What are the benefits of playing Goalball?
Well, it gets you out of the house, to start with… and you’ll get to meet other blind and visually impaired persons in your community. Other active, often adventurous people–who also happen to be blind or visually impaired, in your community. It can also help blind children and youths develop muscles and parts of their bodies that all too often don’t get the exercise and use that they were meant to. Too many blind children are not encouraged to strive and thrive as their sighted peers often are. By exercising. Whether it be with Goalball, tandem-cycling (a two-seater), or just running around, they use muscles that, left undeveloped, can lead to physical problems and deficiencies as adults. It helps you gain coordination, and helps develop your sense of direction, and, due to being blindfolded if you have ANY sight, also forces you to focus on your other senses–which helps to sharpen them. It also helps to build confidence. For a blind child or even a blind adult, coming to the real
