Wheelchair Longboarding - ideaAfter a couple of days of finding out how to ride my Wheelchair on a
Skateboard I got the chance to film it with friends and make
my very
first movie.
Years ago I had an accident when snowboarding. Since then my legs have
been paralysed. I used to ride skateboarding before, but not untill
recently I thought
“Wait a minute, longboards are broader than a
wheelchair”
and got metal rails epoxy and put it on a lowrider
longboard (like the evo from landyachtz but from early skateboards
australia).
A walking friend of mine learned doing a wheely with a wheelchair within
minutes and could do wheelchair longboarding right away.
The hardest
thing in the beginning is probably getting on the board which is like
riding up a curb. The real challenge is getting of the board without
falling. The faster you go, the harder the “landing”. But if one does
the sport at 3 to 10 Km/h it is pretty laid back, just like crusing with
your bicycle.
So far It is not an extrem sport like WCMX (Wheelchair Trick Skating)
but people can make it an extreme sport by going faster. But that´s not
my interest.
In Spring 2014 (Hamburg, Germany) I want to
! Get
Wheelchairs riders on Longboards ! and show wheeling people how easy and
fun it is to ride a Skateboard.
Now it´s winter but next spring I want
to get a Wheelchair to crash with an push the sport a little bit
further. And I thought of Wheelchair Skateboarding How-to-ride courses,
self made boards,
more documentary-like videos for next year!
Antonio Hömpler