The World’s Best Blind Mountain Biker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Anyone who rides a mountain bike on downhill terrain knows how perilous it can be. Well, imagine riding downhill without being able to see. Brian Bushway is a pro at it. Known as the world’s best blind mountain biker, he lost his sight when he was 14. Wanting to discover alternative ways to explore the world, Bushway learned how to see with sound. Like bats, he relies on echolocation when he mountain bikes, using sound to locate objects.
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This guy would've slaughtered in BirdBox
Damn he run over da evil psychos
He could go anywhere without worrying the monster
Omggg yesss
now, *THIS* is a story worth sharing!!!
he has superman's hearing ability 👂
Josh Witte an 11 year old drag queen.
Kipzilla It's because that josh guy was one of the gay guys in the gay bar tipping him to get more naked
@@rigo.acosta that would explain it
@@JoshWitte you gotta admit an 11 year old performing in bars is fucking weird man
@@JoshWitte isn't it like a thing to get paid to perform at bars? Usually sexually?
The worlds best!?!? There are more!?!?
Well we are around 7b people
It must be someone else
to the producers, there is none
just the marketing
but of course the world is big
R/whoosh
you?
Yup there are many many more. Check out Erik Weihenmayer's No barriers foundation and Adventures Beyond Barriers foundation.
This is a perfect example of “anything is possible”. Of course it is hard but he made it work and now he is sharing his knowledge
Congrats for being so courageous and generous.
I can’t bear to imagine the world’s _worst_ blind mountain biker...
JH Sounds got an audible laugh out of me 😂
I also got a good chuckle.
Damn that echolocation thing is hard. I tried it
EDIT:Woah thanks for 250 likes!
Were you able to find your Toyota Echo?
wat
try in the dark room...
@@firmansyah-ln9nm i tried and i broke my legs
@@scotthenrie5674 no sadly
That's actually the best story so far.
I agree
Watch The Blind Surfer videos!
This man deserves a trophy
He didn't receive one for this?
Why?
Navigating solely by echolocation is really hard in unfamiliar territories or at a high speed, like with biking. Brian is amazing that he can do this!
SixBlindKids doing it at low speeds it’s hard to
I was expecting from the title of the video they'd focus a bit more on his riding. People going blind and relearning how to engage the world are a dime a dozen (no offense to Brian). I'm assuming access roads and fire trails and low level obstacle closed track and not 15-20 mph technical trails or downhill. I seriously doubt his echo location is so fine tuned that he's able to visualize a tight/ narrow trail throuigh the woods with sharp turns and constantly changing terrain.
Here is a qualified example of a proper report showcasing someone riding a bike using echo location: th-cam.com/video/Z_E3zxx2l9g/w-d-xo.html (this guy is doing it on the steet - and I'm not questioning Brian's process to go off-road if that is in fact what he is doing); but riding a mountain bike on the street or in areas where there are minimal obstacles does not make one a mountain biker just like if my grandma got onto a skateboard tomorrow - that doesn't make her a skateboarder - that only means she rode a skateboard.
AND here is an actual video showcasing Brian actually hitting high speed and taking on huge obstacles in a better report than this garbage video (which also showcases BNrian meeting Daniel and being inspired to get back on his bike): th-cam.com/video/HH3PEZoCYy0/w-d-xo.html. ANyone can slap a video on YT - learn how to provide decent content that properly reflects the subject in the title instead of click-baiting viewers.
@@uberfu he does mountain bike tho
Real life daredevil 😍
I'm taking up cycling now, I lost my functional vision about 2 years ago but a year in I was on a bike in Santa Fe in the summer, at an empty ski resort...I was able to do it and by myself. The back tire only slid out once! Now I'm going to purchase a bike and go for it. 🗽
Now this is an *actual* Great Big Story!
Just watched a Ted talk on a vibrating vest that could allow the deaf to feel sound and hear, and headgear to allow the blind to hear their environment from a camera.
Brian is a gat dang badass. It’s hard enough to mountain bike without being blind. Really inspires me to ride my damn bike. Go Brian!
Incredible! What an amazing man.
Holy this is awesome mad respect for this dude
You’re telling me this guy is part bat?
Yep
Move over Ben Affleck, here comes the new and improved echolocating bat boi
B A T M A N
This is THE most powerful video i hve EVER seen...
‘‘Tis guy is amazing
His not totally blind.
He is totally cool.
Damn he is real life superhero
2:30 man looking out into view
Even though he’s blind . But pretty sure he’s standing there with great achievement
I'm so inspired by blind active people they are such a badasses
this is terrifying, *amazing* beautiful... did I mention terrifying?
So happy to see someone other than Daniel Kish for echolocation
You are just *Brilliant* 👍🏻
Thanks for *Inspiring* the world 🙏🏻
Ok, who’s cutting onions around here??! “Wipes Tears”
wow, just wow.
I worked with a guy at a tech company circa 1996 who used echo location and mouth clicking to ride a bike. Actually, he and his twin brother were both blind and had been doing it for years, albeit not mountain biking, which obviously adds an extra level of complexity.
