super Series tour and start taking down some top 16 players having come close in the past and not quite getting there. keen to get myself to a position where im not the worst person in the top 32 players draws ... I dont like being a "good draw" for the rest of the field.