My name is David Weller. I am an avid snooker fanatic and like to play as much as I can in my spare time. I have been playing snooker on and off for about 20 years and started learning the game in a large snooker hall in Accrington Lancashire and spent most of my spare time there due to a road traffic accident in 1983. Since then, I progressed onto the highest amatuer level almost making it into the professioinal ranks, but then i devoted most of my time to my family and new born child back in 1991, since then i have stayed hooked by this wonderful game after coming back from an 8 year retirement.

Back in April 2000 i suddenly became very ill with a bone disease called Ostyomylitis, and was placed on the operations waiting list till April 2002 which is when i had my operation that then left me house bound due to having a major operation to remove 5 inches of my left femur and having an Illizarov frame fitted. I had this framework on my leg for almost 3 years, until my specialist doctor felt sorry for me and then decided to remove it from my leg. What a big mistake this was, i told my doctor that my leg was bending and it didn't feel right, but he said he knew best and told me to continue on as normal as could be. I got up out of my chair and my leg snapped, i was then rushed back into hospital and waited till 2am in the morning for them to pull the ends of the break away from each other, which was a total of 8 hours in a massive amount of pain. Finaly they came to my rescue and then placed me on a ward in the hospital for an operation the next day when they screwed in a steel plate the full lenght of my left femur, held in place with 11 3 inch long screws.

All of this has left me with a locked knee which now stops me from getting down into my normal stance at the snooker table. I havent played now for 6 years, but as soon as i am able to stand without the aid of crutches i will be back working hard to get back the game i so love.

Duringall of this i then signed up for a computer course to learn how to use the pc in a office enviroment, just incase i ended up losing my left leg and would need to persue a different carreer. The course cost me a lot of money and feeling rather ripped off by the end of it.

It was then that I had a thought about learning HTML and web site creation, leading me in to creating a site with useful content and a topic that I am familiar with and could share valuable information to others. The first thing that came to my mind was to create a site for my local snooker league which held all of the weekly results, but after the first season the site only had a few visitors each week and the league members couldn't see the potential in offering them this free service.

This then made me think about creating a site full of helpful tutorials that could help others to improve their game, so this is how Maximumbreak came to be. I realized at that time that I wanted to promote this game to the world and what better way to do this than to teach people how to play the game.

Hope you enjoy all the hard work we have put into maximumbreak for all these years.

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