During a fire evacuation drill, this is what a Human Resources Manager did ...in an office building I was in meeting.
He was just 6 ft. ahead of us while the rest of us piled down 4 flights of stairs.
The guy is a a parapelgic (paralyzed from waist down) and was in a light althletic light wheelchair. He went backwards, down all flights.Impressive upper body strength and agility.
I asked him directly how he did it...and he did confirm: Lots of practice.
By the way, he was not overweight. About in his 30's.
Just incredible!!I'm not sure if some people who saw this, understood truly what it really means to have that type of upper body strength when wheelchair-bound.
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10-28-2011, 06:26 AM #1
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Backwards in wheelchair: down the stairs
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10-28-2011, 08:45 AM #2
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Its amazing isn't it? I saw a guy do that at a train station. Niftily wheel himself backwards onto a step on the escalator and hang on with both hands. I've just finished a course in adapted physical education and sports for children with special needs. We had to watch these clips of the Paralympics and some other sports. One of the wheelchair sports our prof showed us was Murderball, which is pretty much, rugby on wheels. The guys who played the game totally blew all our minds away. And the Boccia athletes in the Paralympics had some really deadly accurate shots. Its just...amazing.
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10-28-2011, 09:30 AM #3
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Shootingstar, you should tell him to make a YouTube video. It could be both inspiring and practically useful to other folks in wheelchairs. Plus, it would just look cool.
I suppose if I were in that situation, I'd want to know I could get out of a burning building's top floors.2001 Cannondale R500 <3
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10-28-2011, 09:43 AM #4
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the movie, Murderball, is amazing and very inspirational.
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10-28-2011, 01:15 PM #5
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There's a very quick moment in Murderball when they show one of the guys doing this very thing, riding down an escalator in an airport when he is traveling alone. They mention elsewhere in the movie that he has more upper body strength and function than his teammates due to the nature of his injury, and that's why he plays his particular position on the team.
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10-28-2011, 02:45 PM #6
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this picture has been making the rounds -
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