Disability rights movement! You may have seen or heard this phrase "Disability is not limitation" repeatedly in different places like TV programs, banners on streets, text messages, and so on. This phrase is a fact, and physical impairments do not make people disabled. Some people may have some problems or…
What do you think when you hear the words vision impairment, visual impairment, or blindness? Do you know anything about their differences or know that blindness means not seeing things? To have a better understanding, it's necessary to understand their differences. The differences Visual impairment is a condition in which the…
All of us have heard the word disability. Many of us do not have a clear understanding of disability definition in our minds. Some of us have bad and annoying feelings about this word, and we sympathize with people with impairments. When we hear the word disability, we imagine a…
Polybat was created in the 1980s in the United Kingdom and brought to Portugal in 2016. Initially created to answer people with cerebral palsy, today, it plays by everyone! People with or without disabilities from 6 to 96 years old participate in tournaments organized by the Portuguese Federation of Sport…
What do you think of being an athlete? How much do you know about athletes' lives differences compared to other people? Do you think that being an athlete is being like a superhero? Well, the fact is that heroes are not supernatural people. They are just ordinary people with motivation…
What images come to your mind when you hear the word athlete? A RaceRunner? A Goalball player? A blind football player or a Boccia player? What do you know about being an athlete and their lifestyle? Who is an athlete? A person who competes in one or more sports, which…
Classification System As in other modalities, in Polybat, athletes compete according to the sport classifications or by area of disability. Competitive classes: • Division 1: Players in a wheelchair with a minimal range of motion have difficulty recovering their vertical position after hitting the ball. Difficulty covering the entire width of the table,…
Polybat, or side table tennis, as it is also known, was created in England in the mid-1980s. The activity emerged as a recreational alternative for those who did not have the profile of Boccia and could not practice conventional Table Tennis. The characteristic profile includes those who have muscular dystrophy,…