While the people who claim they’re “looking out for” the handicapped seem perfectly happy consigning them to lives of endless boredom so long as they can trot them out every so often to inspire an auditorium of high schoolers and no one is making any funnies, there are a few truly enlightened souls who realize that what most folks in wheelchairs want to be doing is exactly what they were doing right before ending up in a wheelchair(and which probably led to it) . Adam Fotheringham’s folks are thankfully of the latter type, having allowed their son to wheel himself away from the TV and back to the skatepark where he has turned his handicap into a special ability of near-cyborg proportions.
Reader Comments
September 29th, 2006
8:09 pm
Awesome. Ain’t no more to it.
September 29th, 2006
8:32 pm
inspired and inspirational
September 29th, 2006
9:28 pm
I want to sponser this guy!
September 29th, 2006
11:45 pm
these “people” in wheelchairs are so sad.
September 30th, 2006
1:19 am
That dude’s not from New York.
September 30th, 2006
2:01 am
his name is aaron fotheringham
October 1st, 2006
3:29 am
Holy Shit! Thats some raw talent. Whats next Breakdancing with crutches?
October 1st, 2006
3:41 am
vice magazine sucks
October 1st, 2006
7:09 am
how come every time on your faggot website the shit clicks like every second. fuck you and your website die slow.
October 1st, 2006
11:08 pm
That is awesome, and a real inspiration.
October 2nd, 2006
11:39 am
too good. awesome. next time anyone complains about their shit, you can tell them where to go.
October 3rd, 2006
2:28 am
not bad but at least i can ollie
October 3rd, 2006
6:08 am
Sweet, adverstiy really does breed creativity and fuckin talent!
October 4th, 2006
6:14 pm
Who ever wote this column is a total dipshit. But then again, your whole magazine is put together by a room full.
October 30th, 2006
10:22 pm
i love skater humour,as displayed above.What a wonderful informed view of the world(or:go jack off to Bam Magera).
November 1st, 2007
12:43 pm
First off to those who are sad enough to show the their level of ignorance by bashing the idea of living life… Well let’s just say that God has a special place reserved just for people like you… HELL. And, no I do not need to tell you to go their… Not when you are their now.
For the people who are in tha video… AWESOME to see that you refuse to not live life as best you can.
For the people kind enough to create this page and site…
ROCK ON!
Am not a big blogger type… But life and living it… I AM BIG ABOUT.
And while I may not decide to chairskate… I do plan on living up to my nickname… I had before on a skateboard hit just over 55 miles an hour… Being pulled by nothing but some kites… In 1983. Long before power kites, and kite surfing came along…I was kite tubing on SF Bay… in 1984.
And… Just because of a accident in 1995 at work… And all these years later I now need wheels… I will again… Fly.
And to those who are sad enough to whine about how those who know what life is all about… Like those here and in the video… I feel sorry for you. Really sorry for you. And for your poor moms. to know they raised such trash.
And to those who roll on no matter what… PEACE!
Kite
When life is not fair…
When the odds are against you…
STFU… LIVE LIFE WHILE YOU CAN.