Fanon Sluisdom

[jay helfert]

I just met Fanon last month at the WPC. A big, good looking sweetheart of a guy. And he loved pool and was sending reports back home to the Netherlands. He actually interviewed me one day.

If you look on the Home page of AZ, you will see Mike Howerton's report on his untimely death in an auto accident. I am sickened by this news. What a great guy and he LOVED pool! Another wonderful life cut short.

 

[Kimmo]

I can vouch for that. Fanon was definitely one of the 'good guys'. Always ready with a joke, greet you with a smile, yet be tough and concentrated opponent at the table.

You might not now, but Fanon was already involved in a bad accident a year or two ago if I remember right. He was near losing his life already then when having an accident with his scooter. It took him a long time before he was playing again, but he never lost his sense of humour and dedication.

I can also remember a time once when Fanon lost a bet about something, and as penance, he committed to do a full hour of racking for anyone wanting to do some break-practise....and this while wearing his motorcycle-helmet!

Pool-word has definitely lost one of it's finest....not perhaps world-killer....yet anyway....and now we'll never know!

My condolences to the family!

Kimmo

 

[Double-Dave]

Fanon was very well known and liked in our small country.
He did a lot of work for pool, it's almost unreal after his big accident a while
ago that now it's happened again, but this time fatal.
I never really got to know Fanon, mainly because he played a few balls
above me and we never played in the same leagues.
He LOVED pool, and must have had the time of his life in Manilla, at least he has had that.

One of the funniest things I read in his In Memoriam thread
on the dutch forums was when he first qualified
to play in the GP (the Top 32 Ranking Tournaments with Feijen, Lely and co.),
he brought along a donut for everyone.....


RIP Fanon.