380 – Interview with Brian Bushway & Tom Izdebski from Acoustic Athletics, Learning to Use Auditory Information in Sports

Can athletes learn to use the auditory information available in a
sports environment to improve their performance? Can we see all
around us with sound?


For those that aren’t familiar with his story, Brian Bushway
started to go blind when he was 14 and now has no response to
light at all. But amazingly he can still see! Brian has learned
to echolocate. That is, he uses the auditory information that
naturally occurs in our environment, the sounds bouncing around
off objects, to localize and identify objects and events. He uses
this to mountain bike, ice skate and perform a host of other
activities. Now, with the help of Tom he is trying to teach
athletes to do this, both those that visually impaired like
himself and normally sighted athletes.


 


Links:


https://acousticathletics.com/
https://www.brianbushway.com/


Videos:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvH7NF4MSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWbWBWH8OYk


 


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http://perceptionaction.com/


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