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Speedblog Part III
星期三, 四月 16th, 2014Speedpost part III
星期二, 四月 1st, 2014对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Speedpost part II
星期五, 三月 21st, 2014对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Sport News VII
星期四, 九月 26th, 2013对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Pontoon Bridge over the Mainriver
星期二, 九月 10th, 2013对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Stochastic-Resonance-Therapy
星期五, 九月 6th, 2013Since one year, I am going to the Frankfurt University twice a week, and I don’t mean the University medical center this time, which you may think in my age…
It’s quite impressive when I announce sitting in my wheelchair that I don’t have time because I have to go the sports university 
… no, I am not training explicitly for the next Paralympics…
I am there in a project group for
Stochastic Resonance Therapy (STR-Therapy)
This therapy, co-developed by the institute of sports sciences in Frankfurt/Main, transmits low-frequency (6-12 Hz), randomized vibrations by two plates independent of each other. *
The effect is quite complex.
In simple words, the feet are fixed onto 2 aluminium plates, or as pedestrian you stand on the plates.
These plates move/rattle heavily and simulate walking to the body. The nerves are stimulated and suppose walking to the brain.
The success especially for people with walking disabilities is remarkable.
More information on Stochastic Resonance Therapy and experience reports and equipment (in German): click here and click here.
Except for the STR equipment there is normal workout equipment as well. A sports therapist is always available for us.
The training with other handicapped people is fun, and of course there is an intense exchange of experiences.
I wouldn’t have thought that I ever would visit a gym voluntarily. There are still places available in the project.
In the video you can see Jens Maspfuhl, reigning 6-times German champion in Wheelchair Golf. He is chairman of the private incorporated society “German accident and disaster relief”
DUK-Deutsche Unfall und Katastrophenhilfe e.V.
This society is sponsor of the project and is funding it by donations and sustaining memberships.
The society also supports successfully a vocational school for disabled people of the “Father Ray Foundation” in Thailand, many of them wheelchair users.
Because of the flooding the price for rice has increased dramatically, and therefore the Foundation needs support to feed more than 800 people per day.
Additionally, the fundless highly quadriplegic young Thai woman Nuch is supported.
There are still some donation receipts and sustaining memberships left. Donate quickly before everything is gone… 
Every donation is well received in the projects, I am sustaining member myself and have donated several times!!!
Somewhere I can be seen with Jens on one of the cross-fading pictures on the DUK homepage, 16 pictures after the German minister of finance Schäuble
* Source C.Ebert
For questions as usual: rollinator@eigude.de
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Sport News VI, Chair Skating
星期二, 六月 18th, 2013I am asked frequently how it is to be “bonded” to the wheelchair…???
Usually I look down at me, smile and say, I don’t see any bonds.
The other day I was with my wheeler mate David in the new skate park next to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt when we heard that question again.
We were both grinning because just in this moment he really “bonded“ himself to his wheelchair to turn a round…
Frankfurt East meets Frankfurt West
David “Dat Lebbe” Lebuser,
the future German ChairSkating legend
For all who missed the report “To the limit in a chair ” on German television
Here the direct link to the media library.
He is one of the pioneers in our country who are shredding with their chair through the half pipe and do some tricks in the skater park.
When he rolls to the edge of the halfpipe he has enough space most of the times because the skaters and bikers stand still and watch extremely interested if the guy with the chair really wants to get down there.
“ChairSkating”
is already popular in the USA for some time, and even kids have fun with it.
Just have a look into Youtube under WCMX, there are a lot of cool videos.
Some weeks ago, the German Wheelchair Sport Association has organized a workshop for “Chairskating” with young people and of course David.
You should be quite fit to try out this sport.
When you pursue this sport reasonably with appropriate protection equipment and special wheelchair, the risk for injuries is manageable.
A hand cycle is fairly inappropriate for the half pipe
I have decided to engage in the future instead of Chair skating into Extreme Wheelchair Origami.
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Sport News V, Wheelchairgolf
星期日, 六月 9th, 2013Trial lesson in Tenerife
I had already reported a year ago about an electric wheelchair with which you can play golf, (see older blogpost).
