Sports Without Sight: The sound-driven world of blind athletes
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Dallas Taylor
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:35.6 | Whether it's a roaring crowd, |
| 0:47.8 | a referee's whistle, a referee's whistle, a shouting coach, or a blaring goalhorn. |
| 0:55.0 | Sound is a crucial part of basically every major sport out there. But there are some sports where sound does more than just call out a foul or ring in a goal. |
| 1:01.0 | In these games, players are totally reliant on sound to know where they are in relation to the ball, to the field, and to each other. |
| 1:09.0 | These sports are built around the experience of hearing, |
| 1:11.6 | and during a game, players have to be hyper aware of every sound around them. |
| 1:20.6 | Set, ready, pitch. |
| 1:23.6 | My name is Subalo, Ethan Johnston, and I am a blind athlete. |
| 1:35.3 | Ethan was born in Ethiopia, but grew up in Missouri. |
| 1:39.1 | As a kid, he loved sports, but his partial blindness made playing them really difficult. |
| 1:45.0 | I played soccer and, you know, just typical club soccer back from like fourth grade |
| 1:51.2 | all the way to eighth grade. |
| 1:53.1 | But obviously that was an adaptive, so it's hard. |
| 1:55.2 | The best part about it, I have a lot of brothers and sisters, so we're always on the same |
| 1:59.0 | team so they'll say, Ethan ball on the right. |
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