HE CRASHED MY WHEELCHAIR (Behind the Scenes)

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  • @annaeaster1498
    @annaeaster1498 5 лет назад +81

    *louis falls backwards*
    Me: lol
    *Fall counter appears*
    Me: Oh no

  • @RLP1117
    @RLP1117 5 лет назад +25

    as someone who has been a wheelchair user since I was born 20 years ago, videos like this always mean a lot to me and it makes me really happy to see able bodied people really experiencing the accessibility challenges that come with using a wheelchair because I have had so many experiences with people saying that they think they can imagine what its like to be in a wheelchair permanently just because theyve broken their leg once and had to use a wheelchair/crutches for a while

    • @joyceallen3400
      @joyceallen3400 4 года назад +2

      Big difference in a few weeks and years.

    • @brendahess2863
      @brendahess2863 3 года назад +3

      Ian in a wheelchair I love the vids but I still learning everyday

  • @maddiewatt2549
    @maddiewatt2549 5 лет назад +29

    I don’t have anyone in my life that has a disability but watching your channel I’ve learned so much. Thank you for educating me.

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +8

      Thanks for being willing to learn a bit more about our lives!

    • @koacado
      @koacado 2 года назад +2

      Same. Honestly it could happen to anyone at any point of our lives it's in everyone's best interest to notice these issues and try to make everything as accessible as possible.
      Same for visually and hearing impaired individuals, etc.

  • @l.donaldson4223
    @l.donaldson4223 5 лет назад +22

    There's a bunch of really wonderful tips in here and revelations --- I remember having a bunch of those myself when I started needing a wheelchair. I hope the crossover brings a lot of knowledge to those who watch the vids. As always, thanks for making these.

  • @Dericmann
    @Dericmann 5 лет назад +36

    Another amazing video i wish more people were willing to learn about the disability life and how we arnt all helpless

    • @joyceallen3400
      @joyceallen3400 4 года назад +2

      I have done a lot of stuff that so many thought I could not do that I would run out of paper making lists. Work, drive, have a partner, family, an accessible place to live, live alone even without a car.
      What always mystifies me is the folks that think you really have a "choice" not to figure out how to get around barriers. Like some fairy god mother is going to come in and fix everything and make it i
      easy because of a disability. That rarely happens even if you do come up with a solution.
      And most don't have a clue what the real workable solution would be and often try to jump in and tell you how but because they are coming at most of it from a different perspective it really buggers things up. Lol

  • @ThatFlyinRyan
    @ThatFlyinRyan 5 лет назад +30

    You guys Taped his legs lol 😂

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +15

      Had to make it as realistic as possible 🤣

    • @ThatFlyinRyan
      @ThatFlyinRyan 5 лет назад +6

      @@Wheels2Walking he did great imo

  • @WholeFoodSpark
    @WholeFoodSpark 5 лет назад +14

    I hope this video helps end the “faking it” rhetoric the media spews regarding ambulatory wheelchair users. NO ONE would fake needing a wheelchair. This video shows how hard using a chair can be.

    • @joyceallen3400
      @joyceallen3400 4 года назад +4

      Few people even know how difficult it is to even get a wheelchair or how expensive. Not like you run down to Walmart and buy an ultralite for a nickle.

  • @TerryWiens
    @TerryWiens 5 лет назад +4

    Very timely. Just got back from a grocery run where I had to do most of the trip on the road (curb-cuts covered in snow). Been doing that 50 years big deal but had a couple of people tell me I shouldn't be on the road. Your comments about eye contact, right on but I won't make myself home bound because other people won't take responsibility for their own driving. I am very conscious of vehicles, visually very acute but also use my sense of "hearing". I do enjoy your vid's because so much of what you touch on reminds me of things I take for granted and the last part of this one on "patronizing" behaviour has always been a challenge for me. Having grown up with this and a dad who was a scout master I often wonder "am I depriving someone of their good deed for the day" whenever I turn down assistance. Love it and it looks like Louis had a great time

    • @merandareast2552
      @merandareast2552 2 года назад

      I feel ya about the curbs/road usage! Over here is so common to have a curb cut on one side but not the other or their idea of a cub cut to be insultingly ridiculous (many are so bad it would be easier to just have an uncut curb, safer too!). There are several places around town where I just roll along the road until I reach somewhere I can pop up onto the sidewalk. Sometimes it’s a block, sometimes more than a kilometre. It can be very frustrating and it IS very dangerous but there really isn’t any other choice if I am going to do what I need to do.

