Videos
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The Ever-So Important Wheelchair Bag
What kind of bag do you use on your wheelchair?! Check out a DIY project for making your own wheelchair backpack, as well as a new backpack "lifter" that brings your bag from behind you onto your lap and a paraplegic who uses a North Face fanny pack as his wheelchair bag.
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SCI Superstar: David Constantine
Co-founder of Motivation International, a charity based in the UK that donates 13,000 low-cost wheelchairs each year to people with disabilities in developing countries, learn all about David Constantine on SPINALpedia. He may have been paralyzed since 1982, that hasn't stopped him from helping thousands of others who are also paralyzed, but aren't as lucky as him to be living in a disability-friendly country.
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Wheelchair Drifting – Turning Lemons Into Awesomeness
Wheelchair drifting on steroids. Love this! Check out three videos from SPINALpedia showing how to drift on four-wheels better even than Vin Diesel, and on three very different surfaces no less - ice, blacktop and tile. Do you drift?
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SCI Superstar: Kristin Duquette
A fierce new human rights grad diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy FSHD when she was just 9 years old, learn all about the awesome story of American Paralympic Swimmer Kristin Duquette on SPINALpedia, who at only 22 years has done some amazing stuff, from interviewing Kofi Annan in South Africa to founding A Day in a Wheelchair and becoming a resident blogger for The Huffington Post.
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Bring On the Sassy Wheelchair Ladies
Watch Brianna Scalesse, 19 and a T12 paraplegic, show off an amazing "wheelchair twerk," check out the hilarious Step Woodward's video on terrible pick-up lines men tell women in chairs and watch high school cutie Maria Monterrosa's light saber video where she goes over the best perks of being a wheelchair-user.
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SCI Superstar: Bob Coomber
One of the toughest wheelchair hikers on the planet, the incredibly tough Bob Fourwheelbob Coomber has hiked all 66 state parks in California and gives guided tours on the best flat trails out in Cali. He's also the first wheeler to climb White Mountain, the 3rd tallest peak in CA. Check him out on SPINALpedia!
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Wheelchair Curling: Inexpensive Universal Fun
One of the cheapest Paralympic sports you can pursue (you can even use your regular everyday chair when you play), here are three videos from SPINALpedia profiling the sloth-esque sport that's all about precision - wheelchair curling.
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SCI Superstar: Shannon Chisholm
A bodybuilder long before she was paralyzed (Shannon was hit by a car from behind while on her bicycle in 2011), check out the crazy awesome story of the fierce Shannon Chisholm, a T11 para wheelchair bodybuilder who's become the boss of the wc-bodybuilding scene, female class, on SPINALpedia!
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SCI Superstar: Anthony Netto
Ambassador of adapted golf, South African Anthony Netto is a former pro-golfer who was paralyzed when was hit by a drunk driver in '94. Since his injury, he's invented a standup wheelchair to play golf again, the Paragolfer, and he brings it around the US for the Wounded Warriors Foundation, showing vets they can indeed golf again.
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Turning Your Wheels Into a Paintbrush
Have you painted a masterpiece with your wheels yet? What are you waiting for?! Check out three videos of amazing artists on wheels from SPINALpedia, including Tommy Hollenstein, who's sold his work to Ringo Starr and Joaquin Phoenix.