Fotheringham flips over wheelchair ‘hard-core sitting’ craze

 

 

LAS VEGAS — It is a place that worships momentum and mocks inertia, craves acceleration and condemns lethargy. All angle and pitch, slope and slant, it is a place of dry pools and concrete runways, of mad ramps and half-pipes.

No one ever told Aaron Fotheringham it was a place he shouldn’t enter, or didn’t belong in. After all, he did the same things — spinning and rising, falling and crashing - every other skateboarder and BMX rider did. 

Aaron Fotheringham had wheels. 

His were just a little different than the others. 

“People call it wheelchair skateboarding,” he says with a shake of the head, “and it’s like, oh man, it’s its own sport. It’s hard-core sitting.”
Posted – February 2008
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Aaron Fotheringham: FIRST backflip in wheelchair!
Aaron Fotheringham: FIRST backflip in wheelchair!