  • @vickyleadbeater2956
    @vickyleadbeater2956 5 лет назад +3

    Love this video! There should be more like this! As a wife of a wheelchair user my eyes have been opened but so many people don’t get it!

  • @Granger70
    @Granger70 2 года назад

    Just started watching your channel, I was diagnosed with MS a couple of years ago, and the permanent wheelchair use is getting closer and closer. I've learned a lot from your videos which has really taken a lot of worries off my mind. Thanks man :)

  • @Frankovelli
    @Frankovelli 5 лет назад +23

    9:35 Honestly I would stare simply because I would be wondering why his legs are taped together with packing tape lol

    • @katiehouston2960
      @katiehouston2960 4 года назад +2

      Morgan Calvi i think it was so he wasn’t tempered to use them or if he fell he couldn’t use them. :)

    • @ak5659
      @ak5659 4 года назад +1

      Some people have annoyingly spastic legs so they tape them together with velcro strips. But if you're going out drinking with your friends and you'll be outside and.... sometimes packing tape is your friend :-)

  • @mauriciolimon9592
    @mauriciolimon9592 5 лет назад +5

    Love your ! channel I've been in a wheelchair for six years and I'm still learning. ♿♿

  • @DwarfDragonwulf
    @DwarfDragonwulf 4 года назад

    I absolutely LOVED this video, dude! And thank you Louis for taking on the challenge. It's not easy. And Richard, I absolutely agree with that conversation at the end. I tell people on facebook to ask before helping when you see a disabled person and want to help. I've had "help" that physically hurt me.

    • @DwarfDragonwulf
      @DwarfDragonwulf 4 года назад

      Before the wheelchair, on the walker, I had collapsed one day, and a guy stopped to help me. He tried to pick me up with his hands digging into my armpits! Armpits are not a handle, and it doesn't take much pressure on them to make them hurt. You cannot lift your body weight on your armpits. He said he was worried about touching my boobs. In this situation, I don't care, I know that if he accidentally touched my boobs, it would not be in a sexual way, but an honest mistake.

  • @rbroxton3068
    @rbroxton3068 5 лет назад +2

    I've saved this as some vital tips as a year into using my wheels...great vlog and interesting as yes it's being aware of everything around you but as same time we see so much more which I think everyone seems to take for granted.
    This collaboration is great.....awareness is good ...

  • @Caline724
    @Caline724 5 лет назад +8

    I'm not a disabled person but these types of videos interest me cz I have a cousin who's been paralyzed a long time ago but I never got to ask anything about it since there's some age difference between us (I'm 24 and he's in his late 40s), and now am learning things about the struggles he went through and still go through!
    I hope u no one will get offended of me but I just like to learn new stuff 😊

  • @keithatdti
    @keithatdti 5 лет назад +4

    Dude this was an awesome video. Maybe it will open the eyes of people that know what it's like being in a chair or around someone in a chair. Love your videos please keep making them.

  • @Mitto5699
    @Mitto5699 4 года назад

    I never knew how hard it would be to learn to drive a wheel chair. This video is bloody amazing.

  • @stickergirl1750
    @stickergirl1750 Год назад

    Thank you for inspiring me to make a Playlist of able people rolling with us discovering our world.
    Thank you!

  • @georgecurtis6463
    @georgecurtis6463 4 года назад

    This and his video are a great way to show others what we go through. I work with my city on these access issues. Always a fight.

  • @StalkAlexHere
    @StalkAlexHere 5 лет назад +5

    Hi Richard!! 👋🏼 😊 ♿️
    I am a new, ambulatory wheelchair user, and I just wanted to say thank you so much for your videos!
    I got my first chair about a month ago, after a sudden major decline in mobility due to my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (a rare connective tissue disorder that causes constant dislocations). I live 50/50 between Chattanooga, TN & Athens, GA, so I spent a lot of time in the Atlanta area; I was wondering if you’d ever consider doing one of your “Ask Me Anything” videos with other types of chair users...? (I.e- ambulatory, non-SCI, etc.).
    I’ve found that there’s a ton of controversy surrounding ambulatory chair use, especially when people see me stand up from my chair, and I would absolutely love to help bring awareness to the fact that not all wheelchair users are paralyzed! 😊

    • @ak5659
      @ak5659 4 года назад +1

      I knew a guy in college wko could stand up from and sit back down into his wheel chair with amazing grace and perfect balance. But take a step? Flat on his face. He used to do it once in a while to freak people out, lol.

