What if you were blind?
What then if someone unknown touched you?
How is the loss of sight affecting your attitude, your movement and your posture?
What are the long-term psycho end physical implications of this?
How could a training program be tailored specifically for the Visually Impaired or Blind?
In this first interview, we start to dive into all this with Peter W. Sands, registered blind based in West London, UK.
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My experience with Soft Tissue Massage Therapy was fundamental in developing this program by providing me with many practical tools to develop the ideas and methods of MA Training.
My first objective through this undergraduate course in Sport Psychology is to gain a deeper understanding of:
I'd plan to achieve this by conducting a series of research interviews within the community in order to gain quantitative and qualitative data.
The second objective is to to further develop and refine the MA Training program based on the outcome of the research and to build on the success that I have achieved so far.
Peter Sands (Chairman of the London Sports Club for the Blind) is registered blind himself and he trained MA Training for 18 months.
He now says that
"The training has personally helped me to feel confident in crowded situations, be aware of my posture alignments and overall has improved my balance."
If you are visually impaired or blind, or if you know someone who is, and would like to take part to the series of Martial Attitude Voice podcast interviews exploring touch, confidence and blindness or if you would like to join in the Martial Attitude Training workshops now running in London every Sunday, please do keep in touch via Instagram or according to your communication preferences, all available HERE.
Sincerely,
Mathias Alberton
Founder CEO at Martial Attitude C.I.C.
BPS trainee Sport Psychologist
MSc in Applied Sport Psychology at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK.
