Prince William’s Blind Archery Lesson
Prince William of Wales (2007)
As you may remember, I already wrote a little bit about disabled archery in January. It is possible to do archery with several different types of handicaps and as seen at the Para Archery World Championships 2009, blind archery is getting more common among the different types of disabled archery. Yesterday, the British BBC just published some pictures of Prince William of Wales having an archery lesson – also blind.
During a visit to the new specialist centre for blind ex-service men and women “St Dunstan’s” in Llandudno, he took the time to try this advanced level of archery. To simulate blindness, he put on a blindfold that was given by the former private hospital as part of the lesson. Even though Prince William got instructions by blind archer Clive Jones, he apparently was not able to hit the target.
I am not allowed to publish any of the pictures on archeryimages, so here is a link to the BBC:
View the pictures on news.bbc.co.uk