  • @RedPanda450
    @RedPanda450 5 лет назад +1

    I found your channel today and I've got to say that you're making really informative content. Thanks, dude.

  • @RobinP556
    @RobinP556 5 лет назад +19

    Cool video! More people should give that a try.
    The 2 things that bug me the most are when I’m stopped somewhere listening to something and leans on my shoulder, like I’m some sort of stationary object. The other is when people walk up to me when I’m getting in or out of my car and no matter how many times I say don’t help, they continue to “help”.
    One last thing is when someone comes up to me and asks if I know someone because they’re in a wheelchair also. That one doesn’t really bother me, but it’s like I’m in some kind of special top secret wheelchair fraternity.
    I forgot, one final thing. It’s been a lot of years, but when I was in rehab the Sunday church crowd would try and let them pray for me. Dude, I’m in a wheelchair for life, I’m cool with that, just shut up and go speak your witchcraft to someone else.

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +8

      I think you’re my new favorite person

    • @Andrewdeitsch
      @Andrewdeitsch 5 лет назад +6

      Is this Richard writing this comment from a fake account 😂😂 this sounds exactly like him

    • @jslferrell
      @jslferrell 5 лет назад +3

      We’ve offered tours in our town. No one seems interested, especially those for whom accessibility is their job. They treat those trying to teach them like they’re stupid.
      The Hubs is a volunteer chaplain at our hospital. He has been refused by patients who have requested a visit because ‘he’s a cripple without faith’. ‘He’d stand up if he truly believed.’ Yeah, Toxic Person, like he can without killer problems and pain.

    • @shannonw7144
      @shannonw7144 5 лет назад +7

      @robin Best comment ever! I’m a Christian and laughed out loud! I like telling the holy rollers “nah, I’m good. God made me and he doesn’t make mistakes, but hey can you pray for accessibility for all?” Very rarely do they have a response. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад +2

      Preach, Sister Robin! 😋 ❤️ 😘

  • @Jrolling94
    @Jrolling94 5 лет назад +2

    This video was awesome. I would love to show people my perspective in a electric wheelchair. Crazy life!

  • @kaylynlipscomb
    @kaylynlipscomb 5 лет назад +2

    I've been in a wheelchair since I was 10 as I had a tethered cord twice which paralyzed me. I'm 22 now. I hate when people constantly stare at me for being in a wheelchair. I prefer them to ask questions. When I was first put in the chair my own sister made fun of me so one day my mom strapped her in my chair for the day she couldn't use anything but her upper body. She learned how it feels to be in my situation

  • @baja1980s
    @baja1980s 3 года назад

    Great video man, been 5 yrs rolling and still learning.. 🤜🏽🤛🏻

  • @peaceonearth351
    @peaceonearth351 5 лет назад +5

    Props to the guy with the nice camera work.

    • @Andrewdeitsch
      @Andrewdeitsch 5 лет назад +3

      Lol ninja walking backwards for like an hour 😂 it was a long day. I wish I could have gotten more cool B Roll or Slow Mo shots but I still think the video turned out great

    • @joyceallen3400
      @joyceallen3400 4 года назад

      For real this is great camera work.

  • @unicorngurl89
    @unicorngurl89 5 лет назад

    I am not a wheelchair user but i have spent a lot of time on crutches due to broken bones. I really love the way you explained how to maneuver the chair. My family jokes it's only a matter of time before my ankles give out. I find your explanations interesting.

  • @AryNassiri
    @AryNassiri 5 лет назад +1

    Great video, Richard! Recently subscribed to your Patreon and have been catching up on your podcasts. You and Andrew are the cutest. 😂 Cool seeing you and Louis rolling around Venice, I miss it there. I was close by in Santa Monica just a year ago when I had a bicycle accident that left me with L3 SCI and a leg amputation. Been appreciating getting your guidance and experience throughout my recovery. Looking forward to seeing what else you got in the works. Best wishes. Peace. ✌️

  • @abilitease
    @abilitease 5 лет назад +1

    Another great video! Not the most accessible place, but the Venice Boardwalk is a classic spot.

