BALANCE OF POWER…one leggged golfer
October 22, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
This article is to let you know that no matter the condition you find yourself “NEVER GIVE UP’
Golf can be a cruel game at the best of times – So we at MEBB doff our caps to Manuel De los Santos who. despite having only one leg,consistentyly outperforms his biped opponents.
The 25-year old was a promising baseball player in his native Dominican Republic until a car accident resulted in him losing his left leg below the knee.Aged only 18 at the time,he was undaunted and moved to france with his wife Elena in 2004.It was there that he saw the film “The Legend of Bagger Vance”,in which Matt Damon overcomes adversity through golf,and was “inspired”.He turned his attentions to the game,eventually achieving a handicap of three.
Blind men have played golf before (are you suprised?),and De los Santos is not the first amputee to hit the links,but he is the first to do so at such high level without a prosthetic limb.He travels the course on crutches,but hands them over to a cady for his shots.
” I’m an athlete,” he says.” I walk” — (Real determination)
So what’s the source of this man’s superhuman balance? Physical conditioning,pure and simple.His leg was already strong from his baseball days,and moving on his crutches all day(often with a golf bag) has left him with upper-body strenght far beyond most golfers.As if that wasn’t enough,he does 100 crunches every morning to up his core strenght to levels where his body can take the physical strains he puts it through.
We at MEBB have been motivated by this article and we like to encourage our readers/fans . NEVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF
Source: ShortList Magazine…Pick One ,Read one
