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Hi, Im Waqar and im an off-road addict!!

Got into desert driving, as part of work (work as an engineer in an oil and gas consultancy) when we had to go to site and i got stuck within 5m of the tarmac, didnt deflate or anything.

After that i said, i have to concur the desert! so bought me an Xterra (an upgrade from 1.3L manual Nissan Sunny) still have it as backup Its not the off road version but the SE! because of the vanity mirrors and its worth it

Attended my ANIT in Sept 2009 with 1000km on the clock, and i was hooked! Not to mention my mom who accompanied me (and still does). Bought me the gear, compressor, snatch, radio and from then on it was every weekend in the desert learning, sharing and having fun. I like making gopro vids and have mounted my gopro almost everywhere!

The marshals specially Banna, Mike, MooD, Wasabi, Rick took me under their wing and mentored me to the driver i am today and brought me upto the rank of Marshal. I also try to emulate and nurture our fresh offroaders to learn to tackle the dunes.

Along the way i met a lot of new people and made some really good friends and had some pretty amazing experiences, especially the GPS fun 2011 and Desnav 2012 with 9Ball and Triplod, ADAC with Wasabi and Xof and AD4X4 Marathon with some of the best desert drivers.

It was amazing to grow with the drivers who joined the club along with me, and it has been a great experience.

My name is Ali

Proud to be a member in this great family

Sand in winter and sea in summer

My name is imad irshaid, 34 years old from irbid, Jordan .
I am Team lieder at Finance House P.J.S.C.
I am driveing silver Jeep Wrangler 4 doors.
And am Proud to be member in AD4x4 family since 2008.

Hi everybody, I'm Smiley ( Anne Goecke) , married with 2 children.

We came to the UAE in 1997, where I fell in love with the desert immediately. Since then I'm driving off road.
I entered the club in 2007 and I love our big international family.

Driving wise I can adopt to any style, according to the need.
My ride is a SWB Patrol and you can always recognize me at the big yellow Smile in the back of my car.

I like to help organizing big events for the club like ADAC or DESNAV and my favorite area is Liwa, because it's just magic...

My Name is Eisa 35 years old single, I started going to the desert and doing offroad things for long time ago but as a passenger with my father and his falcons in order to hunt and train.

I started driving on the sand since I joined the club in 2011 after I bought my red jeep then started to search for a club.

My name is Hadeel Bilbisi, Jordanian national borne in Abu Dhabi; wokring as an Group Manager, HRin TUV Middle East.

My first trip with AD4x4 was as a passenger with Banna (الله يرحمه و يجعل مثواه الجنه) in a convey lead by Antrax and Iguana was sweeper and after that trip in 3 month it happened that I end up being a member after buying Xof car and since that day I never stopped being in the desert almost every Friday or when ever possible.

Proud to be an AD4x4 Marshal

Name : Cherif Hemaya -- Age : 37 -- Egyptian ; in UAE since 2007 Civil Eng. have my own contracting company ;
Liked offroading camping as well like motor yachting ; swimming and diving since I was in Egypt in Sinai mointains and deserts : joined the club in Aug. 2009.
By joining the club offroading became an addiction and specially by doing it between among a family ambient .
AD 4x4 is a big family

Hallo

My name is Guevara aka Stefano, working in oil & gas, living in Abu Dhabi since 2010. I drive a white 2009 X-Terra. Offroading and diving are my hobbies and I am part of the AD4x4 diving crew. I enrolled the Sanid program in UAE (the volunteers for the civil defence) in 2012. I was born in Italy 51 years ago

Guevara

As one of the new marshals. Hi, my name is Andrew, but everyone will know me as Scotchyl and I drive a new 2014 JK Rubicon with lots of toys. Although Scottish, I promise never to wear a kilt to the desert. Unsurprisingly I was born in Edinburgh and moved to Manchester after 12 years where family still live. I work as a valuer in Abu Dhabi for asteco and I have been in the UAE for 5 years.

Married to Melissa but no kids although we do have 2 extremely mischievous cats. I enjoy rugby, cricket and I am an active scuba diver.





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My name is Hangting .
I'm 27 years old (married )
I been in Dubai since 2003.
I 'm the frist chinese marshal . .
In my life I have three wifes , the frist one is my car ,second one is the mobile , the thried one is my real wife .
I'm joined the AD4X4 club in 2011,I love this club very much .And the club teach me a lot of things , how to in off road , how to make a trip and so on .thanks everybody to give me help .I will be do the better in the furture.

Hi, I am Walter from Germany.

Settled in Abu Dhabi in 2006 after many years in other countries in Middle East, Africa and Asia.
I am Electrical Engineer and help that you all have electric power in your houses and factories, streets,
airports and businesses.

I love the beauty of the desert, being able to go to places with 4X4, which would not be seen
otherwise.
My other interests are amateur radio, biology, languages, philosophical talk, cultures, geography,
any kind of technical matters.

Looking forward to meet people with open heart and spirit and comradry in the sand.

Hi All

I am Thom (pronounced Tom) and have been here in the UAE since the end of 2011. Although I am from South Africa, I regard myself as a bit of a global citizen having spent time in Africa, the UK and now here in the Middle East. I studied Civil Engineering and am now working as a Project Manager. My wife and I enjoy the outdoors (I am a bit of an adventure junkie) and in addition to finding us in the Jeep somewhere in the sand, you may also occasionally see me attached to a kite and a board near Yas Island, Mountain Biking near Shawka or doing the Train Yas thing on a Tuesday.
I look forward to meeting up with you in the sand somewhere.

My motto - Explore the desert, discover yourself.

Hi All.

The KID is back again and ready.
My name is Omar Daoud am in Abu Dhabi since 2000. Am banker just like others
I joined the club in 2008 and been offroading since long long time.
And been doing some offroad rallying like UAE Desert fun.

Love to be in desert camping as much as I can.
To know more about me you have to follow the KID with the yellow smiley car

I am Allan, 60 years old. Born in Denmark but have lived all over the globe since 1976. Married to “my one-and-only-she-who-must-be-obeyed-and-is-never wrong-beautiful wife”, Masha, who takes photos when joining me in the desert.

Used to be a shippingman now selling shoes.

We have five children and three grand children – luckily none of them staying with us.

Started off-roading in Dubai in 2003 and when we returned to Dubai in 2013, after a spell in Pakistan, Kuwait and the Philippines, our first objectives was to get a JK and go dune bashing.

We have been in the desert every weekend we have been free since then and enjoyed the dunes and the great company of the other members of AD4x4.

Are these the only Marshals we have? Where are the others? Come on guys don't be shy and introduce ur self please to know you and to know about you more


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