Videos
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Wheelchair travel tips you can’t won’t find anywhere else
When I flew in a plane the first time as a wheelchair-user 5 years after my accident, I was so nervous. I didn’t want it to be a hassle, or rather “be” the hassle. I was hoping and praying it’d be quick and seamless. It’s really too bad this video wasn’t available, showing how a wheelchair-user boards a plane (no you don’t stay in your chair. FAA regulations), when I was freaking in my early days. Had I seen this video, it would’ve calmed almost all of my nerves for sure. And this video is loaded with wheelchair travel secret after another wheelchair travel secret; shared by seasoned traveler himself, Mark Schmidt, paraplegic…
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So excited – Push Girls sneak peak
The Sundance Channel aired a 12 minute sneak peak of the Push Girls last night, and holy crap you guys, it looks better than I had hoped. It’s not cheesy, it doesn’t have that “whoa feel sad for these girls” type of feel. No, the show has hit the nail on the head. I officially love the Sundance Channel for making this show. There I said it. Hitting on guys when you’re out at the club, real life with your man in bed (“Yes I can have sex. Lots and lots of sex”) to being obsessed with wearing high heels even if you can’t walk, seeing all of this glossified on the…
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Aussie wheelchair tennis players explain the game
I’ve been blogging for SPINALpedia.com, a very cool video site that contains thousands of spinal cord injury-related videos, for a couple of months now. What I love about this site (other than it wass founded by my friend Josh Basile, a really smart C4-5 quad from Maryland who’s studying to be a lawyer) is that the videos are categorized by movement – full hand movement, partial hand movement, no hand movement, and for all the other body parts too, making it easy to find a video that would actually work for you without wasting too much time (gotta love that). My latest post for SPINALpedia.com highlights some of my favorite sports…
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Burn those calories: Insane wheelchair pull-up
A crazy wheelchair pull-up and the easiest at-home workout for quads. Check out these awesome videos
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Podcast #84 – Joe Stone and reclaiming the mountain
In episode #84 of No Free Rides, Tiffiny interviews Joe Stone, a C7 quad injured while speed flying in Montana (where you parachute down a mountain on foot). Tiffiny and Joe discuss the importance of staying true to your passions despite a life-changing injury, as well as his documentary, Wings to Wheels.
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3/3/12: Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta features wheelchair bride
Last night, the Southern version of the hot wedding dress reality show, Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta, featured a bride in a wheelchair – a woman who was shot by a stray bullet only five months before.
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Miss Colours Hungary crowned
“The most beautiful woman in a wheelchair” in Hungary was crowned over the weekend at the first Miss Colours Hungary wheelchair beauty pageant, which I assume from the name (and the main image on their site) is sponsored by Colours Wheelchairs.
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2/27/12: Learn Something New: Pushing your butt through the grass (and sand) alive
It’s a scary jungle out there when you can’t walk. WildKat TV’s “how-to” terrain wheelchair videos are just the thing for freshies with no clue. Watch here
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2/21/12: Amazing quad pony tail technique
Every girl wants the freedom of throwing up her hair. Elizabeth Kolbe, 25, a C6-7 quad with paralyzed hands, figured out a way to put her hair up after working on a technique for 2 years. Watch!
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2/15/12: Making Things Easy Again: Quad with badass knife (and skills)
You gotta check out this video of Chris Colwell, a C5-6 quadriplegic who recently moved to Dubai, who has the best knife skills I’ve ever seen a quad possess.
