Craig Fitzpatrick
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Yes.
Let me answer both.
So I don't work for IBSA, for the International Blind Sports Governing Body.
So forgive me if I get these definitions a little bit wrong, but a B1 is the most blind.
It's considered completely blind.
And that is you can't recognize the shape of a hand at any distance.
So you might have some light perception issues.
A B2, we try and equate that to around 5% vision.
And a B2 is well worse than legally blind, but that's kind of that middle area where
You have less vision than somebody that is on the line of being legally blind, but you don't see well enough to be considered a B3.
And then B3s are usually the best blind hockey players.
There are some exceptions to that, but by and large, the best players are B3s.
And a B3 is your best corrected vision.
is 2,200 or worse, or I believe less than 10% of your visual field.
So that's where we get the approximation that we say B3s have around 10% of their vision, B2s have around 5% of their vision.
That's really a gray area because everybody's visual disability, especially if you've got a retinal condition, is a little bit different.
And then B1s are considered completely blind.
I was classified as a B2, and I was surprised by that.
That classification came in 2018 when I was trying out for Team USA, and I thought, because I've got Stargardt's disease and because I've still got peripheral vision that's fairly consistent around the outside, that I would classify as a B3, but you could call me a high B2.
So I compete...