奇速英语

It’s 2022 now. Daniel Mancina, 35, broke the record for the skateboard(滑板), according to Guinness World Records.

Mancina grew up in Michigan. When he was a young boy, he would snowboard during the winter seasons. One day, he read a magazine and knew that skateboarding could help improve his snowboarding skills. Then he decided to spend more time on the skateboard. At the beginning, he knew nothing about skateboarding and couldn’t play it so well. It wasn’t until he moved to a different neighbourhood during his middle school years and met a group of skaters that Mancina began to truly love skating.

However, at just thirteen years old, doctors told Mancina that he had an eye problem. In just a year and a half, he lost vision in his left eye. Mancina stopped skateboarding. A few years later, he picked up the board again and filmed a video of himself skateboarding with the help of a cane(手杖). The video was shared by the Tony Hawk Foundation, now known as The Skatepark Project. It made Mancina decide to return to the sport although he is now completely blind.

“Being a blind skater, I have to take my time to feel obstacles(障碍物) and have a good understanding of them before I start skating,” said Mancina. “I rely on my white cane the most. I use it to know my environment and to find obstacles while skating.”

Daniel Mancina hopes to perform at the Paralympics in 2028. His future plans include breaking his own record and building a skate park. Once it’s built, he will introduce blind kids to the world of skating.