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Craig Fitzpatrick

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Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

Yes.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

Let me answer both.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

So I don't work for IBSA, for the International Blind Sports Governing Body.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

So forgive me if I get these definitions a little bit wrong, but a B1 is the most blind.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

It's considered completely blind.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

And that is you can't recognize the shape of a hand at any distance.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

So you might have some light perception issues.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

A B2, we try and equate that to around 5% vision.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

And a B2 is well worse than legally blind, but that's kind of that middle area where

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

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.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

And then B3s are usually the best blind hockey players.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

There are some exceptions to that, but by and large, the best players are B3s.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

And a B3 is your best corrected vision.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

is 2,200 or worse, or I believe less than 10% of your visual field.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

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.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

That's really a gray area because everybody's visual disability, especially if you've got a retinal condition, is a little bit different.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

And then B1s are considered completely blind.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

I was classified as a B2, and I was surprised by that.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

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.

Audiobook Café
Finding the Puck: In Conversation with Craig Fitzpatrick

So I compete...