Videos
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SCI Superstar: Lyena Strelkoff
If you don't know who this AMAZING lady is, head over to SPINALpedia to learn all about Lyena Strelkoff, an actress, dancer, motivational speaker and new mom from LA.
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Wheelchair kite-flying (plus a crazy wind trick)
Head on over to SPINALpedia for some seriously cool kite-inspired videos today! Watch a young boy with paralysis use an oversized umbrella to pull himself in the wind, a C2 quad fly a kite with his chin, and check out a paraplegic flying a stunt kite (want one!) at 60 mph.
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Green thumbs on wheels
Wheelchair gardening tips from a nursery in Portland, Ore, a serious gardener who lives in the middle of Idaho (and made a sweet low-to-the-ground wooden wheelchair), and my favorite, imbonnie from FL, a C6 quad who has this amaaazing tropical garden (she gives a tour). Check 'em out on SPINALpedia!
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SCI Superstar: Candace Cable
She's a 6 time winner of the Boston Marathon wheelchair division. Check out Candace Cable's videos on how-to cross country ski sitting down on SPINALpedia.
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A little wheelchair TLC goes a long way
Even though your wheelchair isn't a Porche (boo), but you better treat it like it is. Check out these three must-see videos showing how to take care of your wheelchair like a pro on SPINALpedia. How do you clean your wheelchair?
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SCI Superstar: Tomas Young
Tomas Young may be in poor health now, yet he'll always be a SCI Superstar to us at SPINALpedia. Learn about this amazing antiwar activist (paralyzed in Iraq 5 days after arriving; shot by a sniper) who was the star of Phil Donohue's 2008 documentary, Body of War.
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Call me why don’t ya?
Cell phone videos courtesy of SPINALpedia! A sweet hands-free Bluetooth controller for high quads, a C5 quad's thumb trick for dialing her Blackberry, and the coolest video this week, an Iraqi Freedom' vet's pimped out powerchair (replete with a cell phone charger!).
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Crazy never-before-seen wheelchair tricks
There are wheelchair tricks, then their are the wheelchair tricks we dig up at SPINALpedia. Watch the first wheelchair partner stunt team, Wheelchair Partner Stunt, and check put the world's best wheelchair basketball player (Patrick Anderson from Canada) do one of the ballsiest wheelchair tricks ever (by removing a wheel!).
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Slip, sliding (and swimming) independently
Three sweet H20-inspired videos to finish off the week from SPINALpedia! Watch a quad go on an inner-tube waterslide ride at the Atlantis resort in Dubai, a paraplegic give an indoor wakeboarding machine a go, and my favorite - a C6 quad who's figured out how to swim completely independently (and with no floaties!).
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Make it burn (oh yeahhh)
Getting in a solid workout in a wheelchair CAN be done! Check out the new wheelchair treadmill, quad body builder Gene Bergeron's lateral armpulls (and watch him pose at a wheelchair body building competition last year) and see how a Paralympian uses a CrossCore machine in his garage, all on SPINALpedia.