Sports for the blind

I'm starting goalball regularly at a club soon. Seems fun.

In my opinion, the longer you train showdown, the more interesting it is, but the advantage of showdown is that's simple for beginners. If you want to become a pro player, you have to learn a lot of. but if you want to play just for fun, it's quite easy, your opponent has to be at your level and that's all. I remember when I played showdown during my first month, my skills were at a beginner level, but I had a lot of fun.

For Goalball, I like to play best on the left but can play pretty much all three positions, to some extent. It just feels better when diving or blocking.

I also do three sides, but mainly I preferred the senter line. It was easy to get the ball.

I usually play on the right because I'm right handed, and it gives me more opportunities to throw cross court shots and so on, but I'm also surprisingly good in the middle. I'm small and agile enough to where I can play standing, so when I'm in the middle I usually stand and do a better job of positioning myself to stop the ball.

we play goalball at school during PE and I like it, not planning to join a real game though.

I do play all 3 sides of Goalball as well, but I mostly prefer the center line due to I can catch the ball easier.

You should try showdown. The off brand pingpong. Also swimming doesn't require much if any vision.

Swimming sounds fun. Never did showdown.
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You should try showdown. The off brand pingpong. Also swimming doesn't require much if any vision.

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Yeah Showdown is fun.
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You should try showdown. The off brand pingpong. Also swimming doesn't require much if any vision.

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Swimming is cool, I did it when I was younger. However, you need to find someone to help you because I don't think it's easy to get to a pool alone

I mean you'll need some good coach too if you want to do well but I think if you have a local pool and you know yur way around after someone maybe shows you once or twice I think it will be okay.

Yeah, true. It doesn't work for me though because all pools are too far away. The local one closed last year. I had a very good coach as a child, but I stopped swimming when I started going to the gym

Hey. Old thread but why not? Just came across it.

Over the past year I've found I've enjoyed sports way more. The ones I took further are goalball (the club I attend is taking a break so that's on pause rn), shwdown which I'm playing actively and hopefully soon para climbing. Been great.

So they're apparently trying to make icehockey for the blind popular here in germany. Anyone heard of that before? Appears to be a thing in canada already. It sounds kinda interesting but don't think that's really my vibe tbh.

I once was at a game that was audio described, but that was where sighted professionals played. I haven't heard of that, are there any differences or are you just being put up with a blindfolt?

So IIRC you play blind, and the puck or however it is properly named has something inside so it makes noise, otherwise it's pretty much the same rules acording to them.

Yeah so your usual way to make stuff accessible. I wouldn't be the one running around there and being able to collide with people each second but each their own.

Ye, get what you mean. I guess they expect you to babble all the time or something in order for others to know where you are but idk, I'm pretty happy with Goalball atm. Of course you have to communicate with your team members, but you mainly stay where you are.
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Yeah so your usual way to make stuff accessible. I wouldn't be the one running around there and being able to collide with people each second but each their own.
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Blind Ice Hocky? That sounds scary but also, I'd try it.
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