OC: On December 9th, 2011, champion rock-climber Lai Chi-wai suffered a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the waste down. On the same day, five years later, he climbed Hong Kong’s iconic Lion Rock once again, this time in a wheelchair.
33-year-old Lai Chi-wai is a four-time winner of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships, but on a faithful day, five years ago, his promising athletic career seemed to be over, following a devastating motorcycle accident. “When I woke up, I was already in the hospital and had been operated on. The staff told me … I was paralyzed from the waist down and would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life,” the young rock climber recalls.
For his family and friends, the tragic outcome of the accident meant that he could no longer do the one thing that truly gave him a feeling of fulfillment – climbing heights. But despite losing the use of his legs, Lai Chi-wai wasn’t ready to give up on his passion. After recovering from the accident, he took up wheelchair boxing, a relatively new sport that he claims improves mental focus and physical fitness of paraplegics and increases their confidence, but he also continued to train with his old mountain climber friends. read more
I had trouble getting out of bed this morning.
Wheel chair boxing? Had to see how that looked and it’s actually pretty brutal. No bobbing and weaving, it’s just chair to chair throwing punches.
This dude sure gets my props.
I know this is off-topic, but has anyone gone to the Google website today? The current rather large Google “doodle” is devoted to celebrating the birthday of some South African anti-apartheid black activist named Stephen Biko, who died in police custody in 1977.
The 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, you may remember, got a tiny little footnote on the bottom of their main page, down below the search bar (no doodle).
Cork soakers.
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Inspires Wounded Vets too.
https://www.uso.org/
Volunteer.