Author: MJT
Wheel Chair Sports; Disability Does Not Matter!
Who said sports are only for people who can walk on their
own? Well, it is not, in fact. For wheel chair sports is one of the most famous
modern day sports. Wheel chair sports are specifically for those who are
disabled physically, and those who are physically affected due to intellectual
disability. Most of the time, the sports are actually modified from existing
sports of non-disabled ones, to meet the needs of the wheel chair bound.
Wheel chair sports, sometimes also known as adapted sports,
due to the nature of the adaptation from normal sports, are not something so
new to the modern sports world. It had been in spotlight for the past 30 years
at least. If the normal people have their Olympics, the wheel chair bound have
their Paralympics, which comprises of all kinds of sports for the disabled
people at international level, which includes wheel chair sports.
As times have changed, more and more different types of
wheel chair sports are introduced. And most of the newer ones are not adapted
ones, and are sports that are originally created for the wheel chair bound
people.
Common Sports and the Wheel Chair
Some of the most common wheel chair sports would be table
tennis, tennis, badminton, basketball, and many more. At international levels,
these games are being held at the Paralympics for everyone from any country in
the world. Governed by the International Paralympics Committee and many other
international sport organizations, they work the same way as the Olympics work.
The sport competitions are aired live in many countries around the world,
especially in the participating countries.
These days, even bowling, hockey, football, baseball are
pretty famous for wheel chair sports. However these vigorous sports can not be
played by manual wheel chairs, but only with electric wheel chairs. And that is
why most of the names of the wheel chair sports have the term ‘electric wheel
chair’ before the name, for example ‘electric wheel chair baseball’ and so on.
It is a great burden for manual wheel chair persons to play these games,
especially when it involves much running around.
The electric wheel chair here is very different from the
common electric wheel chair we see in daily life. They are specially modified
to travel at higher speeds up to 15mph or even more. Since movement is a very
important part of wheel chair sports, the wheel chair needs to be very flexible
as well, as regards to turning left and right, moving back and forth, instantly
as the instruction is given.
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