[Sportsandrec] How Did we Play Them?
Peter Donahue
pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 3 01:24:03 UTC 2009
Hello Karen and listers,
I hope I'm not the only one who participated in sports during my school
years prior to the development of games like Goal Ball and Beep Baseball.
Perhaps others should weigh in and share their sporting experience to
enlighten us all. I think this would make a great article for "Competition
Corner."
Let me say publically that Karen is a wonderful person to work with. She
and I worked together last spring to make audio-only versions of the
"Straight Talk About Vision Loss" video series produced by the Jernigan
Institute available. Likewise Mary and I hope you had a blessed holiday
season too. Now to eat some supper.
Peter Donahue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Zakhnini" <kaycee510 at hotmail.com>
To: <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Adapting Sports for the Blind
Hey there Peter,
I completely understand where you are coming from, and, as I said, I agree
with much of what you say. I hope that you had a great holiday. Please
tell Mary "hello" for me.
Karen Zakhnini
"Was it something I said or something I did
Did my words not come out right"
Every Rose Has Its Thorn--Poison> From: pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net> To:
sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:07:57 -0600> Subject:
[Sportsandrec] Adapting Sports for the Blind> > Hello Karen and listers,> >
The only thing I'll say about it all is that my personal experience >
playing conventional baseball with the adaptations made for blind players >
prior to the development of beep baseball flies directly in the face of >
everything that has been said. We had our share of injuries but never >
received bad press over it. I went to the Oak Hill and the Perkins Schools >
for the Blind. There we played all sports according to the rules for sighted
> players with only the adaptations necessary to accommodate byline players.
> Some of these included running lines to guide blind track runners who
chose > to use them, pitching baseballs on the bounce from the normal
distance, > wrestling matches starting from a standing position with both
opponents > touching fingers, metronomes placed on basketball hoops and
archery targets > so blind players knew where they were, the use of bowling
alley rails to > help blind bowlers line up to throw the ball, inclines to
allow > wheelchair-bound blind persons to bowl, I think you get the idea.
Balloons > were also placed on the archery targets so the participant knew
when they > hit it. They popped when struck by the arrows. And all of this
before I > found the National Federation of the Blind.> > Thus the comments
I've made on this subject are deeply rooted in my own > experience. Perhaps
now It's easier to understand my shock and disgust when > this thread began
and the concerns coming out of it. While I'm still not big > on schools for
the blind for totally unrelated reasons I'm relieve to know > that they did
some things right. Now to finish up a Web Site. Happy new year > from Mary
and myself.> > Peter Donahue> > >
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