Avenged Sevenfold and Sports

Avenged Sevenfold and sports , what's the relationship between them ? At first you might think that there's no way that the guys are athletes or into the sports but don't judge the book by its cover and let's us see the athlete side of Avenged Sevenfold.
We will start with who we think is the most athlete of the band, M.shadows.
At his young age Matt's life was all about basketball , he was gifted with a great basketball talent, knowing also that his mom and dad were basketball coaches and he was coached by his mom on his elementary basketball team and his dad coaching his club team.
Although Matthew had a great talent and he was playing very good but he couldn't handle the pressure of his parent to be successful on this game and one day while his father was pushing him to do jump shots he said "Dad, there has to be more to life than basketball. ". Years later Matt left the basketball.

M.shadows watching a basketball game

Shadows is a big fan of the Lakers NBA basketball team and he holds season tickets to their games.

Another sport that M.shadows loves to play is Golf . In october 2014 issue of Golf Digest magazine it was mentioned that Matt started playing Golf to prove to Larry Jacobson (the manager) that it is just an easy game .

"When their manager talked rocker members of California-based Avenged Sevenfold into hitting balls at a golf-resort concert venue in 2007, lead singer M. Shadows jumped at the chance, thinking it would be easy. What has kept him coming back to the game is how hard it turned out to be."

Matt has a handicap of a around 12, which is a numerical measure of a golfer's potential playing ability based on the tees played for a given course.

M.Shadows and Matt Heafy (Lead vocalist of Trivium) playing Golf

M.shadows in the Duffing for Dollars Charity Golf Tournament

Matt has also mentioned being a fan of the American football team Green Bay Packers, but the band in general have mentioned the LA Raiders as their favorite team.
Matt has also been a member of the MMA academy and he loves lifting weights.

Now that's all we know about M.shadows's sport life so let us move on to see Synyster's favorites sports.

I believe that most of you have seen this pictures before :







Yes ! Ladies and Gentlemen's that is Synyster Gates playing some aggressive sport and it's called Jiu Jitsu.
While we were searching on the internet we found this article of a fighter named Jay Jack talking about his training session with Brian and he said :

"...Synyster Gates asked us to come by and train before the show tonight...He was very cool to the group of us that showed up to train. Offering everyone passes to the show. He was solid practitioner. Very into BJJ, and open to new techniques. I was really impressed with his dedication to the style. I know most people would just give up on training while on the road, but this guy always makes time. Admirable. More people should have that kind of dedication." 
 Source : Here

Synyster with Jay Jack and other fighters

Will A7X Come to Morocco ?

Some of you have already saw the video when M.shadows was asked in The Renman Show if Avenged Sevenfold are planing to come to Morocco , others may not saw it yet so here's the video :



So basically the story behind this video is that Renman did announced days before that he's gonna do an interview with M.shadows and that anyone can ask him questions on the comments section and two of the A7XM team did ask the same question which is "Will Avenged Sevenfold come to Morocco ?" and of course Larry Jacobson (The manager of A7X) said : "It's sounds like fun" and M.shadows said that the band will visit a lot of places in 2016 . Now this can be true or it might not be so let us see why :

1- The band is off the road right now and it's almost impossible that they can know where they're hitting in the next tour. So first they need to have some free time before starting writting the  next album and after the album release they'll start with a tour as usually in USA, Canada, and then Europe and the rest of the world.

2- It's not M.shadows or Larry Jacobson who decide whether to come to our country or not but it's the whole band including the tour managers ...etc.

There's only two cases where the band can do a show in any place of the world :
3- First one is when they choose that place to be included in their tour and for that they'll need to guarantee that tickets we'll be sold so they can pay for the venue and all the other charges .

4- Second case is when they're invited by a Festivale or a TV show...ect , now in that case the charges of the band are taken by the festivale for example.

Now as we saw the possibilites of having Avenged Sevenfold in Morocco you'll realize that it's almost impossible that the band will include our country in any of their tours cause they have no idea how bigger their fan base here, but in my personal opinion the only case where A7X can give us a show here is if any Moroccan Festival invited them and we all know that there's one big festivale that can afford the price and can give a great stage to the band and that festivale is Mawazine.
Fortunately that Mawazine had inveted a lot of big rock bands and artist like Scorpions, Deep Purple, Robert Plants...ect so I'm pretty sure that a band like Avenged Sevenfold can fit in the festivale.
Now Mawazine also has to make sure that the tickets will be sold out and for that we need to make our community bigger then what it is right now and show to the A7X and Mawazine that we deserve a show here in our lovely country.