[Sportsandrec] Find Your Fit

[Joe Shaw]

I disagree with the eyes open and shut test in anything as a rule. A blind 
person usually knows about being blind, while you're just shutting out the 
lights on a sighted person #applesandoranges
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From: "Kociaba Fitness via SportsandRec" <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
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Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Find Your Fit


> Cindy,
> Yes I was on around this time last year I believe. I had not been doing 
> the
> Lighthouse gig for very long so I figure it must have been in feb or march
> of last year.
>
> We did spend a fair bit of time talking about balance and how to improve 
> it
> as well as Kevin trying to debate the point that blind people have poor
> balance as a rule. I appriceate Kevin's "a blind person can do anything a
> sighted one can..." attitude but it's a simple fact that a lack of vision
> will lessen someone's balance.  I have proved it time and again by having
> sighted people do a balance test first with eyes open and again with eyes
> closed.
>
>
> Bill Kociaba
> www.kociaba-fitness.com
> "Building Better Bodies Since 1981"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SportsandRec [mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Cindy Ray via SportsandRec
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 9:54 PM
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> Cc: Cindy Ray
> Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Find Your Fit
>
> Bill, on Find Your Fit they were talking with Joe Shaw about these 
> Bulgarian
> Split Squats he was learning to do and discussing whether or not it is
> harder for blind folks to find their balance. Seems they may have 
> mentioned
> your name in there, too? Did you say you had been on one of the podcasts?
> Cindy
>
>
>
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