I’m not sure if you know that I am a world record holder. Did you also know that the other day that for no reason I got kicked out of the Performance Training Company gym in Timaru where I have been a member for over 9 years?
I have not only been kicked out of the gym but I have had a trespass order placed on me which prevents me ever going near the gym for 2 years and if I do I can get up to 3 months jail.
I’m sure people get kicked out of gyms every day but in my case I have never been told why. I must admit I tried to get into the gym one morning without my 10-day pass card and was refused entry.
They weren’t going to give me my money back either and I had to put it in the hands of a debt collector to get my money back.

Indoor Rowing
Pehaps we may have to go back a few years to find out the real reason why I was kicked out of the gym.
I was an indoor rower and a pretty good one at that and I was winning lots of medals at master’s games events.
I am also a motivational coach and one day a women member of the gym called Shirley Godkin came to me and asked for some lessons.
I coached her and gave her some encouragement and pretty soon others in the gym were joining in on my enthusiasm for the sport and we finished up with quite a good team of indoor rowers.
One year at the South Island Masters Games I coached and inspired 11 indoor rowers and we won over 40 medals at the games. Shirley Godkin and I both broke a couple of New Zealand records that year and Shirley presented me with a T-shirt that said thanks coach. It was a proud moment for us all.

Next Challenge
I had just clocked up a total of 10 million metres on a concept 2 erg and I received a reward from concept 2 for my achievements.
I had also rowed a couple of marathons and was looking for a new challenge so I suggested to the rowing team that we attempt to row 100,000 metres each in a day. I also suggested that we get some outside teams together and  row 1 million metres in a day on 10 rowing machines.

Victim Support
It was decided that we would raise some money for victim support.
To get some publicity we also decided to invite some celebrities to join in.
The police and the fire brigade were all invited. The celebrities we invited were Hamish Carter, Jonah Lomu, Susan Devoy, Helen Clarke and a host of others. We were to row the 1 million metres in a day in the Harvey Norman Store in Timaru.
It was at the time when the police in Timaru were facing charges of speeding in Helen Clark’s motorcade. So I asked victim support if we could use the money we raised to pay for the policeman’s fines.
The answer from Wellington was a big no and Victim Support told me they did not want me to raise anymore money for them.

Training & Organizing
There was quite a bit of organizing to do so we had a few meetings. The enthusasm from the rowers died down as the big day approached and at one meeting I held I was the only one that turned up. The next day a photographer and journalist from the Timaru Herald came into the gym to take our photos and I was the only one in the the gym that morning doing any training.
Because no one was prepared to do the organizing and no one was training I knew the 1 million-metre idea was destined to fail and I decided I did not want to be part of a failed attempt. 
I lost my cool and told the reporters from the newsmedia that if they wanted my photo and story it would cost them $5000 and I would use the money for the policemen’s fines in their effort to get Helen Clarke to see a rugby match. They left the gym with their tales between their legs.
I sent out an email sacking all the rowers who failed to come to the meetings and do the training. I then I did my own thing by myself in another furniture store.

World Record
I broke the world record and became the first man in the world over 60 years to row 100,000 metres in a 9 hour day. Tv One sport came to Timaru and ran the story.

All the rowers who failed to put in the hard yards were upset including the owner of my gym because he never got any of the publicity.

Rejected
None of the rowers speak to me anymore including the women I coached to become a New Zealand and world record holder. The Cheif Reporter of the Timaru Herald Paul O’Rourke wants nothing to do with me and wont report anything meaningful I have to say.
My reward from the people of Timaru for representing them at New Zealand masters games and being an inspiration at the performance training gym for over 9 years is a trespass notice served one me after 9 o’clock at night by a policewomen.

The Real Reason
The reason for a 2 year trespass notice to be issued on my by the people I once called my friends has never been disclosed to me and may never be.What do you think the real reason is?
Sabbotage
I got the answer when I went to work this morning someone had
put glue in my office door lock. Once I finally got into my office premises I found someone had put a photo of me through the letter box with words “What a Dick Head”
I resognised the photo and the hand writing it was taken by one of the people from the indoor rowing team and I remember them taking it and I also recognise the handwriting.
Isn’t strange I never thought that such a person could ever turn out to be such a coward. I could approach the person and cause a scene but why bother its their life and they have to live with their cowardly deeds

So what have I learnt from all this. I learnt that they are right they dont have to accept me as a member and dont have to give a reason. Below is an email from Tim Bean one of the owners of the gym

The Law
 Under international (and New Zealand) law a privately owned/operated health club is exactly that – a private membership club operating on private premises.  They are perfectly entitled not accept a membership from every or anyone if they so choose, even if they don’t fancy the colour shirt you wear, the rugby team you support or simply just don’t like you.  Further, there is no obligation upon them to provide any reason for not accepting a membership to any person or refusing entry to the premises.  They could also quite legitimately have any person arrested who, having been asked to leave previously, then re-enters the premises and/or fails to leave.  Just thought I’d mention that.

Tim Bean also has a theory on my charactor below is his email

Defamation of Charactor
Of course there is nothing to stop you spending your contributors money on such a wasteful exercise as issuing proceedings against Justin for discrimination and defamation of character, although it is my belief that in order to do so, one would first have to prove that one’s character was in fact of such good standing as to be devalued by defamation, and not elevated by it.

Serving of trespass notice
The completed Trespass Notice can be served by the occupier or an agent of the occupier with the occupier’s authority.
A professional “document server” or “process server” can serve a Trespass Notice on your behalf, for a small fee. Local document servers/process servers are listed in the Yellow Pages under Document Services or Private Investigators.

You will note that it does not say it can be served by a police officer. The police officer was in full uniform and was driving a police car. The questions I have is did she have authority to serve the documents in police time or was she getting paid under the table.

Summary
I have no desire to ever go into the Performance training company gym again under the present management.
One of the reasons I have gone public with this is that I have done nothing wrong and I want to warn others to beware of the nasty nature of these people.
If they treat one person this way they will treat others the same
and Timaru is not big enough for such a gym.