{"id":3854,"date":"2022-10-13T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2022-10-13T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:33:49","slug":"landis-sims-has-no-hands-or-feet-but-can-hit-a-curveball-his-journey-is-now-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2022\/10\/13\/landis-sims-has-no-hands-or-feet-but-can-hit-a-curveball-his-journey-is-now-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Landis Sims has no hands or feet but can hit a curveball. His journey is now a movie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Eric Cochran was looking for an inspirational story eight years ago when he visited a softball team camp for limb-deficient kids in Mission Viejo, Calif., put on by the\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woundedwarriorproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\">Wounded Warrior Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cochran, a veteran cinematographer, planted himself in the bleachers. He was there for all of about 90 seconds when he fixed his eyes on an 8-year-old who was working with Matias Ferreira, a former Marine who lost both legs below his knees while serving in Afghanistan in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cPicture this little, kind of roly poly kid on prosthetic legs and he\u2019s got the bat tucked against his body,\u201d Cochran said. \u201cAnd he\u2019s just rifling shot after shot and talking smack. I\u2019m like, \u2018Who the hell is this kid?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cochran sat and observed Landis Sims for a day, then worked up the courage to ask his mother, Amanda Sims, to talk to him the following day. Cochran was wearing a Boston Red Sox cap. Landis, a New York Yankees fan, immediately let him have it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cHe started giving me crap,\u201d Cochran said. \u201cThat\u2019s just kind of how the relationship started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cochran pitched the idea to Amanda of visiting the Sims family at their home in Elizabeth, a rural community near the Ohio River in Harrison County in southern Indiana. \u201cI had no idea the journey it would turn into,\u201d Cochran said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The result, after eight years, is the inspiring true story of\u00a0Landis Sims, now 16 years old. The 95-minute documentary \u2014 \u201c<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/landismovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\">Landis: Just Watch Me<\/a>\u201d \u2014 chronicles Sims, who was born without hands and feet, as he overcomes obstacles on his journey as he strives to make his high school baseball team at South Central High School.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2022\/07\/11\/indiana-teen-amputee-documentary-movie-landis-just-watch-me\/7788252001\/\">Continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Cochran was looking for an inspirational story eight years ago when he visited a softball team camp for limb-deficient kids in Mission Viejo, Calif., put on by the\u00a0Wounded Warrior Project. Cochran, a veteran cinematographer, planted himself in the bleachers. He was there for all of about 90 seconds when he fixed his eyes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}