[Sportsandrec] question about other sports

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

I personally am doing a triathlon. I also do yoga and use an elliptical at
home in addition to powerwalking a lot. Sometimes I ride horses when at my
in-laws who have horses.

I have friends who golf, take aerobic classes, martial arts, ski, swim,
bike, fish, ride horses, run and wrestle.

I cannot think of a sport or athletic that can't be modified in some way to
accommodate a blind person.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Jon-Marc Eyer via SportsandRec
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] question about other sports

Im doing triathlon. Learning to be teathered during the swim and run. And
for the bike portion we use a tandem.
On Jun 16, 2016 12:36 PM, "Robert Moore via SportsandRec" <
sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Maryjane,
> Depending on how athletic you are or want to be, sports for the blind 
> are pretty wide open.
> I will give you a short list and if you have questions about   any of them
> please ask.
> This is in no way a complete list of all sports that blind people have 
> and can participate in.
>
> Beep baseball which is what I like to call a modified softball for the 
> blind. The ball beeps and the bases emit a constant buzz.
> Info can be found at
> www.nbba.org
>
>  goal ball I have not played it for decades so perhaps some one else 
> can give you a good short explanation.
>
>  Other less rigorous sports are  bowling which for people with enough 
> vision loss to need it,, uses a hand rail to line up your approach.
> There are blind dart legues all across the country.
>
> A lot of blind people ride tandom  IE  two person bikes.
>
>  Blind people also gulf which I have never done. Also Waterskiing, 
> down hill skiing, cross country skiing,
>
>  If you contact the united states association of blind  athletes they 
> have a lot of highschool and collegetype sports like track and field,  
> wrestling, gymnastics,  swimming and the list goes on and on. I read a 
> book that I got from the NLS for the blind that I will try to look up 
> for you that talks about all of these sports and probably more.
>  In the meen time if you use bard or any talking book service for the 
> blind, just look up sports for the blind or blind athletics.
> Hope that gives you a good starting point.
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf 
> Of maryjane via SportsandRec
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:00 AM
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> Subject: [Sportsandrec] question about other sports
>
> Hello what other spor is for the blind.
>
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