Posts Tagged ‘Sport’
星期四, 一月 19th, 2012
There are various reasons for somebody to make himself comfortable in a wheelchair. I won’t go into any more detail concerning this point. With a little practice you can guess what has happened to this guy who crosses your way twenty meters before you’re close to him.
I would like to mention at this point that most of us just aren’t able to walk or to walk anymore, and apart from that the neuronal networking is at least at the same level with the average population.
It is not necessary to reject anybody who isn`t able to walk anymore and send him into retirement. There are too little jobs for wheelers!!
On TV you sometimes see actors doing pleasure rides in a wheelchair. An affected person would never take a seat in such a crap chair. A real wheeler brings his own requisite.
At advertising shots for technical aids like wheelchairs, handcycles, wheelchair accessories and special clothing I demand a few jobs for us. Indeed due to the paralysis the belly gets a little bigger, but with Photoshop you can retouch this without any problems. 
Recently a glossy promotional sheet for wheeler clothing fluttered into my mailbox.
That’s not bad though so you always keep up to date what is hip regarding clothing, colours and accessoires during the next wheelchair season.
The supposed „colleague“ has a top handcycle with motor support harnessed to his wheelchair. This is even a special type of handcycle for a quadriplegic like me, who barely can or are completely disabled to grasp. When driving the hands are fixed and you change gears with your chin.
At least the model, probably a pedestrian or a paraplegic who has never seen a handcycle before, should have had to be told how to grasp the handles.
Does that always have to attract my attention only?
There they are, our jobs…!!!
Hands in handles should look roughly like this, look at my picture:
I don’t look too bad for a model, do I? OK, the belly is cut off 
Translator Teo
Tags:Frankfurt, Greifen, Handbike, Job, Sport
Posted in Allgemein, Eigude- Pranger, Hilfsmittel, Hilfsmittel für Tetras, Sport | 3 Comments »
星期二, 十二月 13th, 2011
During my hospital detention due to my shinbone fracture my wheelchair including me has lost almost 10 kg of weight. Maybe due to the food, or did I idle around fasting too much???
Usually I can eat what I want, the wheelchair is getting heavier and heavier,… now suddenly lighter and lighter…
Too bad that my body has not only used up the redundant fat tissue which I basically don’t mind, but also plenty of my painfully worked out muscles.
October had good weather and November was the driest of all times…, but that doesn’t help if you are lying with a splint and outstretched leg, with the overall appearance of a Russian tank, only driving from sleeping room passing kitchen and bathroom to the office and back. In exceptional cases a short break was taken in the dining room.
Now adding some Christmas cookies, and the wheelchair will be more heavy than ever.
To counteract the muscle wasting an individual
Despite-orthosis-indoor-training-program
was developed. On my
leg exercise machine
the foot rests were demounted so that it can be used as arm exercise machine in spite of the leg orthosis on the right.
The familiar
Swing stick
wears everyone down in the long run. ( note the yellow ball).
The daily exercise with the
Thera-band in bed
should according to experience and due to safety reasons not be done without protective glasses.
More exercises with the Thera-band, “Fit in Wheelchair”: Join in!!!
Translator BL
Tags:Hilfsmittel, Physiotherapie, Sport, Tipps und Tricks
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星期二, 八月 23rd, 2011
I got persuaded to travel to the “near abroad” last week for a hand cycle boot camp
Oberstdorf im Allgäu (Bavaria).
I have been to many countries already and was able to communicate with the respective inhabitants in English or French quite well.
Apart from the language barrier, the weather has disturbed my whole training schedule.
My since months proven and tested training schedule with several rides in the rain per day was ruined totally by one week of everlasting sunshine. In London (Paralympics 2012) it rains the whole year, as everybody knows, so you have to be prepared.
My equipment had to be converted rapidly from high speed rain jacket to strongly braking cooling cap and vest.
Due to the beautiful sunsets every day the coaches got so melancholic that there was nothing to do with them any more. They were occupied with writing post cards and painting by numbers.
The signage of the race track must have been the result of
Fools at work.
signs in both directions meaning: all trails
Meanwhile I had completely lost my way, so that I ended up on the
Nebelhorn
middle sign meaning: panorama trail – wheelchair and stroller accessible
and finally on the
Way of St James
(in German: Jakobsweg)
OK, this was driven back quickly .
Back in Frankfurt at last.
Last night I was finally able to exercise reasonably again with 16°C and 20 litres of rain/m²!
Translator BL
Tags:Handbike, Cooling Cap, Kühlweste, Oberstdorf, Schild, Sport, Urlaub
Posted in Allgemein, Hilfsmittel, Sport, Urlaub | 2 Comments »
星期六, 一月 29th, 2011
“Die Maus”
(translator’s note: The Mouse, a popular character from German kids TV) escorts me since 2,5 years, already at the time when I was still in hospital, back on my rucksack, in my wheelchair life.
Meanwhile I also have the Mouse as figurehead and a Mouse-toolkit on my hand cycle.
Two people from the Aids foundation have pinned an Aids ribbon on it a couple of weeks ago.