In Tenerife, you can rent such a golf wheelchair in the Hotel Mar y Sol in Los Cristianos, and also play a round with a coach on the golf course.
As I once played field hockey in my previous live and I would have liked to hit a ball again, my curiosity was even bigger.
This year I even had the possibility to meet the challenge of playing golf with my friend Christian Nachtwey, a former European champion and team captain of the German National Team in wheelchair golf.
Christian is not only an excellent golf player but also has a company which produces these golf wheelchairs. www.powerbasetec.de
In my former life I have driven many fork lifts, lifting platforms and similar vehicles with joystick, but such a delicate steering mechanism as it is in the golf wheelchair was new to me. Just driving around is really fun!
However, I was still in doubt how I should hold the golf club with my limited finger function and then even be able to hit the ball.
You have to take such “trifles” as a game, up to now we usually could think of a solution.
You are buckled up with knees and chest, similar to my Standing chair at home, and then you rise to the sky.
I have to admit, we were “just” on the Driving Range.
After we fixed the golf club with velcro straps and duct tape to my hand, the test series “Play Golf 1.0″ instead of “Drive Golf 12.1 years” could begin.
To my surprise you hardly need power, so that the ball even moves with me.
It seems to me that you can learn to play golf quicker as a “wheeler” than as a “footer” because you don’t twist the upper body during the shot due to the belts.
It is a lot of fun, I can recommend it to everybody to give it a try.
Wheelchair golf is also possible on Mallorca, this is there offered by “FUNDACIÓN HANDISPORT Mallorca”.
With them I was already sailing last year. It was a perfect day then, (see older blogpost).
A roll of duct tape is necessary per hole…
After I unpacked my “secret weapon”, the golf-ball from Eintracht Frankfurt which I brought along, Christian virtually didn’t have a chance any more
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Addendum Simply Great Part VI
星期二, 六月 4th, 2013对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Simply Great Part VI
星期六, 五月 25th, 2013Addendum Worth Reading Crazy Flash XVIII
星期六, 一月 12th, 2013对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
Night of the Proms 2012
星期日, 十二月 23rd, 2012Yesterday I had again a great evening in the time-honoured concert hall “Festhalle” in Frankfurt (year of construction 1907) at the
Night of the Proms 2012
This time except traditionally with John Miles, the concert orchestra Il Novecentro” and others, as Special Guests
Anastacia,
Mick Hucknall (Simply Red)
also the “Echo” winners 2012 (German music award), Jupiter Jones.
After the concert at the wheelchair exit he was suddenly standing next to me,
Nicolas Müller, the singer of Jupiter Jones!!!
If you press the remote control of the park heating from your car in the concert hall during the encore you will always have a warm car afterwards. This is easily 100 meter linear distance.
Such an old sandstone building is really good, but not very useful in continuous rain like yesterday either.
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks IXL
星期四, 十一月 15th, 2012Addendum Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XLVIII
星期四, 十一月 8th, 2012The wheelchair Segway is not only available from
Gennymobility
Also the German company
www.mobilitycube.de
is constructing one of those models. I think they are affordable, but apart from that I could not report more than what you can see on the website.
A wheeler mate has found out some things, I consider his investigations most interesting. However I can’t guarantee for the correctness of the information.
I will call him Informant Segway:
The scooter by Genny shown in the film clip costs laid-back 15950 Euro (net). I have got this information from the Italian headquarter.
A possible alternative is the MobilityCube reconstruction kit based on a Segway. Costs 3.800,00 €!
The customer either brings his own Segway, or we provide a Segway.
The aquisition of a Segway costs new 7.900,00 € and used from Segway 6.600,00 €.
We arrange the individual approval of the technical control association for costs of 385,00 €. Illumination according to road traffic regulations 50,00 €.
Optionally the customers can exchange the original tyres with tyres of the company Axperts. http://www.axperts.de
Usually an extra charge of ca. 420,00 € bis 450,00 € arises…
Thanks to informant Segway for the investigation!!!
Now we only have to convince Santa Claus as sponsor, and the fun can begin.
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