The Sixth Sense of the #TITANDESERT Jon Santacana and Oscar Sáenz, the story of overcoming #EQUIPOCOMPEX

About to enter the desert and with nerves to the surface, the fear of the unknown for Jon Santacana, a Paralympic athlete with a visual acuity of 5%, rather than becoming a barrier will become an authetic motivation to face this new challenge of the TITAN DESERT, an adventure that this time will live through the eyes of a new guide Óscar Sáenz.

 

 

Jon Santacana, skier paralympic and Óscar Sáenz, Brand Solutions at Motorpress Ibérica, will become this tenth edition in the team's perfect "tandem" COMPEX to demonstrate that, physical disabilities far from becoming a social limiter help boost the values ​​and skills of the human being that, together with great mental strength, make any challenge difficult, it becomes a real adventure and an example of personal improvement.

Jon Santacana is one of the great Paralympic figures of the Alpine ski world, his visual deficiency has never stopped him from facing life and everything that has been put before him, because the more difficult challenges motivate him, and the TITAN DESERT is one of them.

Óscar Sáenz will accompany you on this adventure, but not in TAMDEN. Two bikes and the same goal for these two athletes who will want to be united through Oscar's eyes, a vision that he will share with Jon through a bluetooth voice system through which Oscar will give second-by-second directions about the situation and characteristics of the terrain to your partner in order to meet this new challenge together.

Jon is not the first person with visual impairment to participate in the Titan but if it will be the FIRST that it does not do it in tandem, parking punctually the ski to catch the bike and face a challenge that had been in your head for a while and that will become reality in less than 15 days.

"I am a person who has always said that I do not know if I would be able to achieve anything but if I am capable of trying and that is the first step that, together with will and perseverance, lead you to achieve the objectives that you set for yourself"

For his guide, Óscar Sáenz, it is not his first time in the Titan Desert, although it will be the first time he participates as a guide.

"From my past experience in this test, I would highlight the great knowledge I had of myself, that has something that marks you for life. I told myself that if I did it again it would be for a very special reason, and that moment has arrived thanks to Compex and Jon Santacana. "

A new challenge for this marketing and advertising expert, which makes him happy to be able to enjoy Jon's side, helping both of them to finish it, thus achieving that other great sports leap with evident spirit of overcoming, which, according to comments , is worthy of admiration after his days of previous training.

"The training with Jon has been brutal, it is a physical and mental marvel, and has a skill that has left me perplexed. We have coordinated very well and the result has been incredible "

Is intuition the sixth sense of this intrepid sportsman who now faces a challenge as demanding as the TITAN DESERT?

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