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Mundane chores now have a whole new meaning
It’s Fall. No one expects the guy in the wheelchair to get down and dirty when it comes to raking leaves, or cutting down trees in the forest using a chainsaw (omg). But these two guys show anything is possible. No fear baby! Read this entry
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SCI Superstar: Ashley Lauren Fisher
Restaurateur, philanthropist, English Bulldog lover, ex-model, up-and-coming playwright, these are just a few of the titles used to describe Jersey girl Ashley Lauren Fisher, one of the most dynamic C4-5 quadriplegics you’ll ever meet. What I love about Ashley Lauren is that she isn’t that widely known in the spinal cord injury community, yet she’s one of the most beautiful and hardworking people with a SCI in the country. When she broke her neck diving into a wave at the Jersey Shore at age 23, her whole life changed, and pre-injury she had A LOT going on. Read this entry
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Really, wheelchair ultimate fighting?
Wheelchair ultimate fighting is the next hot sport for wheelers wanting to let off a little steam (and beat the crap out of another person in a wheelchair). Read this entry
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Getting wet…gracefully
4 awesome pool videos for wheelchair-users! The first video shows a super buff 48 yr old C6 quad uses a lap pool (by himself). Video #2 video shows a much more dignified pool lift made just for the Paralympics (so cool!) Video #3 is three sexy quads goofing off in the pool with floaties, and video #4, why no other than Mia of Push Girls. Watch her try swimming for the first time in YEARS. Watch these videos
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Back-to-school fierceness
It’s back to school time, people, and that means wheelchair-users everywhere are rolling into classrooms (and pushing desks out of their way). Oh man, I remember my first day of college orientation as a quad. Talk about the Scariest. Day. Ever. But I soon found out, just like these wise people below, I was freaking out over nothing and realized after a few short months that college was going to be more than ok (and utterly awesome in fact). The first video is of Carrie, a quadriplegic (injured in 2003). She shares what it was like to go back to college at Depaul university. In her video (created by Facingdisability.com),…
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Wheelchair-users on trampolines!
Walking and jumping; two things I thought I’d never do again until a cure came around. Turns out I jumped the gun a early on the jumping part. Wheelchairs and trampolines…never in a million years would I have thought these two worlds would, or could, collide. The first video comes from a really cool paraplegic from California, Andrew Angulo, who makes videos showing how he does nearly everything, and in this 5 minute video showing how he ‘jumps’ on a trampoline will certainly get your brain churning. I never thought a paraplegic could do what he does, and then I saw his trampoline video and was schooled. Read this entry
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SCI Superstar: Aaron Fotheringham
“Just when you thought sitting was safe” is Aaron Fotheringham’s awesome tagline. Touring with the Nitro Circus (an extreme sports tour), speaking and doing demos at events and at school, such is the life of your-not-so-average 20 year old from Las Vegas, the very brave soul behind the world’s first wheelchair back flip. Aaron was born with Spina Bifida, but could never just sit. Wasn’t his thing. After being adopted into a close-knit family as a baby (they adopted 7 kids in total), they’re the reason he’s the extreme adapted athlete he is today. One of his brothers was into skating, and Aaron would always come along and watch… After…
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The ultimate forest riders
How do you like your forest experience? Smooth and easy or rough and dirty? If you use a wheelchair, there are dozens of mobility devices get that get us out in the woods. All it takes is some money (definitely some money) and patience while you wait for your order (it’ll be like Christmas when it arrives!). And don’t think these devices all run on batteries. No siree. If you’re a paraplegic and love doing as much of the work as you can, just wait till you see the MKII, a super fast off-road mountain trike wheelchair A double amputee invented the device in the first video, a modification for…
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Breaking barriers with wheelchair breakdance
Back in the year 2000, all you’d see online about wheelchair dance was wheelchair ballroom dance videos or maybe something on wheelchair ballet, but not anymore. Oh no. Wheelchair dance has come a long way in the last decade, and Auti Angel of Push Girls, one of the best paralyzed hip-hop dancers in the world, has definitely helped make it more popular than ever. So we’ve uncovered a few others. Mobile phone technology is the reason so much more wc-dance info is online, including the dozens of adapted dance videos that are available. I’m always searching for videos that prove you can still be a dancer to be reckoned with…
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Self-defense, wheelchair style
Have you seen the episode of Celebrity Death match with the tough (and heavily tattooed) quad rugby player, Mark Zupan? He pretty much kicked Chris Pontius’ butt, and it was awesome. It’s about time the world saw that wheelchair-users can have mad self defense skills. There are a ton of us out there, and you’ll find us at every level of ability (I still have a ways to go). We can have great upper-body strength, so hey, shouldn’t be all that surprising right? And the following two videos you’re about to see are the BEST of the best when it comes to wheelchair self-defense. This first video comes from the…
