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  • Tricks Behind Boat Training

    The objective of this post is to provide behind the boat tips to help you achieve the on water performance needed to qualify to compete at a National Championships. This old dog described the Tricks qualification Requirements in a prior post. If you are not ready to get wet yet, you can check out the

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  • Tricks Dryland Training

    The objective of this post is to provide dryland tips to help you achieve the on water performance needed to qualify to compete at a National Championships. This old dog described the Tricks Qualification Requirements in a prior post. When you are ready to get wet, check out the Tricks Behind Boat Training post.  The

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  • Tricks Qualification Requirements

    You probably have been told, “you cannot teach an old dog a new trick”. With some luck, maybe this old dog can teach a new blind water skier a trick or two about learning to compete. Goal Get you qualified to compete in the Tricks and Audio Slalom events at the 27th USA Adaptive Water Ski

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  • Audio Slalom Marking Your Boat

    I have been asked a few times if it is possible for someone to start practicing audio slalom without an Audio Slalom Signal Generator (ASSG). Specifically, how wide does the skier need to get to score an audio slalom buoy? This quick hack will allow you to place marks on the right-side and left-side of

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  • Audio Slalom – Learning To Compete

    If watching this video does not get you excited about learning how to compete in Audio Slalom, maybe you should try a different sport. Let me give a huge shoutout to my daughter, Taylor, for editing this exciting footage from the 2019 IWWF World Disabled Waterski Championships. She also added audio description, closed captions, and

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  • Making Friends And Getting The Gear

    This post provides contact information for the people who assisted and the vendors used as I gathered the gear needed to allow me to start hunting as a totally blind man. Once again I found that as with many challenges, “making the right connections and using the correct technology can turn something you did not

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  • The Eyes Free Sports Podcast

    While Wendy and I were in Florida attending Grace’s Puppy Raiser Reunion, we had the opportunity to have lunch with Greg Lindberg, the host of The Eyes Free Sports Podcast. To learn more about Greg, check out Episode 100. I shared how the first podcast I listened to featured Guiding Eyes Outdoors, and thank Greg

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  • You Got This Grace

    The entire Royal Family was able to attend Grace’s Puppy Raiser Reunion and meet Beth, Grace’s forever person. This was an extra special reunion as it was the first time all Royal Family members were able to attend in person. Grace is the fourth puppy wendy has raised for Southeastern Guide Dogs and the third

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  • Successful Whitetail Doe Hunt

    The photo above is me with the second whitetail doe my hunting companion, Kirk Musgrove, and I harvested between 3:00 and 5:00 pm on January 15, 2024 during an extended doe hunting season in Kerr County, Texas. The Winchester XPR 300 Win Mag purchased from Helotes Tactical and the Accufire Noctis V1 sight are included

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  • ready wrestle

    Making this post, I find myself with fond memories and a sad heart as I just learned my high school wrestling coach recently passed away. Back in seventh grade, while still living in Lincoln, I started to Wrestle. As there were no fast-moving balls involved in the sport, wrestling would become the first sport I

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