The first time I went snowboarding, like most, I was a complete and utter mess. I had waterskied my whole life and thus skiing in general was easy to pick up. I figured that I could slalom pretty well and that Snowboarding must be sort of similar. Ya, I was wrong. I spent my first day on my ass for a solid 5 hours. I couldn't even go down a hill that required a chair lift. The thought of looking down the mountain plummeting down it at such speeds would surely be the end of me, not to mention everyone around me.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that 27 year old, Adil Latif, had done what I could not have dreamed imaginable, only he is blind. That's right Latif is legally blind. The Scottish native started going blind in his youth and by 15 had lost his eyesight. He had taken up skiing but he couldn't find a coach in Scotland that could teach differently abled people. He then set off for Utah, where there was a coach, Travis Thiele, that was certified to do just that. Now Thiele and Latif compete in snowboarding events around the world and he is set to compete in Canada this year.
It just goes to show you that if you can believe you can acheieve.
Read the entire story here.
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