[stylist] Running with a cane

Fri Mar 13 04:58:51 UTC 2009

well Robert,
he was generally pretty good, taught me very well o&m, and as I said, 
things like situational awareness, etc.  yes, he was sighted, 
employed by the Monterey county office of education, this was in the 
70's, so he came to my school, and schools of many other students 
around the county.  like I said, the canes I was taught on were 
shorter than nfb-long canes.

the track I ran on was outside.
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 05:41 PM 3/12/2009, you wrote:
>Jim, you had some very poor advice from your O and M instructor. I bet he
>was a sighted guy. (Not really saying that all sighted O and M instructors
>are by their actions non-believers in the potential of the human race, but
>I'm just thinking he was from one of these O and M programs that are more
>into  --- well, I really don't know, but they do not think like we in the
>NFB do.) Boy, some of those guys, I'd love to poke their eyes out and make
>them live the limited existence that they believe in (make them take some of
>their own medicine).
>
>Interesting, when I worked as a massage therapist, it was in a YMCA in
>covenington, Kentucky and they had an indoor track. It was 27 laps per mile.
>I ran on it and did not use a cane. I kept to the outside where I could feel
>a slight rise in the floor boards. I put in 583 miles. And never had an
>accident.
>
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Re: [stylist] Running with a cane
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>I've remembered, it was my O&M instructor who told me quite plainly, don't
>run with a cane.  he was a great guy, taught situational awareness, the use
>of one's ears beyond sound, etc.  but we weren't using long canes.
>jc
>
>Jim Canaday M.A.
>Lawrence, KS
>
>At 12:41 AM 3/11/2009, you wrote:
> >oh granted.  when I was an undergraduate (at U.C. Davis) some guys
> >rigged up a trace string along the inside of the track and I could run
> >tracing my hand along it.  it was pretty cool.  I had a guide dog then,
> >so I dropped the harness and just had her run alongside me.
> >jc
> >
> >Jim Canaday M.A.
> >Lawrence, KS
> >
> >At 05:23 PM 3/10/2009, you wrote:
> >>Oops, wrong!   Though it probably depends on where you are running, and
>how
> >>long your cane is.   Dr. Jernigan made a film once in which he taught
>blind
> >>people to run.   Also, I took my friend Lisa to a mall quite a
> >>while ago, and we
> >>ran down the length of it.   She got a kick out of it.
> >>Lori
> >>
> >>In a message dated 3/9/09 1:44:30 AM, n6yr at sunflower.com writes:
> >>
> >>
> >> > robert,
> >> > are you watching too much reality tv these days?
> >> >
> >> > it was a very good way of presenting the skills of blindness.   but I
> >> > didn't think it was safe to run with a cane.
> >> > jc
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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