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Blinders

Have you ever played a game where you had to wear a blindfold? It's a rather disorienting, and fascinating experience. In college my roommate was blind.  Dave was an exceptional human being.  He was an athlete who was a proficient Hockey Goalie, Downhill Skier, and he played for a para Olympic team--that he invited his other roomies--to come and play. The game was set on a volleyball court's dimensions, minus the net.  The lines were taped with a string underneath the tape.  There were 3 on a team, and if you think of the court divided in three sections horizontally where the 3 players would stand on the two sections at the ends, and the section in the middle (where the net would usually go) it was open. The goal was to take the medicine ball sized ball--which has 2 bells in it--and throw it so that it was on the ground by the time it was entering the middle section, and get it past the 3 players and cross the back line.  When you did so, your team received a point.