It’s been quite a while since my last episode of How to become a Memory Champion. The last time I introduced you to the disciplines where you have to memorize random words. Today we will have a look at the discipline Historic/Future Dates.

The days to the World Memory Chamspionship 2009 are getting fewer. The entire sport is patiently waiting for the cracking event in London. It is the perfect time to ask you some questions about this years biggest memory competition. Please vote with us and see what the community is thinking.

Each memory athlete has to learn and train one to several memory systems. In most cases they have at least 100 peg words. If they are really ambitious they go for even bigger systems with up to thousands of pegs. A great software to support memorizing those pegs would be the free Mnemosyne Flashcard Program.

The countdown is ticking: Over the 12th/13th/14th of November the 18th World Memory Championship takes part in the Strand Palace Hotel in London, UK. It will be the biggest and most important WMCS ever. Right now already 99 competitors from 18 countries are registered and wait for this epic battle.

This is a happy day for Memory-Sports.com: The baby brother Memory-Masters.com is (re)born. After its already been a host for a memory forum it is now a proper and full-size website with articles about mnemoic learning. My associate Charles Cave and I are publishing articles about fascinating memory techniques on a weekly basis.

After each memory championship Memory-Sports is writing a review about the competition. Read about the 1st Swedish Memory Championship in Gothenburg. Several Competitors wrote their statement about this event and like always I publish the best pictures I took. Read, download and have fun.