About Tony
Throughout Tony's life, he has taken on and succeeded at some huge feats. More detail on some of these below... |
References Tony has received many awesome letters from his clients, here's a few... "Many of our retailers and staff who have attended all previous Lotteries Commission Retailer of the Year Awards have made a special point of telling me that you were the best speaker we have ever had. I can also tell you that it was the first time I can ever remember a guest speaker getting such a rousing standing ovation." " What a motivator!!! You are the speaker who entertains and I congratulate you on your wonderful talk." " When I got home after the function I could not stop thinking about what you had achieve in your life so far. It made me readies that I am capable of so much more. Nearly everyone I have spoken to that also heard your presentation echoed the same sentiments." " I really appreciated your talk, it was highly amusing but more importantly motivating. In a world full of negativity it would be great to have a few more people who are so positive like yourself, Thanks." " You just keep getting better and better! Not only do you a real story to tell and the ability to tell it in a way that reaches every audience, but you also have the scores on the board to show it's how we respond to things that affect us that really matters" " You truly have a wonderful story Tony and a fabulous way of relating that. Well done." "Your session was undoubtedly the highlight of our two day 'Who Dares Wins' themed Conference. The feedback and comments from our 60 attendees has been full of praise and positive comments for a great conference. Much more of that can be attributed to you" " As I expected you absolutely blew everybody away with your positive attitude and motivation. Your message was extremely strong and powerful yet has a simple message to it. Thank you very much." "I was very impressed with your openness and honesty. The way you were able to convey your strong personal values in such simple yet effective terms, centered around personal experiences, certainly proved both entertaining and thought provoking. You have an important message that needs sharing." Our 6000 members at the conference this year have voted it to be our BEST ever event largely due to your FANTASTIC presentation Tony was the highlight of our conference the 5500 delegates swamped Tony for autographs and photos he was DYNAMIC Tony was the BEST speaker we have ever seen and the rousing standing ovation he received I have never seen before. RIVETING Tony's unique story had us hanging on his every word his delivery, timing,humour and emotion are all FIRST CLASS. We had 10.000 delegates at this seminar all of them went home with a life changing attitude that Tony's presentation had given them. BRILLIANT Tony's presentation was AWE INSPIRING and ATTITUDE CHANGING a roller coaster of emotions we will never forget. AWESOME |
||
|
|||
Tony had artistic talents and picked up after school job's sign-writing stock-cars and writing price tickets for local retail outlets.
When Tony was twelve his Dad built him his first cart and many hours were spent down at the local go cart track racing his mates. Tony enjoyed motor sport because it put him on a level playing field with his competitors.
World's fastest amputee. In August 2008, Tony went to the Bonneville salt flats in Utah where he achieved a top speed of 181.863mph on the famous salt. Now he's planning a return to Bonneville as soon as next year for another attempt, this time with a purpose-built car rather than a converted quarter- mile drag racer and with the aim of not only joining the 200MPH club but also claiming a class record
At 15 Tony began competing in athletics. He competed on shot-put, discus, javelin and of course swimming and became the best in New Zealand in his grade.
In December 2002 Tony went to Africa with a Korean film crew to climb Africa's hightest mountain Kilimanjaro
In 1997 Tony and Elaine sold the sign-writing business and Tony began his new career path to become the best inspirational speaker in the world. Tony uses a painters trestle as his speaking platform and tells the story of his life, in his own words.
After friends of Tony's parents, who were swimming coaches, read an article that said teaching disabled people to swim was a great form of physiotherapy, Tony was literally thrown in at the deep end and learnt to swim. Swimming became an important part of Tony's life.
In 1996 Tony found a new challenge, martial art. He went to pick his daughter up from a Tae Kwon Do class being held at their local hall and met her tutor Allan France.
Tony had always had a fascination with flight. As a kid a hobby of his was model aircraft.
