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Juan standing on a pavement in France with water in the Background

Media Collection

Videos by or featuring Juan Ruiz

BBC Television Series Super Human Challenge – including Navigating through an obstacle room, walking around the Santa Monica Pier in California and Mountain biking. All done blind of course!
Pick yourself up and try again – Carrying a roof cover on top of a roof. Now imagine doing this blind!
Bike Ride Vienna to Tulln – Blind Biker Juan Ruiz – First long distance bike ride was a success! I used a shortend zip tie to create a sound source on a bike that was riding in front of me.
Sensory Tactile Wall – This sensory wall is a great example of how one can help blind or visually impaired children to use the sense of touch and/or residual vision.

Guiness World Record – The fastest time to slalom through 10 obstacles randomly placed on a 20 m (66 ft) course without using the sense of sight is 25.43 sec and was achieved by blind from birth Juan Ruiz (Mexico) using echolocation on the set of ‘Guinness World Records – Rekorlar Dunyasi’, in Istanbul, Turkey, on 23 July 2013. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-10-obstacle-slalom-on-bicycle-blindfolded

My Contribution to the White Cane Awareness Day 2020
“El hormiguero 3.0” Appearing on Spanish television Antena 3
Mit den Ohren sehen! – Talk by Juan Ruiz @ Biotopia Naturkundemuseum Bayern, Germany. October 2022
Sehen mit der “Klik-Sonar-Methode” – the Austrian Government funded a program in Tyrolia to teach Clicksonar aka Echolocation to Blind People.
This is how little blind Maks does his training – A piece with the German television Bayrischer Rundfunk BR24 about a blind student of Juan Ruiz by the name of Maks

Links to Videos in Spanish:
http://video.worldaccessfortheblind.org/Mexico.html
http://video.worldaccessfortheblind.org/don_francisco.html

Link to a Video from Japanese Television, 2009:
http://video.worldaccessfortheblind.org/japanese.html

Media Articles on Juan Ruiz and Clicksonar

Nice article about Clicksonar from the School of the Blind in Zollikofen, Switzerland https://www.blindenschule.ch/klicksonar/

“Anderes Sehen” organisation from Berlin, Germany about Juan Ruiz
https://www.anderes-sehen.de/akustische-orientierung-mobilitat/unser-trainer-juan-ruiz/

Austrian association of the Blind “Blindenverband” about Juan Ruiz https://www.blindenverband-wnb.at/blog/juan-ruiz-ein-aussergewoehnliches-leben/

the Good Tribe and Visioneers Austria debunking myths about blind people, 2019.
https://www.thegoodtribe.com/blog-austria/2019/10/10-mythen-blindheit-und-ihr-ende

Swiss magazine Tactuel about Juan Ruiz and Clicksonar, 2020.
https://www.tactuel.ch/juan-ruiz-sieht-mit-den-ohren/

German Newspaper FAZ about Juan Ruiz and his trainings, 2016.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/klicksonar-technik-soll-blinden-helfen-14503787.html

Austrian Newspaper Kurier about Juan Ruiz and Clicksonar, 2015.
https://kurier.at/lifestyle/faszinierende-faehigkeit-wir-sehen-mit-unseren-ohren/164.197.935

German Newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung about Juan and Echolocation
https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/die-loesung-fuer-alles/daniel-kish-juan-ruiz-klicksonar-echoortung-echowahrnehmung-anderes-sehen-steffen-zimmermann-87045

Berlin’s School for the Blind Zeuneschule about the visit of and trainings with Juan Ruiz, 2021.
https://www.zeune-schule.de/fledermaus-alarm-in-der-zeune-schule/

German catholic Pressrelease by katholische Sonntagszeitung about Juan Ruiz and the Clicksonar Technique, 2019.
https://www.katholische-sonntagszeitung.de/Im-Blickpunkt/Mit-Klicklauten-durch-die-Welt-Sonntag-02.-Juni-2019-09-10-00?k=__Behinderung__Deutschland__Inklusion

Little Love can see by sound, nation Media \ Lifestyle
By JOY WANJA MURAYA – May 19, 2012
https://nation.africa/Features/lifestyle/Little+Love+can+see++by+sound+/1214-1409244-l3gup/index.html

Flash Sonar (Clicksonar) technique in Chile that provides autonomy to people with visual disabilities – Social Ministry of Chile. November 16, 2012
https://www.senadis.gob.cl/sala_prensa/d/noticias/2665/ministro-lavin-y-directora-nacional-del-senadis-asisten-a-demostracion-de-innovadora-tecnica-flash-sonar

Article by Telemundo52, a US Tv Outlet in Spanish Language. August 9, 2014
https://www.telemundo52.com/videos/virtudes-de-un-ciego-vidente-series-especiales-telemundo-juan-ruiz/1965677/

Article by la montagne in France about Juan Ruiz and Clicksonar. June 2023.
https://www.lamontagne.fr/clermont-ferrand-63000/actualites/juan-ruiz-seul-instructeur-non-voyant-en-locomotion-a-presente-la-technique-de-l-echolocalisation-a-clermont-ferrand_14325254/