  • @AtulKumar-yg6hz
    @AtulKumar-yg6hz 4 года назад

    I am feeling very good and confident to see you. 🙏 🇮🇳 Thank you so much.

  • @ak5659
    @ak5659 4 года назад

    Anyone who uses sign language gets the same kinds of stares.
    In college I had a friend who used a chair. Sometimes after we'd had a few drinks he'd challenge us to use his chair and complete tasks so we'd get a tiny taste of what his life was like. I didn't realize how much we were learning at the time.
    He did warn us he was a bad example; wheelchairs rarely lasted more than a year for him because he was so hard on them.

  • @koltonsmith141
    @koltonsmith141 5 лет назад +38

    I absolutely hate when people comment about my wheelies and how fast im going and stuff like that i know thwy dont know better but its hella anoyyinh 😂

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +14

      For real man. People always gotta be saying something 🙄 lol

    • @FeralWench
      @FeralWench 5 лет назад +4

      I remember one guy yelled at me as I strolling down the walkway and said, "do a wheelie!!!". I just looked at him straight in the eyes like he was nuts and he looked away. 😅 Confidence tends to combat those little weird situations.

    • @PedroPerez-bk5gg
      @PedroPerez-bk5gg 5 лет назад +4

      They always tell me to slow down I’m like bro your slow as shit

    • @jslferrell
      @jslferrell 5 лет назад

      The Hubs has more than once told people that his motorized gets killer gas mileage when people get ‘cute.’

    • @peaceonearth351
      @peaceonearth351 5 лет назад

      Do a wheelie! Lol

  • @Fiddlinfrenzy
    @Fiddlinfrenzy Год назад

    You said it all, thanks. I learnt a lot from you.

  • @cass_p
    @cass_p 4 года назад

    Even though I've been a wheelchair user for years, I've picked up several useful tips from you. I never qualified for any wheelchair clinics (rare conditions FTW?) so I've had to learn everything for myself, picking up knowledge where I can.

  • @masonx54
    @masonx54 5 лет назад +1

    Awesome video! 💯

  • @peaceonearth351
    @peaceonearth351 5 лет назад +3

    This is a good video for the AB's (Able-bodied) to see.

  • @TorontoMetalMom
    @TorontoMetalMom 5 лет назад +1

    Just found your channel, and really happy I did. I was determined to do things on my own and thus didn't learn some simple "tricks" to make curbs etc easier and a bunch of other stuff. As for comments, I wanted to share the one that annoys me, but I try to remember is coming from a good place, is when I go into a business meeting and someone (luckily usually not the meeting attendees, thank goodness) has to tell me " what an inspiration I am". Why? Because I got out of bed, put a suit and some makeup on?? Or that I can currently support myself? I try to curb my sarcastic personality and mostly succeed...not always but I try.

  • @ilichiregius2884
    @ilichiregius2884 5 лет назад +6

    Ah, blisters and calluses on the knuckles.. 👏👏

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +6

      He got banged up pretty good for the short amount of time he was pushing the chair. Those knuckle buster wheel locks didn’t help at all either 😬

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад +2

      @@Wheels2Walking He should see all the micro scars on our hands.. 😉

    • @joyceallen3400
      @joyceallen3400 4 года назад +1

      Try ripped off fingernails and broken bones because someone is trying to "help". Too often "helpers" get you seriously hurt. Or damage your wheelchair and bag .

    • @carolynramirez52
      @carolynramirez52 3 года назад

      @@joyceallen3400 I had a man that insisted on helping me, even though I repeatedly said no! I was already in my car and he thought it would be a good idea to help get my wheelchair into the car for me. All he did was repeatedly mash the frame of my chair into my boobs trying to get past the steering wheel. 🤬 Some people tend to get offended when we say no thank you or I’ve got this.

  • @Glueby
    @Glueby 4 года назад

    You're my favorite RUclipsr. I love you videos so much man. They are really well put together and I love that you're taking Louis around. I want to do that with my brother now that my new wheelchair should be here any day now!

