How long have you been a competitive eater?

How long have you been a competitive eater?

Ian "The Invader" Hickman (Competitive Eater) gives expert video advice on: Why did you want to be a competitive eater?; How long have you been a competitive eater?; What's so great about competitive eating? and more...

I guess I've been competitively eating all my life in a joking sense because I've always wanted to out-eat, you know, the next guy or, you know, my friends and things like that. Just because it's fun and, you know, it's always like "How many pancakes could you eat?," or, you know, "I bet you can't eat that whole plate of whatever." But professionally I've been eating since, I guess, June of 2005.