[Sportsandrec] sports equipment

[Lori]

Jody,

I think it is great that you have tried a variety of martial arts.

And, I'm glad to hear of another barrel racer. I know of a young girl in TX 
and it is always good to hear of others. If you are not already in contact 
with her, may I share your contact info with her?

When I showed English Equitation in open 4H shows, I went without a headset 
at first, but found that there were times that having info was useful so we 
had headsets where the instructor could talk to me but not give coaching and 
I could not speak to her.

For dressage, we used what we called, Living Letters. A person stands at 
each of the nine letters and calls out the letter name. For practice I often 
only rode with one living letter X in the middle and based the patterns off 
of the letter in the middle. I believe a blind rider had been designing an 
electronic version to eliminate the need for nine people to train and show, 
but I'm not sure what ever happened with it.

Lori

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
<sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] sports equipment


> Hi Lori,
>
> I started in judo and I now have a third degree black belt in judo and a
> second degree black belt in jui-jitsu.  I have also studied aikido,
> aiki-jitsu, jodo, tai chi chuan and now I have started Krav Maga and BJJ.
>
> I rode English when I was a kid but now I ride only Western.  I love
> everything about western from the style of riding to the whole culture,
> clothing and cooking.  I am actually training to barrel race.  I have
> discovered three other blind barrel racers online.  I use a two way radio
> and my husband fine tunes my direction.
>
> Happy Trails,
>
> JODY
>
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