As a legally blind person myself, this guy is an inspiration.Who says the disabled are limited by their own limitations?
The Dallas News reports that to his long list of feats – as a motivational speaker, disc jockey, author, motorcyclist, water skier – Blake Lindsay can add a new one: skydiver.
It's a lot for anyone to accomplish, let alone someone who's blind.
Lindsay, 45, jumped from an airplane 2 ½ miles high Saturday to fulfill a childhood wish and make a point: "I want people – when they face their challenges, their fears – to dive in, because there's victory on the other side," he said.
The Addison resident made his jump at Skydive Dallas in Grayson County with help from the Rotary Club of Dallas.
Lindsay spoke to a group of high school students at a Rotary event a couple of months ago. One girl asked him to name something he hadn't done yet but wanted to.
He spat out the first thing that came to mind: skydiving. Lindsay said he'd wanted to try it since he was 5, when he heard Cessna airplanes buzzing above him and wondered what it would feel like to fall from the sky.
So Rotary leaders decided to make his wish happen. And there he was Saturday, suiting up in a bright blue jumpsuit with orange stripes running down his sides, with bleach-blond hair and bright blue eyes, looking much like a superhero.
He made the jump with an instructor named Ernie Long, who has jumped with quadriplegics and paraplegics but never someone who couldn't see.
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