Anthony Ferraro - Blind Skater - USA Skateboarding - Grind for Life Mid-Season Recap

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A Shot In The Dark - Anthony Ferraro
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Despite a lifetime of adversity, a blind high school wrestler attempts to win a New Jersey State Championship before the end of his senior year. Anthony Ferraro has always tried to live a normal life. As he entered junior high, Anthony decided to try his luck at wrestling. After a dismal first season, he begged his father to enroll him in a wrestling club. His father obliged and found a coach willing to teach a blind kid to wrestle. The following year, despite his obvious disadvantage, Anthony went 24-1. Three years later, Anthony has set a number of goals for himself; to become the first three-time District Champ in his school's history, break the school record for most wins, and become the first blind state champion in New Jersey wrestling history. The question is, does he have a shot in the dark?
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▶️Follow along my life - Anthony Ferraro. A Musician, Judoka, Motivational Speaker, Traveler, Adventurer, Son, Brother, Friend, and Fiancé.
▶️Anthony is currently traveling the world in hopes to make it to the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France. Anthony is a Blind Athlete (B1 Classification). Ranked #1 in -73kg category. Representing the United States of America and the Great State of New Jersey!
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The Story Behind “A Shot In the Dark” - Chris Suchorsky - Director / Producer:
In the winter of 2012, I received an email from a former teammate and All-American wrestler, Lou Cerchio. He had come across a sizzle reel about a blind high school wrestler named Anthony Ferraro. Ollie, Anthony’s brother, had posted the sizzle with the hope of finding some help. He was looking to make a film about his little brother, who was a star wrestler, but also happened to be blind. I reached out to Ollie to discuss the project. To my surprise, he was now living in LA working as an editor for Hulu and had essentially abandoned the idea. A few months later, when he returned home to visit family, we met for lunch and discussed the film. Ollie was interested in making a short, but I thought there was potential for a feature film. After meeting with Anthony, we decided we would film him over his senior year of high school and “see what happens”.
A few months later, we were filming. Ollie produced from LA while my crew and I followed Anthony and his team throughout the 2012-2013 season. By the end of the year, the film had hit a standstill. Both Ollie and I were consumer with other projects. I believed there was a story in the can, but knew it was going to be a Herculean task to put a film together.
By 2015, I decided I wanted to finish the film. I had the first 15 minutes edited and had planned to sit down with Ollie to look at what I put together. Sadly, a few days later, Ollie passed away. At his funeral, I told Anthony I would finish the film.
Two years later, we had a rough cut of the film. We launched a Kickstarter campaign with the hope of reaching $40,000. We hit that number in four days and raised over $83,000 by the end of the campaign.
The film premiered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and went on to win eight Best Documentary and Audience Awards over the next year on the festival circuit. We received a number offers for the film including Soul Pancake (Rainn Wilson’s company), Chassy Media (Adam Carolla’s company) and Gravitas Ventures. We opted to release the film independently.
Sincerely,
Chris Suchorsky
Director / Producer

[@suzyq2u998]

Hope you guys get skating in the Paralympics. In the meantime, just being able to compete in these events is so cool. One love!

[@wafflenugget8889]

God this really proves anything is possible this better make it to the Paralympics

[@doogalmctavish]

Keep up the great work Anthony. The world is a better place because of you.

[@CamFloral]

You’re a legend Anthony! Yeweeew One Love!!!!!

[@DarthPooh]

Good for you that’s awesome One love

[@connorsullivan5996]

This is so impressive! I can't even ride one with the ability to see! One love!

[@NoNoDontGo]

Such an inspiration 🤙🏼 One Love!!

[@sidewaysarmy4663]

He’s very motivational man for real

[@beast_e55_amg]

You have an awesome life! Not wasting a moment of it! One love brotha!

[@StLMikie]

Doing big things my boy!

[@k7l3rworkman97]

This is SO AWESOME 💯🙌🏻❤️☮️☺️

[@shaunrankin8984]

You are at amazing human being brother! Godspeed brother!

[@PaintballerHaven]

Yeah man we are all so proud of you!

[@Nobert594]

Hell yeah bro! Good luck getting into the Paralympics!

[@samuelbonaccorso9969]

"Seeing this sport go forward" Epic.

[@racheljones5134]

For somebody who is currently losing my vision you are an inspiration you haven't let your disability stop you if anything you've embraced it I hope I can do that one day.

[@lucidloki2814]

Absolutely amazing I couldn’t even fathom skating like that let alone doing it without being able to see

[@dinvheralgodon225]

I love you bro you keep up the good work one love

[@sleevelessace]

Such a inspiration!!! Your 1000x better then me despite having no sight! Much respect !🤙🏻

[@DanielLeeJones]

That’s absolutely beautiful. Congratulations

[@JustAPairofLegs]

This dude makes me so happy i love his life outlook

[@cru2006]

Lit

[@ReligionsAreAllBad]

One love!

[@peterd2587]

Great job brother

[@skinnybuddha8988]

Bro I love your videos so much, like half of its only about the blindness and the curiosity of not knowing. The other half is because you're literally just such a badass, rad dude I want to party and hangout with.

[@universalcollective427]

One love

[@rayyansarkar198]

I really hope that you get in, you deserve it. One love

[@brendanhamblin-jeddry8138]

No more excuses its back to the park for anyone with the love of skateboarding👌🏻

[@mikescherrer4923]

Dude this is awesome, props!

[@mattie5757]

I love you so much

[@austinsoos440]

Dude you shred so hard, keep pushing.

[@DClean]

LETS GOOOO ❗❗❗

[@brandigenousviii98]

Youre my hero dude

[@brandigenousviii98]

Youve no idea

[@Asfvision]

Thanks for saying that one love

[@yousifkhalid0583]

Nice

[@morganfreeman9191]

damn.

[@kylem8763]

ONE LOVE BABY!!!

[@KillKount187]

That’s sick bro keep it up !!!

[@twisted_alien336]

👍 one love

[@WARFRATify]

You are such a bad ass!

[@mattie5757]

I love you

[@mikeelward6567]

stud

[@mariocoronado7108]

One love Stoner Man

[@andrewblacksz]

☝️❤️

[@ghostsupreme8069]

0:10 Illuminati confirmed

[@Ryanwolson12]

Seeing this sport go forward. LOL ironic. Jk man I couldn't do this shit 😂

[@deniskim6173]

Du bist mein Idol mikujava.Monster immer in meinem herzen, schon, liebe, wahlen, kulturell ❤ Sie sind einesq der besten Konzerte..sh

[@robertodibiaggio1422]

excuse the pun, but i look at Anthony as just a super cool guy living life and doing the things.. his being blind is a non issue to Living and i don't even consider it in just being impressed by his Qualities as a cool Dude and Never letting a so called "disability" matter, cus it dont. 😃😃😃😃

[@mattie5757]

One love

[@Asfvision]

One love