My wife has even baked Mouse muffins and Mouse cakes for me.
The Mouse can witness everything what I have experienced.
It will be 40 years this year.
Because I am also facing the 40 and even Wiki couldn’t reveal to me who is older I went to the homepage and have asked the Mouse itself.
The editorial office has sent a very nice e-mail to me.
According to my opinion the exact age of the Mouse should not be concealed.
Extract from this e-mail:
Because the Mouse has entered the world already on March 7th 1971 while you have set foot on this planet as new arrival only 6 months later, the Mouse is clearly the older one.
Of course I had to report this to you.
I am asking to put the date in your calendars and wish the Mouse a happy birthday on March 7th.
Translator BL
Tags:Handbike, Maus, Rollirucksack, Sport
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星期二, 九月 14th, 2010
Some days ago I made a ride on my hand cycle.
(see older blogpost, trade hand cycle off for therapy pony).
My wife accompanied me on her bicycle.
I was more than positively surprised that the city of Frankfurt eventually managed to tar the old gravel path on the river Main after centuries.
It was going downstream, the cycle was rolling and rolling…
Unfortunately there is an express highway between the bicycle path on the river and two districts of the city. Because I can’t take the pedestrian bridge with my wheelchair and wanted to go to the street fair in one of the districts I had to ride further until after perceived 20 km, probably really 3 km, there was eventually a traffic light.
I had fairly shot my bolt.
After a bratwurst and a hop blossom ice tea * my motivation for the return ride was shattered.
When I was slowly riding home, I already fancied using the tram, I coincidentally met a former colleague, let’s call him Harald, with his
Didi Thurau – Memory Bicycle.
(translator’s note: famous German road bicycle racer from the 70’s and 80’s)
We had rather the same destination.
He pushed me sitting on his bike!
Without breaks, we reached a top speed of up to
26 Km/h on the 8 km way home.
My electric wheelchair tractive Speedy-Elektro only makes
max. 6 Km/h, otherwise it would need a license plate.
If Harald should have had a license plate???
Thanks again from this side.
Comment of my wife:
I am not used to such a speed any more as I usually roll with perceived 5 km/h behind the hand cycle and my biggest sporty challenge is not to fall from the bike at this “speed”, so that today my muscles are kind of sore for the first time. 
*(In a narrower sense, beer is an alcoholic and carbonated beverage which is gained by fermentation mostly from the basic ingredients water, malt and hop). (Source: Wikipedia)
Translator BL
Tags:Bier, Frankfurt, Handbike, Rolli, Rolliräder, Sport
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星期五, 六月 4th, 2010
During the winter I had
Mountainbike Wheelchair tyres
(see older blog post)
built according to my ideas to brave the quantities of snow.
Just in time with the thawing in Frankfurt the tyres were ready.
To conduct an endurance test with the tyres anyhow they were subject to a two week testing in the
Alps
Extreme up and down Snow-Riding!
Extreme Off-road Hand cycling
Extreme Haldensee- Rounding
Extreme Wheelchair Jumping
All tests were completed more or less successfully.
Broken axles, flat tyres and broken spokes were incurred only sporadically. As three to five defects per week are usual in the technical aids area there are no hurdles for serial production.
Translator BL
Tags:Handbike, Hilfsmittel, Oberstdorf, Rolli, Rolliräder, Sport, Tipps und Tricks
Posted in Allgemein, Pimp My Rolli, Urlaub, Winter | 2 Comments »
星期四, 六月 3rd, 2010
A visit to the swimming pool in my case turns out to be a little bit like the launch of a
Containership.
There are the most different methods to be
„watered“
Possibilities are e.g. a hydraulically swinging bench, a chair in which one is wound down to the water, or a shower chair in which one is pushed down a ramp into the wet as at a ship’s christening.
Into the sea one is pushed e.g. with a beach wheelchair.
(see older blog post).
The strangest variant reminds immediately of the good old
Chairoplane
on a fun fair. The fun begins with this
floating chair
being 10 cm higher than my cushion, and I would have had to unpack little wings to get on it on my own. Presumably for hygienic reasons the footrest was installed towards the inner side of the chair so that not everybody puts his unwashed feet on it.
If the jump on this thing was successful you swing the safety bar around. The copilot (assistant) drives you to the starting position in front of the pool, hooks you up with two belts into the hoist mounted on the ceiling, and the flight above the water may start.
Before watering put on your life vest!
Translator BL
Tags:Badewannenlifter, Hilfsmittel, Lifter, Oberstdorf, Schwimmen, Sport, Urlaub
Posted in Allgemein, Everyday life aids, Hilfsmittel, Sport, Urlaub | 3 Comments »
星期四, 五月 27th, 2010
Exercise of all kind is in spite of the paralysis extremely important. My daily morning 1 – 1,5 hours of
wheeler yoga in bed
are showing the first results. Additionally a bit
leg training,
Swimming Pool,
Hand cycle,
Physio therapy (see older blogpost)
and I am ready for the next
Paralympics.
I am not sure about the discipline, any ideas?
I only get tired quickly!