  • @ChrisPage68
    @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад +2

    It's a strange kind of synchronicity that while you were with one English man in a wheelchair, you met two others. 😁

  • @ProfessorParkes
    @ProfessorParkes 5 лет назад +1

    Ohhh Man, Great video bro! I was laughing the whole time

  • @katiejean5879
    @katiejean5879 5 лет назад +17

    I truly think you’re changing things. Wanna come to my farm and learn how I run my farm and business from a wheelchair? 🦄🐔 🐶 🐴 you can ride a horse :)

  • @annettevillain4352
    @annettevillain4352 5 лет назад +6

    Most people will ask if I need help. Mostly I answer, no thanks. And before the inevitable, "are you sure?" I always follow up with, but thank-you for asking. Or, I appreciate the offer. I never want to appear to be the a-hole with the giant crip chip on my shoulder.

  • @figments_one_little_spark6494
    @figments_one_little_spark6494 4 года назад

    The looks given on a daily will always amaze me I hope one day I can meet you

  • @firstcanonkill1767
    @firstcanonkill1767 5 лет назад +1

    throwback to that one time i smiled at this dude, he was in a wheelchair (i smile at everyone! I think the world needs more smilers) and he goes 'I know you're covering up your staring' and i was like ???? I HAVE A CANE NEXT TO ME so I just tapped it and went 'nah, i get it, im just trying to be nice' and in the end it led into an ok chat tbh

  • @thekoo2011
    @thekoo2011 5 лет назад +2

    This is GOLD 💛🔥
    #bestcolab

  • @ThatFlyinRyan
    @ThatFlyinRyan 5 лет назад +7

    Built in crash hellment lol 😂

    • @joyceallen3400
      @joyceallen3400 4 года назад

      Why I have worn a ponytail for years lol

  • @eduardopadilla5505
    @eduardopadilla5505 5 лет назад +1

    Its great that you put louis to try to do everythong we do in a wheelchair!

  • @ninjagaps2919
    @ninjagaps2919 5 лет назад +1

    Your the best man

  • @ItsEm2022
    @ItsEm2022 5 лет назад +2

    Notification Squad!!

  • @johnjkizer6399
    @johnjkizer6399 5 лет назад +3

    Regardless how anyone spends a day in a wheelchair that does not have a spinal cord injury it’s never the same, anyone can sit in a wheelchair all day but it’s the other stuff that come along with a spinal cord injury that is the most difficult, at the end of the day he know he will get up and walk again, I know this because I am a quadriplegic that spent many years in a wheelchair dealing with depression, this video is all good but I feel actually he is only experiencing about 35% of what we deal with and the rest is emotionally and the mental challenge, peace and God Bless.

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +2

      We literally address that in the first 10 seconds and 2 more times during the video.

    • @annettevillain4352
      @annettevillain4352 5 лет назад +1

      The thing is, most people wouldn't even do 5 minutes using a w/c. At least he wanted to see a different perspective.

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад

      It might have been a bit cruel to ask Louis to catheterise himself. 😂

  • @MrRooXs
    @MrRooXs 5 лет назад +9

    Lol... yup they always fall... lol. Another awesome installment. Good to see the bball players out... the world champs are on in thailand. I'm trying to get my wife to spend a few hours in a chair with me, she ain't having it lolol.
    #BuildingAwareness

  • @MsMorganThorne
    @MsMorganThorne 5 лет назад +3

    Awesome video! I used to do long term travel and FunForLouis was one I watched while in the hospital, dreaming about being able to get back out into the world. I'm planning to be back on the road full time in about a year now :) I miss travelling so much! I'm a little worried about accessibility once I get into Central America again, but trying to make sure I have as much off-road equipment and experience as possible will hopefully help.

  • @Wheelz.1988
    @Wheelz.1988 4 года назад

    This video is Incredible as always! I wish more able bodied people had the opportunity to navigate even just a few hours in a wheelchair. It would give them a completely different perspective on what people with disabilities struggle with every day. As for the ‘good job buddy’ comment that hit extremely close to home. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had people *some who I’ve only just met or never met til that moment* tell me how much of an inspiration I am to them. When all I am doing is living my life the best I can. I’m not doing anything spectacular. Yes I get out of the house. Yes I drive. Yes I load and unload my own chair *most of the time even when someone else is with me*. Yes I dress myself and take care of my own medical needs. I’m just living my life. I appreciate that I have had some kind of impact on their life in one way or another but to me it’s just life. Making the best of the cards I was dealt.