This dude is *Daredevil IRL*
Great Big story is the one of the few companies on TH-cam I support like a real content creator.
Good job guys.
Wow!! This is just absolutely amazing and so inspiring!
I can see clearly and I cant even rollerblade or bike
Glory Sky skate board*
@@ramy131 cant do that either....
takes practice. U will soon.
I wanted to be a MTB rider once but I was afraid but after seeing this vedio it really helped me to regain my confidence. Thx
Totally awesome. You go dude!
Respect🙏
Wow rly awesome
His ability to echolocation is mind blowing... I had seen some people using clicking sounds to navigate the world but not on a mountain bike down hill at that speed. This story makes me think that's possible to create a device that maximise this ability and make it easily accessible to all the population with a similar condition regardless of the is skill level
AT THAT SPEED - What speed?? - they didn't show him tearing up any MTB trail or track. They showed him on an MTB on the road and on what looked like a closed circuit track (likely one he's familiar with and mostly memorized) not going fast at all.
This guy's is my new hero
Very good Brian I am definitely inspired by you
Real life matt murdock
Wow, truly inspirational! I already have enough trouble just biking.
I'm not blind but I've been trying on occasion to "see" if I could do it to by just keeping the lights off around the house. It's pretty hard so I can't imagine having to mountain bike through it alone.
I haven’t watched this video yet but I already know it’s amazing!
Inspiring, encouraging. A big thumps up 👍
simply amazing.
Amazing! Praise God.
This is amazing!!
Salute to this guy 👌 👍 👍 👍 👍
Just...Wow!!!
His story is amazing
real life matt murdock
You got our ✊
Unbelievable!
what an awesome guy
This guys is rad! Love that he teaches it. I’d love to learn it myself while having sight. I’ve done this to a degree my whole life in pitch black places I’m unfamiliar with like a hotel room. Just one or two to hear the walls but obviously nothing to a tiny fraction of this degree. I wonder how much of our ‘sight’ is attributed to unconscious mapping of sound. I do feel like I can’t see as well in a sense with noise canceling headphones on.
I think having normal vision actually makes it harder to learn. It's too easy to cheat! Blind people don't have that option.
WOOW!!! 😱
He is the real daredevil!!
Real world Daredevil
Human Adaptivity is so goddamn great
This guy is legitimately Batman
That's really impressive!
Best?
You mean there are more people like this?
Could this be a possibility of evolution in humans?
Lucifer humans are constantly evolving, its a process not a singular event
Living beings*, not only humans
Not really, I guess think of it as shaking a bottle with water in it to determine how much is inside it but on a larger scale. We've always had the ability but we've always relied on sight
Blind is evolution?
I think its adaptation
Lucifer Not evolution. Adaptation.
Bat man... BATMAN!
Wow,That was super
Finally a good video
Next time maybe you should show more footage of him actually biking.
That’s insane
Daredevil? Is that you?
Amazing
Me (looks easy): Crashes into the wall and hits my toe...
Slip and fall break (ouch) Dame flip flops.
He learned ecolocation
It’s so wild that humans can just learn echolocation
Sight is the reason i live
Xantteboy that’s sad. I guess that’s why God didn’t give you that Challenge
브라이언 당신의 모든 것을 축복하고 응원하겠습니다.감사합니다.
He is shredding my dudes
amazing
I have one question. HOW?!?!
Knock on any surface or shake any bottle in your cabinet. How can you tell if it's full, solid, or empty?
Adrian Spade I get your point but very different
I need to see more footage of this guy on trails. Also, echolocation in humans? Physiology anyone?
So cool
Nobody:
Great Big Story: The Best Blind Mountain Biker
Only shows one clip of mountain biking
Please do Dan Mancina, a blind pro skater on real skateboards
Just wow💚💛❤
Best, Blind and Mountain Biker doesnt go together. yet there he is. A living legend
Why are you purple go back to red
ツGhvstsupply red is the best colour it’s so sexy
I wish I could fuck the colour red
@@edboss36 holy shit dude
@@edboss36 Wait a second
@@edboss36 no problem bro we are an lgbtc community so we support you in your love for colour
Wow!
The sound he makes is the frame rate
The ear is the graphic card
The brain is the mother board
Holy whoa.
Who the hell disliked
Half of the bike riders dont give a damn about road rules anyways, so he will blend right in
Wooo! Damn right brother! No red lights for us!
@@quentin-v9d ahahah that one made me laugh, hard to get mad when you're do damn right
I've read somewhere he's recently got his drivers license and is teaching other people to drive using echo location
I hope that is incorrect. It would be so dangerous! 🙀
We need RED logo.....
Keep it up you are talented soo sad😔
Marko Lazarov I got blind couple years ago. It’s really not that sad. Life is good
Lol hes daredevil
Oh hey there Matt Murdock
* Next Video *
How I learned to drive blind
When bird box is just another day for him
Who else noticed the changed logo?
Imagine being afraid of darkness and lose vision
Nurs Malik happened to me
An interesting experiment would be to have this guy spend a lot of time with dolphins and whales and have him try to communicate with them.
BATMAN!