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.
Tag: Disabilities in the media
Meet the bungee wheelchair girl
Christi “Lynx” Rougoor, an extreme sports fanatic & paraplegic from British Columbia, is the woman with the balls to pull off such a stunt. Read this post
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.
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.
2/23/11: Sexy wheelchair dance film to premiere
What some people are calling Dirty Dancing on wheels, Musical Chairs is a romantic comedy set in the world of wheelchair ballroom dancing, directed by Susan Seidelman of Desperately Seeking Susan. Read this blog