  • @markusholladay
    @markusholladay 5 лет назад +1

    I’d totally challenge louis to travel the world in a chair. That’d be some great video series.

  • @nasnonase-noma9338
    @nasnonase-noma9338 4 года назад

    One of my best friends is a weelchair user and I just realised that we never really spoke abut it. I'm mean shure, in the beginning I asked her ones, because she often missed school, now it's more like he discribed it (just normal) with the little aspect that we often make jokes about it (together) that she often miss activities or can't promise she'll meet at time, because of her injuridy.
    I know, a random story about a random person, but I just liked to share it
    Have a great day

  • @cindyr.522
    @cindyr.522 4 года назад

    I was born with Cerebral Palsy so I understand the stares, etc (pretty much oblivious to it now, but it does bother my kids, both teens, to see someone staring at me) because of the way I walk and I do fall (a lot, recently...so out of shape right now) and like you, Richard, I have my ways of getting back up. Sometimes I might ask for help, sometimes not...but when people grab me and try to help me after I say no, let go of me...it makes it harder for me to get up...I Totally get what you mean. I appreciate people trying to help .. I tell them thanks but I got it! 😉 I think a lot of the time the way they stare or talk to us is because they have never seen/known anyone with a disability and I cut them slack for that...and that is what I explained to my son about people staring, just let it go. I will educate them if they ask of course. Questions are better than stares 😀

  • @OscarRisecom
    @OscarRisecom 5 лет назад

    Super!

  • @slartyism
    @slartyism 4 года назад +1

    That's a great video. To see somebody see how chair users get around and just do the normal things everyone does. Pleased he saw the tap on the head, good boy thing that some people unintentionally do. Although it's getting better, I still get the embarrassed store person frantically looking around to avoid making eye contact. Most people are ok, but there will always be an arsehole.
    Keep up with the great work. Best wishes from a very sunny Wales.

  • @marie4pocheswoodworkingmar828
    @marie4pocheswoodworkingmar828 3 года назад

    Good job body! I love what you are doing! It will help others who are in your situation or similar, and also those who have all their capacity but are seeing the world as a big thing! They might realize that they are lucky enough in life and change their perspective! Goof job

  • @Grahamrobinsonvt802
    @Grahamrobinsonvt802 5 лет назад +3

    Wheels for Luis

  • @elusiveillusion1723
    @elusiveillusion1723 5 лет назад +1

    1st off I about died laughing at the gimpy jokes. Even got yelled at for laughing so loud 😂.
    If ppl come up to me ♿️ & ask “what happened to me” randomly in public, I’ll tell them stupid things like bungee jumping and bungee snapped, skydiving and chute failed (I’ll actually say “did u know ppl bounce”? lmao their faces drop off their skulls 💀. It’s hilarious 🤣) drink driver (especially if I’m in a bar or club setting). They don’t need to know my personal business.
    If it’s a kid that asks I’ll tell them to feel their back, feel that bumpy bone 🦴 that’s ur spine mine just isn’t like yours. Or I’ll say my legs aren’t strong enough to walk (sometimes I’ll sneak in it’s because I didn’t eat my fruits and veggies when I was little. When in fact I love fruits and veggies. Their parents smile and mouth thank you sometimes.)

  • @VulcanOnWheels
    @VulcanOnWheels 5 лет назад +5

    18:41 You *are* doing a good job at recording videos that open people's eyes. That's hardly doing nothing.

  • @amandasheehan5582
    @amandasheehan5582 5 лет назад +1

    On the bit where you talk about asking, saying yes to help and no to help I totally agree. I always say I appreciate people asking or offering to help but if I say no I mean no as a good example is getting into my car I have a way of putting my chair onto my passenger seat and a guy approached me and asked do you I need some help. I said no it’s ok but thanks for asking. He decided to ‘help’ anyways and even took parts of my wheelchair around to the other side of the car to put them on the seat. Now don’t get me wrong I’m grateful he was willing to help but I couldn’t get my chair from where he’d put it as it goes in a certain way and out a certain way. I’m lucky enough to be semi-abled and that particular day I could use my crutches to get around the car and tug the chair out (I almost fell as he’d wedged it in). If I’d have had a day where I couldn’t use my crutches I would have been totally buggered up. So please please please if someone says no they mean no but like I say always say thanks for offering tho it means a lot x