Translator BL
Tags:Handbike, Krankenhaus, Physiotherapie, Schwimmen, Sport, Therapie
Posted in Allgemein, Sport | 1 Comment »
星期二, 四月 27th, 2010
This winter during snow drift I have bought a
run-in hand cycle
(see older blogpost).
The main reason was probably my guilty conscience after I stood with my wheelchair on a platform laundry scale. I can eat whatever I want, the wheelchair is getting more and more heavy
The bike was auctioned for charity. The proceeds should be used to purchase a horse!
Swapping “donkey on wheels” for therapy pony!
This is really true, donations are still accepted.
The bike was allowed to have a rest in my cellar after the long journey from the north.
It was run-in so well that around 200 gram unnecessary
dead weight in screws and nuts
were thrown off in the last years and thus missing.
The driving noise
was probably planned that loud for safety reasons so that you are heard by the other traffic participants, like a fire engine on duty.
The bike chain
reminded of a hammock and was as dry as the Namib desert. (I haven’t been to the Gobi desert yet.)
The universal fastener,
with which the hand cycle is adjusted to the particular wheelchair, was locked with two high-quality steel weld seams, so that the adjustment to my wheelchair was made a little more difficult than planned.
The person who welded the fastener knew what he was doing and is probably working in the shipbuilding in a dockyard. The weld seams were bombproof…
The original handles and gear shift
have been adjusted by some friends for me so that I can use them with my buckled fingers and hands.
I could have used the original special handles only limited, they cost 230 € and I didn’t like them anyway.
The rack
was additionally mounted with two small
iron plates
of around 10 cm length to keep it up horizontally.
My mate calls such constructions usually:
Russian-style: Looking sh…, but working well.
Why the previous owner didn’t take the provided clamps from the rack and turned them around will remain his secret.
Now I can take on with any granny at the
Rollator race.
Equal opportunities at last!!!
As you can see my pot belly still didn’t get smaller, but I keep you posted!
Translator BL
Tags:Handbike, Hilfsmittel, Rolli, Sport
Posted in Allgemein, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli, Rollituning Werkstatt, Sport | No Comments »
星期日, 三月 7th, 2010
I have bought the
hand cycle
with an extra amount of snow.
The costs of such a bike start from 2400€ when it’s new
(no typing error).
It doesn’t even have 2 wheels!!!
One day it should look like this (see newer blogposts).
I have to clean instead of writing 
Still no clue how I should hold the handles…,
let alone how I should shift the gears?
The handles issue should work out somehow with lots of duct tape, construction foam, sanitary silicone and super glue so that I can hold them with my buckled fingers.
There is a variant to shift gears with the chin.
Attach a toothbrush to the lever,
and I sell the bike in Ebay in the beauty section for double the price.
Translator BL
Tags:Greifen, Handbike, Sport
Posted in Allgemein, Diverses, Hilfsmittel, Pimp My Rolli, Urlaub | No Comments »
星期三, 十一月 25th, 2009
Wir Tetras untereinander bezeichnen uns selbst als
„Teddys“ oder hin und wieder als „Tetrapack“. Da ich
Fußballfan der Eintracht Frankfurt bin, erinnerte ich
mich daran, dass die Eintracht ca.1995 auf ihren
Trikots Werbung für „Tetra Pak“ machte. Diese Trikots
waren ungewöhnlicherweise damals auch noch Leuchtgelb.
Kurz und knapp: Ich brauchte so ein Teil!!!
Wie bekommt man ein über 10 Jahre altes Trikot, dass
damals schon recht selten war, da die meistens Fans die
Traditionellen Eintracht Farben Rot-Schwarz
bevorzugten. Ich hasse es, wenn mir ständig jemand
erzählt, was er in Ebay vercheckt hätte und wie sie
noch den Preis hochgetrieben hätten.
Ist doch normal bekommt man dann zu hören.
Die Ebay- Ausbeute war lau.
Ich habe daraufhin in diversen Fanforen meine Trikotsuche begonnen.
Die Resonanz war beachtlich!
Leider wurden mir fast nur schwarz- rote Trikots
angeboten.
Niemand hatte mir gleich seine Preisvorstellung
genannt, wie ich es eigentlich gewohnt bin!!!
Ich war geplättet.
Sollte es möglich sein, dass man mich einmal nicht
„über den Tisch zu ziehen versucht.“
Es ist kaum zu glauben, ein anderer Eintrachtfan hat
mir sein gelbes neuwertiges Trikot nicht nur geschenkt,
sondern wollte nicht einmal das entstandene Porto
haben.
Sein Kommentar: Das Trikot würde ich dir kostenlos
überlassen, wenn ich dir damit einen Gefallen tun kann.
Was das Geld angeht, will ich weder etwas für das
Trikot noch fürs Porto. Aber vielleicht sehen wir uns
mal beim Spiel, dann kannst du ja das Halbzeit-Bier
übernehmen
Was habe ich mich gefreut!
Ich musste das einfach mal loswerden, hilft mehr als
irgendeine meiner anderen 12 Tabletten.
Tags:Bier, Ebay, Eintracht, Frankfurt, Fußball, Sport, Tetra Pak, Trikot
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