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DAVID HALL 1823 views AUST
David Hall(born 1970) is a world champion wheelchair tennis player who has been referred to as Australia’s greatest ever wheelchair tennis player. For David, it all began sometime after his injury (double leg amputee) at age 16 when he was looking through the local paper and saw a picture of a man in a wheelchair playing tennis. Inspired, Hall began to play and entered his first wheelchair tennis competition, the 'Albury-Wodonga Classic', in 1988. This led to him competing in his first Australian Open in February 1989. Playing in the C division, Hall won. The following year, Hall participated in his first international competition and turned professional in 1993. 1995 saw Hall relocate to the United States. The year culminated with Hall winning the US Open Singles title and being ranked number one in the world. Read on to share more of David's journey and experiences...
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DYLAN ALCOTT - FACEBOOK 650 views AUST
Not many people can lay claim to being a Paralympic gold medalist and a World champion whilst still being in their teenage years, Then again, there aren’t many people like Dylan Alcott.
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LET'S ROLL WHEELCHAIR TENNIS COACHING WITH THE PROS 3890 views AUST
Learning wheelchair tennis has just become a lot easier! One of the masters of the sport, 6-time World Champion David Hall, together with his long-time coach Rich Berman, have put together a comprehensive video tutorial of all the basics of playing wheelchair tennis. The tutorial covers all areas of the wheelchair game, such as basic strokes and mobility, advanced strokes and mobility, mental toughness, wheelchair selection and injury prevention - all for free!
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THE QUADFATHER - PETER NORFOLK 3713 views UK
Welcome to Quadfather.co.uk - the home of Peter Norfolk. It is possible to have an international sports career even when the odds seem to say that you can't. If you’d like any advice on wheelchair tennis or just getting on with life in a wheelchair, why not email me.
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ACCESS SPORT AMERICA 2265 views USA
Access Sport America is dedicated to building personal empowerment for people with disabilities through participation in windsurfing and other sports. Our High-Challenge Sports Program adaptive windsurfing, outrigger canoeing, kayaking for children and adults is in full swing in sites throughout New England and Florida.
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ADAPTIVE CONCEPTS AUSTRALIA 948 views AUST
Adaptive Concepts Australia provides mobility technologies to help you live an active and adventurous lifestyle. We have been operating in Australia since 2003 under our Melrose Wheelchairs business. As an integral part of our product offering, we are continuing to operate the Melrose Wheelchairs Australia business. However, with the additional of Adaptive Concepts Australia we can now offer you a broader range of high quality adaptive sporting technologies.
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INTERNATIONAL (WHEELCHAIR) TENNIS FEDERATION 2514 views USA
Promotes wheelchair tennis through the organising of sanctioned competition and regulation of international play. Many tetraplegics and quadriplegics play tennis by strapping/taping the racket to their hand.
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UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ADAPTED ATHLETICS 2280 views USA
Upcoming events, recent news, Men's basketball, Women's basketball, Tennis
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NEW MOBILITY MAGAZINE 'RANDY SNOW - PLAYING THE MOMENT' 2590 views USA
You've heard it before: "The first few years of my disability were so scary I did very little and ran away from everything." You know the feeling: the trauma of sudden disability that drops on you like an anvil. But these words come from a man who went on to be selected six times to the U.S. Wheelchair Basketball Team, win 10 U.S. Open Wheelchair Tennis titles and three medals in three different Paralympic sports, something no Olympian has ever done before or since. This man also won the Jack Gerhardt Award (equivalent to the Heisman Trophy for wheelers), was inducted into the Wheelchair Sports Hall of Fame and was Speaker of the Year for Toastmasters. Yes, Toastmasters--you've got to hang up the old jock strap sometime, even if you're Randy Snow."
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MARTYN ASHTON 'BACK ON TRACK'!! website 
 NEVER EVER SAY 'NEVER!'....After sustaining a life changing paraplegic spinal cord injury in 2013, Martyn Ashton, mountain bike and Road Bike Party legend, is Back On Track. Watch this great downhill mountainbiking action with the man...

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MARTYN ASHTON 'BACK ON TRACK'!!



LONELY PLANET ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL PHRASEBOOK website 
 All travellers will get more out of their trip by being able to speak a few words of the local language, but for people with a disability it’s often vital to be able to explain your particular needs. Since standard phrasebooks are unlikely to contain the language you need to talk about needs around disability we’ve gathered together some disability-specific words and phrases and translated them into as many different languages as we practically could. Although things are slowly changing for the better, there are still plenty of barriers to travel for people with a disability – language doesn’t have to be yet another. 

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LONELY PLANET ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL PHRASEBOOK


BJOERN ESER & 'THE ACTIVE AMPUTEE' website 
 I am Bjoern Eser, the creator of The Active Amputee. I am a father of three amazing children, a husband to an equally amazing wife, a thankful cancer survivor, an outdoor enthusiast, a passionate development practitioner and a very active above-the-knee amputee.
I have set up The Active Amputee as a resource page from amputees for amputees. It aims to inform, it aims to inspire and it aims to engage. Nothing more and nothing less. It‘s as simple as that.
At the moment The Active Amputee publishes a new post once a week. 

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BJOERN ESER & 'THE ACTIVE AMPUTEE'


RAIDaptive DIVING website 
 The RAIDaptive program was designed to bring the sport of diving to persons with disabilities by adapting the RAID Open Water 20 course to the abilities demonstrated by the diver with disabilities. The RAIDAptive Course is designed to teach individuals with disabilities to become certified divers with the goal of using certified RAIDaptive Dive Buddies to compensate for those skills that they cannot independently perform. The student will be certified according to the following Designations:

Designation 1- The student must be able to perform all skills independently with the exception of Entries and Exits
Designation 2 - The student must be able to perform all skills independently with the exception of Entries, Exits, Emergency Ascents, Maintaining Positive Buoyancy at the surface by oral inflation of the BCD
Designation 3 - The student must be able to breathe continuously and monitor gas supply. The student will require assistance with all other aspects of diving.
To become a certified RAIDaptive Open Water diver, the students need to have basic swimming skills, be comfortable in the water, and should be in a good overall health, have a mature attitude, sound judgement and self-discipline to follow the guidelines that they will be taught for safe diving.
Medical clearance from a registered diving Doctor is also required

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RAIDaptive DIVING


JAIMEN HUDSON - 'THE VIEW IS BETTER FROM UP HERE!' website 
 I have always been passionate about the outdoors, as a youth my days were filled with activities like riding dirt bikes, skateboarding, surfing and scuba diving. Learning to dive at age 10 only added to my love of the ocean. In 2008 I had an accident that left me a quadriplegic and in 2014 I became interested in drone photography and videography, although I wasn't sure I would be able to use the remote controller due to my reduced hand function. Since then though I've been lucky to have my work featured in many prominent media outlets and publications and have also won the Western Australia 'Young Achiever Award' in 2018. I hope you enjoy what you see...!

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JAIMEN HUDSON - 'THE VIEW IS BETTER FROM UP HERE!'


TOM DOUGHTY - LAP GUITAR TUTORIALS website 
 These tutorials have been developed by Creative United and Tom Doughty to offer an introduction to playing Lap Guitar. Specially created to accompany workshops on his tour of the UK’s 12 Spinal Injury Units in early 2019, these tutorials are for anyone with limited upper limb movement.

Creative United is part of a consortium with OHMI, Drake Music, Youth Music and OpenUp Music, whose aim is to make music and musical instruments more widely available, particularly to disabled people for whom playing a conventional musical instrument may be difficult or impossible.



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TOM DOUGHTY - LAP GUITAR TUTORIALS







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