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Podcast 97: Neil Picone – wheelchair bodybuilder
Neil Picone, an IFBB Pro wheelchair bodybuilder from New Jersey is on the show (paralyzed 6 years ago in a motorbike crash), and boy is he awesome. With an upper body that's better than most guys and a sweetheart to boot, this new bodybuilder has an amazing story.
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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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SCI Superstar: Nick Scott
Meet wheelchair bodybuilder Nick "The Beast" Scott. See his amazing before and after photos (he once topped 300lbs) and watch him wheelchair ballroom dance with his partner, the gorgeous Aubree Marchionne.
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Wheelie Favorite Things – April 2013
Here's the April installment of my Wheelie Favorite Things column at Push Living, including the world's only wheelchair accessible limo, the MVS (made from two MV-1 vehicles from VPG).
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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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Podcast 96: Annette Hormozian
In podcast 96, Tiffiny is joined by Annette Hormozian, a wheelchair ballroom dancer from California who's been dancing her entire life, both before and post injury (she was injured 24 years ago when the car she was riding in went off a cliff). Annette grew up belly dancing and doing traditional Syrian dance, but transitioned to ballroom dance a couple years ago.