Attached to 10 cm Wire, how are visual disorders and their guidelines remain in synchronization and reach the finish line? Sideliner Lift the cover on the guide
Several partnerships in the Paralympic and Sports World are as important as a blind athlete and their guide. Often neglected, guides are glue that all happens.
Trust is vital, and the leader of the United King and Wales, James Ledger and his guide Greg Kelly, is not different.
“We are both athletes in my eyes. Without Greg, I can’t do what I do, “says the head.
In their first year, as a team, the hat and Kelly broke the British record of T11 in 100 meters, passing the line in 11.55 seconds.
“We knew it was fast. We could just feel it. When you wait for the clock to see what time is to see a “British record”, it’s just an incredible feeling, “says the” British record “.
“I run as fast as possible in the dark,” says Lady. “I have to trust Greg to gear, and that faith allows me to fly with my full potential. This is how we beat that post. “
Although Kelly never interpellated in his life, their friendship was quickly formed, and it was translated into results.
“When Greg first met, we became bloody good friends,” says Laders. “It simply came to our notice then. We understand each other much more. “
But what goes to find a guide fast enough to touch next to the fragrance of the world but useless enough to get the second to the line.
It was Instagram’s advertisement, which was laid by Ledger and his head coach Matias, which attracted Sprinter Kelya’s attention from Scotland.
“I don’t think the guide was running on my radar,” says Kelly. “But after seeing the advertisement and a conversation with James, I saw what his ambitions were to go to paralyxos and competing from abroad, I despered to go.”
Growing up, Kelly was always a sports lover and focused on football, but when they started a special screwdriver and national titles in Athletics, the athletes trained with all their heart.
After moving to Loffborou, he made progress in a race of his personal athletics, pushing 2022 cooperation games in Birmingham.
Meanwhile, it did not leave, the time straightened him to the path of the head.
“When I turned to James’ James Guide Runner – I didn’t have the region for it,” said Kelie. “I actually studied several youtube videos and listened to Feedback from James to our training courses.”
The absence of Kelly’s experience, as a guide runner, has never been a tempting block, as to the lead, which many emphasized each other and when building those relationships.
The guide is that the vision guide supports a visual-based runner, ensuring security and direction. The guide and runners are linked to 10 cm cord and communicate constantly to navigate together.
And by LEDGER, which has already worked through the guide, which ends in the 2018 Cooperation Games in Australia, as well as 2022 Birmingham games, he is currently an expert.
Ladder, 31, was born with two-sided coloboma in Swansea, a condition that affects his eyes and the eyes of the eyes, leaving him about 3% overall vision.
“Since a very young age, my parents quickly realized that the world does not have to be visually impaired,” he said.
He discovered after discussing his parents and realizing that the football team of the non-disability success did not make a desire to success at the bench.
LEDGER said: “Dad, I want to be quick.”
It rapidly progressed for a young run, and after joining Swansea Harriers Team, he was recognized as T12 athletes, but when his sight was rejected, he passed to T11, opening his eyes.
“One of the things I do not realize with becoming a athletes in T11 was how difficult it was to find a guide,” says Laders. “I needed a guide that could run 10 feet away in 10.5 seconds, but it’s not just about the run, they must guide me, communicate and run into them.”
However, 100 m Spurint is only one side of the guide running only. There is a lot in the events that they go through the finish line.
By navigating the place, making sure they have a safe place to warm up by heating and launching all the important factors that are often forgotten by viewers. And then comes the race where communication and instructions are mainly.
“I have received a load of technical signs I scream all over the race,” says Kelly. “At the top of the guide, it is almost a coaching role.
“Sometimes my signs” drive “or” are patient “, but I usually shout like 50 like James, so James should be in his” direct stage “and not drive.”
When they approach the final 10 meters, Kelly will rise to “10” and “will hit” by preparing the hat to prepare. But it doesn’t end there.
“When James leanes, I have to rely on to make sure he hits me on the line, otherwise we will disqualify.”
The result. “I have never beat James in the race.” Kelly laughs. “He always keeps that.”
Course when you are a pair of record holders, it causes another difficulty. With a Kelly, a little in Manchester and hat, most of their training is done separately.
“Obviously, in the world of dreams I would be on notebooks every day, but because of the location, it does not work. So we do, “says Kelly.
“We will take a long period of time, and next month we are going to a hot weather training, which is our best part to work all the interests.
In these enlarged periods of the course, Kelly can leave aside its work for a commercial real estate company and mastering the art of the guide, while keeping a clear chapter in a stressful environment.
This is key due to the clean speed of Ledger.
Kelly says:
However, life has not been life in the first year of working together.
Half of the mid-2024, half of 2024, in the middle of the Ledgery race, brought their 2024 paralympic aspirations to cease.
“To communicate that Greg, who was still running in a settlement, was very tough,” said Laders. “It simply came to our notice then.”
Kelly adds:
Despite the lines, their time was one, they would be proud of the season, they are now faster than ever and have a Paralympic of 2028.
The high levels and weaknesses of this profession are common, and before that injury was hindered by their season, success is something that has become Kela.
He says:
Sharing success for Bedger is something that comes as second nature, but recognition for guidance passengers does not always come easily. The medals were given only for 2012.
“There are many people who do what I do all over the world, who have their guide, apply to the path, go to the notebooks, because we can’t be on that path.
The ongoing role of the guide continues to effect something that Kelly always wants to push, because it benefits to all sides, he did not allow him.
“I know everyone around me, be friends, family, my club back home, and I work the company I really proud of me,” says Kelie.
And the head, his drive and the ambition of the ambition to help him hit him on heights, he never thought.
“A 14-year-old boy sat on the bench of a non-disabled football team, I would never believe that I could achieve these things.”
Ledger adds: “The guides are, of course, the unprocessed heroes of our sport.”
But thanks to the main athletes, they are more and more visible.
T11 is for runners – having a visual impairment nearby. Some can make 25 cm a subject, but everyone is competing through the vision guide with black glasses
T12 Paralimpic Runn is for athletes for athletes of moderate visual impairment. They have the opportunity to be treated with a guide or without a guide, depending on their vision level and personal preference