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +2

      I always like to say “the best help is no help”

    • @amandasheehan5582
      @amandasheehan5582 5 лет назад

      Wheels2Walking deffo agree there. Thank you sooo much for replying. I love your videos so much and you’ve taught me so much. I’d love to travel to the US and try some of the things you’ve tried as I’m from the UK. I’ve not travelled whilst having to use a wheelchair so that will be an experience. Keep up with the great content and can’t wait to see what’s next x

  • @noneed4aname199
    @noneed4aname199 5 лет назад +3

    Did a drug deal just go down at 9:30 in the background? lol

  • @merandareast2552
    @merandareast2552 2 года назад +1

    While you guys were talking Luis asked about accessibility internationally and someone said “Europe isn’t bad”… where in Europe? In London England there are tube entrances with lifts but you may find yourself getting off somewhere without a lift (and no warning that there is no lift!). Denmark is beautiful but the cobbled streets are murder to try and roll along and almost all shops have steps up into them. Italy is no better and people wonder why you’ve come out in the daylight. Austria has laws for new businesses and all medical clinics but that doesn’t really help when you’re out for the day (I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been told they have a wheelchair accessible toilet only to have to go down stairs and then up stairs and through a super narrow door to get to said toilet!). I live in Germany and accessibility here is appalling. I HATE it when I get told “we can carry you”, when they need to use a forklift (more or less a forklift, looks and feels like a forklift!) to get me onto the cog train , when their idea of a “ramp” is impossible for anyone to safely use (sorry but a 70+ degree incline doesn’t work!) or they do those insanely dangerous “ramps” that are two narrow strips filled in between steps. Either my front wheels fit if my back wheels fit. Not both. The high court in Munich is not really accessible. They THINK it is because I can be escorted in via the prisoners entrance and up the rubbish lift to the main floor and then there are lifts inside so I can access the offices. It’s humiliating, degrading and embarrassing. City Hall in my own city is not accessible so it took me almost two years to do a simple thing because I couldn’t physically get to the office the guy was in and he refused to come downstairs to me. Two years! The list goes on and on. I love it here and this is my home but I really miss the accessibility of Canada and the USA!!

  • @inekogary8870
    @inekogary8870 4 года назад +1

    That’s how people do to us as blind people. I can be standing at a corner with my guide dog and somebody come up and say do you need help crossing and I will say no and then they will try to grab my arm and pull me in and I’m telling him no get your hands off me please I have it. And then say they see me again and then I ask for help they don’t want to help. So people who are blind and people who are in wheelchairs we get moved down on. So I can totally understand on where you’re coming from. When I say no I mean no and I’m totally blind with a guide dog. So when I say no thank you I mean no thank you. So I totally agree with you.

  • @joanmcgilton5075
    @joanmcgilton5075 4 года назад

    When you said someone said good job buddy. They probably thought you were in the service and they thought that’s how you got hurt.

  • @arshiyasidiqaa
    @arshiyasidiqaa 5 лет назад

    The video is so cool also was funny

  • @cass_p
    @cass_p 4 года назад

    One quick critique, I wish when you talk about how you have to work with what you've got despite the inaccessibility of the world, that you'd throw in a quick mention that its important to work towards making the world accessible as well. Its not enough to make do day by day, we also have to try to move the world forward for those that come after us. I know that's not the main thrust of the channel, but it would be nice if you just threw it in as a quick disclaimer. Often what "disables" us is not our conditions, but the condition of the world.

  • @joanmcgilton5075
    @joanmcgilton5075 5 лет назад +1

    The weather looks so nice there
    Wish I lived there. I’m from Ohio

    • @victoriathomson309
      @victoriathomson309 5 лет назад

      I'm from Massachusetts I am totally jealous of that weather

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +1

      Venice is so beautiful year round. I love visiting there!

  • @KrTrip74
    @KrTrip74 2 года назад

    Dude! I been in MY chair since 2007! Different circumstances though,. I had an Aneurysm/Stroke.. which left my entire left side of MY body disabled.. HBP.. and stress, oh, I also used to smoke cigarettes..
    I realize that I DO have lots to learn..
    Where I currently live.. the roads and terrains are absolutely terrible.. I currently have a Ti-lite.. with a custom seat and backrest.. (I used to slide out of my chair all the time in rehab)
    My chair is old.. bottom of the line Ti-lite! It's literally falling apart!

