Week 6: Thursday October 25th- Sports

This session was hands down my favorite. I loved how we were all able to actively participate in a variety of adapted sports. I have had other classes where we talked about adapted sports but I never had the opportunity to learn the rules and play. The group facilitated adapted volleyball, basketball, bowling and gave us a taste of what a game of beeper ball would be like. I liked how all the sports were very simple to adapt. With volley ball and basketball the only equipment changes were lowering of the basket and net, other than that the court was just made smaller and a few rules were changed. Despite the changes I found both activities equally, if not more, fun than the non adapted versions. Like I stated earlier we also did bowling as if we were blind. They had us have a partner that helped us to line up our throw. This was fun but difficult and I don't know if I would enjoy playing this if I had a visual impairment because it is hard to be very independent. We also were lucky enough to have the adapted P.E. professor do a quick lesson on how to play beeper ball, which is an adapted version of baseball for people with visual impairments. After that we had the chance to try hitting the beeper ball while blind folded. I did surprisingly well at that. I think I am better at hitting when someone tells me to swing than when I can see and decide for myself! I have always loved being active and participating in sports and plan to use these adaptions and more in my future as a CTRS.