[Sportsandrec] Martial Arts and Sports

[Ashley Bramlett]

Saadiq,

glad you joined the list; yeah, this  is one of the quiet ones. I think its 
less subscribers and just low traffic as people are busy in their lives.
I'm not really doing a sport, I simply like recreation. but, I'm here as I 
always have interest in how people adapt sports and rec.

I've contemplated the martial arts; and actually tried aikido several months 
when I found out my blind friend was taking lessons  and it was  a class for 
the vision impaired population; she was the only one in the class and it was 
neat to join her.

Can you tell us more about BJJ? How often are classes? is everyone sighted 
you work with? How long did you do it
Are you the beginning rank? That is a good martial art I've heard.

I was also wondering if that involves kicks and punches. if so, how do you 
take the defensive stance without seeing the move coming?
In judo I know everything is contact; meaning your opponent does something 
to you by touching you, so you know what is happening. Makes it more blind 
friendly.
Curious about BJJ as I've thought of trying it.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Eisa Saadiq Crawley via Sportsandrec
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 6:06 PM
To: sportsandrec at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Sportsandrec] Martial Arts and Sports

Hello everyone, my name is Saadiq and I am new to this list. The reason for 
this message is to see how many blind martial artist are out there? I am 
looking to network with some of you. I am located in west palm beach Florida 
and have a background in Brazilian jujitsu and judo. I also wanted to know 
why this list is not more active? I know there have to be a lot of you that 
really enjoy sports and would love to see more discussions on GoalBall and 
other sports that people are participating in as I am new to all of this. 
Thanks for any feedback and looking forward to hearing from you.

E S Crawley
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