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Post by Nathan Tree on Nov 25, 2019 6:40:30 GMT -5
Hey all!
Do any of you also play for a sighted team? How do you manage? How do your team mates work with you?
I am the assistant captain and coach for the Oxford Universoty Vikings B team and I have just been classed as a B2
I use my visual impairment as a great excuse to make the team communicate, play their positions correctly and think about who they are passing to when sending one
I have many struggles during training and games as tracking the puck is so hard! I somehow make it work... i guess!
Last night i scored my first goal of the season on a breakaway from the neutral zone, beating the D and tucking the puck under the goalies catcher. From here i went to find the puck in the back of the net to be told it was a hard enough shot that it had popped out over to the face off spot!
So happy with progress and it drives me more to find more blind and VI players to play with in the UK
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Post by Josh Schneider - NY Metro on Nov 25, 2019 8:59:35 GMT -5
Hey dude,
That's awesome. Congrats!
I played mostly roller hockey growing up and played in college. I played a little ice and worked at an ice rink for two winters.
At 30, I went blind. I currently have no vision in my left eye and very restricted vision with tracking issue sin my right. So going to games ab dokayjbg was mostly not happening.
As I was washing dishes in September, I heard my TV playing the local news... "a group of disabled people are finding joy in a sport the never thoufht they would play. At New York Metro Blind Hockey... *. I stopped the dish on the floor.
So ive practiced twice with the blind team. I also since then, have done a dticknsnd Puck with a buddy. And then done two adult clinics. I have a lot of hockey experience, so I know what is going on. But I am still a liability to a sigbmhted team on the ice because it's hard for me to pick up the Puck.
The game is also much faster. The Puck and the skating.
I am considering playing, but will only play in a game with a partner, one of my boys growing up.
But, I'm seriously considering doing an actual open hockey or a low level competition.
I'd love to keep tabs to see what you're doing.
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Post by Ted - NY Metro on Nov 29, 2019 7:50:23 GMT -5
My son plays both sighted and blind. With correction in he can play with the High School team but he definitely doesn't track the puck as well as others and his distance vision is not that great. When he plays blind hockey he takes his correction out and is legally blind. He really loves playing blind hockey. He says it makes him feel free and that he is on the same level as others on the ice.
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