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Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham – Wheelchair Action Sports

DPX Tech — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:24:50 +0000

Unit, one of the world’s fastest growing action sports brands, has just released a six-minute mini-documentary on one of their star athletes, Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham.

Wheelz, 19, has obtained a cult following globally for his antics with the Nitro Circus Live Tour after successfully landing 40ft Backflips, Double Backflips and Front-flips in the past six months… in a wheelchair.

The Las Vegas teenager is one of the most inspirational athletes in the entire action-sports industry; he hasn’t let spina bifida dictate his lot in life and has taken his custom-built wheelchair to places they’ve never been before, including skateparks, BMX parks and of course, the Giganta-Ramp.

Unit sat down with Wheelz during a recent trip to the USA and found out what makes the laid-back, humble teenager tick. Visit www.youtube.com/unitridersaus to check it out.

Following on from the successful Nitro Circus Live New Zealand Tour Wheelz is back in Vegas and preparing for the Nitro Circus Australian Regional Tour, which kicks off on March 9 at Albury’s Lavington Sports Ground.

Courtesy: Unit Clothing www.unitriders.com

Producer: Allan Hardy

Music: ‘Hello World’ by Amely www.myspace.com/amely

Episode 1 – Power Wheelchair Comparison

DPX Tech — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:38:04 +0000

Gold Pictures and The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation are proud to announce the premiere of The Power Wheelchair Comparison Web Series. This in-depth comparison video web series takes a detailed look at 8 of the top power wheelchairs on the market today. The chairs featured in this comparison were required to have the ability to tilt, elevate and recline. In the video you will see real wheelchair users try out Permobil’s C300 & C350, 21st Century Scientific’s Bounder Plus, Pride’s Quantum 6000z, OttoBock’s B-600, Innovation in Motion’s X5-Frontier, Sun Medical’s Quickie S-636, and Invacare’s TDX-SR! More videos will continue to roll out in the following weeks with exclusive looks at each of these amazing chairs. This web series promises to be the most current, informative and entertaining wheelchair comparison available today! Be sure to tune and keep coming back for more episodes. A PDF comparison chart will be made available for your download when the series concludes.

Frequent Flyer Fotheringham

DPX Tech — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:42:58 +0000

AARONFOTHERINGHAM.COM

New video! some recent WCMX clips i thought id throw together.
( im better at flips then editing, so deal.)

Songs, Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molley
Bro Hymn – Pennywise
For whom the bell tolls – Metallica

If youre a supporter, thanks! if not, you still gave me a view so fall in a hole….hahaha!

Thanks to all my sponsors XFUSION, Unit, Schwalbe, Froglegs, Spinergy

Hope you dig it!

UW Whitewater Wheelchair Athletics Promotional Video

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:42:41 +0000

A promotional video for the Wheelchair Athletics program of UW-Whitewater. It highlights the Warhawk Men’s Wheelchair Basketball team, the Intramural Basketball program, and the new Women’s Wheelchair basketball team.
This was a project for the Corporate Video Production class (video for an on-campus client). It was created by Michele Hull and myself (the two of us are “Group 7 Productions”) with voice-overs by Lane Kimble. The entire soundtrack and almost all of the video was taken by ourselves (some footage supplied by UWW TV Sports). Edited in Final Cut. Music created in Soundtrack Pro.

Wheelchair Backflip

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:25:21 +0000

Aaron Fotheringham attempts to set an official Guinness World Record for wheelchair backflips.

Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham: Australian Tour Update

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:24:26 +0000

While in Australia for the Nitro Circus live tour, Wheelz dropped into Unit HQ to catch up with the crew.

We pulled him aside to get the latest update on his time in Australia, and what it is like to tour with the world’s most popular action sports crew.

Nitro Circus – Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham – Worlds First – Wheelchair – Frontflip -

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:22:53 +0000

Australian Capital City tour coming 2012:

May 11th – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
May 18th – Acer Arena, Sydney
May 25th – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
June 1st – Adelaide Entertainment Centre
June 9th – Burswood Dome, Perth

US & European tours coming late 2012/early 2013.

Head to nitrocircuslive.com for more details.

-Exclusive Nitro Circus Live World Record Video-

America’s Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham became the first person ever to successfully land a frontflip in a wheelchair off the Nitro Giganta Ramp, during the sold out New Zealand Nitro Tour with Travis Pastrana and all the Nitro gang in attendance.
Tickets now on sale for the Australian Regional Tour

www.nitrocircuslive.com

Filmed and Edited by

James Harkness Smith, Donny Anderson and Jade Gale

Aaron Fotherinham Wheelchair Double Backflip Nitro Circus Sydney

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:21:38 +0000

Aaron Fotherinham with a double backflip off the megaramp @ nitro circus sydney 2010. This is a must see show!

World’s First Double Backflip on a Wheelchair

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:21 +0000

Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham landed the world’s first double backflip on a wheelchair on August 26, 2010.

Filmed: Dave Metty
Brandon Schmidt
Edited: Joshua Zucker

Music (in order):
Broken Social Scene – “Major Label Debut (Fast)”
Elvis Perkins – “Shampoo”
aaronfotheringham.com

campwoodward.com

Wheelchair back flip

DPX Tech — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:15:29 +0000

A kid from Vegas doing a back flip i a wheelchair while at Woodward West in CA. Maybe the 1st in history!