"Follow Your Heart Achieve Your Dreams With Passion"

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1. Tell us about your background and journey.

I am a national athlete in long jump, my best record is 7.20 meters in Pongal state meet. I am from middle class family with seven children and I’m the last best not least one in my family.

As I’m the small kid to my family, I got love from parents as well as from my siblings. Though we suffered a lot for running a better life, we had enough enjoyment in home like jumping walls from home to watch night-time movies with elder ones, cycle racing with my elder brother and got many wounds.

We did many naughty things but my mother supported me. When I feel down or in my failure times my friends and mother never missed to give their love and time for me. I am a Taekwondo master from my 6 years old because of my genes talent, I become master.

2. How did you decide to make your passion your career? Was your family supportive?

As I am a taekwondo master from my childhood and I’m a naughty boy in nature like escaping after breaking something in home, playing with snakes and being a hero to my friends circle. These characteristics take me to next level by involving in sports under school participation is my first and initial step and this winning path motivates me to participant event in district, division, state level player in my schooldays. In my school days, I made a record under the titles of “SCHOOL STATE FIRST” and “JUNIOR UNDER 19 FIRST”.

Yes, my family supports me by showing their love and it helps me to achieve my success path in this field

3. Who is your favorite player and what have you learnt from him/her?

Carl Lewis is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold medals.

His best record is 8.67 meters in Rome world championships. Lewis was not only the world's greatest long jumper, but also the greatest sprinter too. He is an all-rounder and multi-talented person in sports. So he become my inspiration.

4. What is the level of commitment and time required to make a sport a career?

My passion and interest is same “sports” from that itself I got peaceful career. But I spend my dedicated time to sports after my career life too. Each person has to dedicate two hours a day for sports. Follow your heart achieve your dreams with passion is a motivational lines that help me to move forward.

5. How can we encourage more youngsters to take up sports as a full time profession?

As per current situation in our education system and the competitive world only the certificate we earn will not be enough to compete. It will be a best thing for young hearts to have their own unique talents which can be their backbone to their career and show their best to shine in their interested field.

6. Which is your favorite book and why?

My favorite book is Taekwon – Do “The art of self-defence” written by Choi Hong Hi. In this book it describes about katas’ and it helps me to learn more and more new things and become master in taekwondo.

Interviewed By - Shathika_neevisha