[blindza] Re: Strange thoughts relating to a form of blindie ball game
- From: "Magda" <magdafelgate@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:53:36 +0200
Very good thinking Jacob. Ahi, a very big role of masking tape for the
players, mouths? Hahaha!
Keep on thinking; you may just come up with something that you can sell to a
interested orgenisation. xx
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From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: 04 October 2012 08:50 PM
To: NAPSA Blind; BlindZA
Subject: [blindza] Strange thoughts relating to a form of blindie ball game
Just thinking - and no idea why it came up in my mind, except that, for what
it's worth, in old sighted days at school, I used to play field hockey,
which uses a smallish hard ball similar to a traditional cricket ball - that
aside from not really thinking it would be the best idea to let blindies run
around on a playing field, with hard/dangerous sticks in their hands, if you
had a largeish playing field, but with a really smooth/clean/possibly
hardish surface, and you used something similar to a normal blindie cricket
ball, with a bell inside it, and the whole surface was a sort of shallow,
but concave surface, with the lowest point being sort of at the centre of
the playing area, then, even if everyone lost the ball, or wasn't sure of
it's location, then everyone could just keep quiet, and you might be able to
hear it rolling towards the centre of the playing field/playing area...?
And, yes, do realise you could just as easily implement a form of beeper
inside the ball, but, on the other hand, if, for example, it was being
pushed/whacked around using something like a hockey stick, then it's rather
unlikely that any form of electronics inside would last too long...<smile>
And, yes, part of the idea of this would be to then avoid needing to make
use of any sighted sideline companions to keep letting you know about the
location of the ball, like I think they do for things like blindie soccer,
etc...?
However, you would definitely need to do something to still let guys
navigate the playing area/field as such, but, suppose that could be
implemented using sort of target audio tones on the four corners of the
field, with distinct/different sounds, as well as something like each goal
area, and the sides of the halfway line also having their own, different
sounds, or something.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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