Aaron Fotheringham (born 1991) from Las Vegas, Nevada is a wheelchair athlete, or ‘wheelchair skateboarder’ who performs tricks adapted from skateboarding and BMX.
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I understand and respect Aaron’s decision to do acrobatics in a chair much better after having climbed White Mountain with 4WheelBob this past summer. His was the first ascent of California’s 3rd highest mountain in a wheelchair.
Still, I don’t want Aaron or other athletes getting hurt.
They must get proper coaching and training facilities. Though the video does not show it, Aaron learned the somersault in the foam pit at Woodward West camp.
What about that Backflip at Woodward?
“The entire week was awesome. The best week of my life!
Aaron calls this ‘hardcore sitting’. He is famed for being the first person to successfully perform a back flip in a wheelchair at the age of 14. He performs other tricks in his wheelchair including a 180 degree ‘aerial’. He plans to fuse the back flip with the 180 aerial into what is known as a ‘flair’.
Aaron has Spina Bifida; he has had a wheelchair since the age of three and although he used crutches early on, he has been in a wheelchair fulltime since the age of eight. He would watch his brother riding his BMX at the skate park and one day his brother told him that he should try riding his chair in the park. Aaron later noted that “I did, and I was hooked”.
Aaron got a new wheelchair, a Colours In Motion’s Boing!” which was both lightweight and featured four wheel suspension. This enabled him to perform the same sorts of tricks that skateboarders and BMXers can do as the suspension cushioned his landings. …
(via THE GOAT)
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