Special Exposure Wednesday

Ronnie's new basketball wheelchair is fast and responsive. Wheelchair basketball is not a calm sport. Those things equal lots of spills - spills which make my heart skip a beat. The coaches tell me to relax, but it's difficult. So, to hopefully make things a little easier for both Ronnie and me, his physical therapist agreed to let him practice righting himself and his chair after a spill. It's something he had mastered in his street chair, but he needed to learn new skills for this very different chair. Here he is...practicing....



And yes, this second picture is oriented correctly. He is practicing falling forward...