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This is Wheelchair Skater's first full length DVD. Watch Courtney Cooper, Chris Bailey and Scott Horton tackle some of the biggest skateboard parks Califorina has to offer in there wheelchairs. This is disabled extreme sports at it's best! Help carve the DIS out of ABILITY. Only $14.95 before tax. Run time 33 minutes.
Gavin Williamson and Eric Lindsley met in Santa Cruz back in 2003 the day Eric got out of the hospital and about 1 year after Gavin's injury. The pair quickly began scheming new ways to shred. Eric, then a testing engineer for Santa Cruz Bicycles, and Gavin, a student at UC Santa Cruz soon began to ride their handcycles around the city together. After discovering ParaPros Downhill bikes and Outlet Industries (now R-One) – two down hill 4-wheel mountain bike manufacturers – online, Lindsley and Williamson, whose backgrounds were in mountain biking and BMX, quickly decided that fourcross (the moniker for the sport of 4-wheel mountain biking) was much more their speed than handcycling.
“[H]e educated the sons of chieftains in the liberal arts and gave higher marks to the talents of the Britons than to the studied skill of the Gauls, with the result that those who recently rejected the Latin language desired eloquence. Then too our manner of dress became stylish and there was widespread use of the toga; and gradually they gave in to the attractions of vices, porticoes and baths and the elegance of banquets. And this was called civilization among those who did not know better, *although it was part of slavery.*”
