Jacob Szymanski

But speaking of blind hockey, I am not backing down in saying that it's one of the most bonkers para sports I've ever seen.

And I will ask the question that everyone who's hearing about blind hockey for the first time is wondering, is blind hockey as dangerous as it sounds?

You would assume that there would be collisions, but I suppose that speaks to the skill set that you develop as players.

You're not just out there running like madmen.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

That's the important factor in all of this.

But for the people who have never heard of it, I only gave a very brief description of what it is.

I want to hear it in your words, which is probably something you've done a million times.

Describe blind hockey.

What is it like?

Yeah, and I heard that even as a blind participant, even as a blind audience member, you can still sort of follow the game because of the way the puck rattles and the skates of the players.

You can also kind of track that, plus the ref whistles in specific ways that kind of give you context clues as to what's going on.

And you can follow the game pretty closely, which is really cool.

Now, you wrote this memoir where Blind Hockey takes a big part of not just your life, but also this book.

So what was it that led up to you deciding to sit down and write this memoir?

Yeah, no kidding.

And nowadays, it is a big accomplishment to be published.

That's not an easy thing to achieve.

And for people who are picking up this book for the first time, what can people expect?

Tell us about it.