  • @Helena_882
    @Helena_882 3 года назад

    Thats why I have my anti tips cause I have no balance to start 🤣😅

  • @adaptivetravel
    @adaptivetravel 5 лет назад +1

    Find it really funny when able bodied people try to wheelie and kick their their legs out as soon they start to feel unbalanced - I've got a lot of friends to try it and as soon as they panic kick their legs out that's it they're on the floor 😂😂😂 Also I think you might be surprised by how many of us do travel - non elderly style travel! We're planning to spend 2020 travelling (t4 para) and we've spoken to a lot of people who've been to countries most people would thing are inaccessible for wheelchairs! It's not always easy and sometimes we have to take an unconventional approach to get to some places but you can definitely travel if it's something you really want 😀

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +1

      The leg kick is hilarious! You’re the first person who I’ve talked to that travels internationally off the beaten path. Great Chanel by the way!

    • @adaptivetravel
      @adaptivetravel 5 лет назад

      @@Wheels2Walking I'm surprised to hear that but then again most travellers we've talked to were in person and not a lot are on social media for reason! Do you ever consider travelling abroad? Thanks, hoping to improve our editing skills so that our videos will be a little less boring by the time we start our trip so we can show more people what travel can be like!

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +1

      I do! I’d love to do that one day. Good to know I have someone to reach out to! You on IG as well?

    • @adaptivetravel
      @adaptivetravel 5 лет назад

      @@Wheels2Walking Good to hear - hit us up if you ever come to Europe! Yep it's @_para_life (paralife was taken 🙁)

  • @Andrewdeitsch
    @Andrewdeitsch 5 лет назад +3

    Notification SQQQQQUAAAAAD

  • @jobellecollie7139
    @jobellecollie7139 5 лет назад

    My personal irk when I’m grocery shopping. Try and order at the deli and try and get noticed when you are at “ham height” ugh

  • @ryancrooks1196
    @ryancrooks1196 5 лет назад

    I was using my bissell proheat 2X carpet washer the two rotating brushes stopped spinning

  • @ALACGltd
    @ALACGltd 3 месяца назад

    Got CP and use a manual chair. This is so validating actually.

  • @sergiorobelto
    @sergiorobelto 5 лет назад +1

    We making moves ♿️🤟

  • @calebholmes7335
    @calebholmes7335 5 лет назад +2

    Man I wish I could go and do a day in a chair and have to see how accessibility would effect going out my friend is in a chair so accessibility is something that I have to think about sometimes but it would be cool to do a day in a chair I think it could be cool to have a program were people could go out for a day in a chair

    • @davidbrouwers7309
      @davidbrouwers7309 5 лет назад +1

      You can always ask your friend about it, many are willing to lent their old wheels out for a day and show you life from our perspective and teach about their specific disability and daily problems

    • @RubyGloomy
      @RubyGloomy 5 лет назад +1

      Or lots of places lend out or rent out chairs
      In my town a bunch of the town council tried going around town in wheelchairs because they said it was wheelchair friendly after they failed lots of dropped curbs were added

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад

      A day is barely scratching the surface.

    • @calebholmes7335
      @calebholmes7335 5 лет назад

      @@ChrisPage68 I know I'm just saying a glimpse

    • @calebholmes7335
      @calebholmes7335 5 лет назад

      @@davidbrouwers7309 unfortunately I'm to big for one of his old chairs

  • @katiejean5879
    @katiejean5879 5 лет назад +1

    Jesse just laced in babes.

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад

      Hahah one of those babes were his girlfriend 😁

  • @PrismYuuzuki
    @PrismYuuzuki 3 года назад

    I thought my neighbourhood had narrow pavements, but some of those looked super narrow.

  • @samthescotsman
    @samthescotsman 3 года назад

    im in a powechair and the one i have has a mechanism that lifts me up to eye level, thiis makes me taller than i was when i could walk as i am 5 foot tall. i get so many stares when i lift myself up. one time when i was in a shop i was lifted up and a young boy went on his hands and knees and looked at the mechanism, facinated (it does look cool as there is a bit that looks like a machine gun belt). that always makes me laugh.

  • @Catlady003
    @Catlady003 5 лет назад

    ❤️❤️💕💕💗💗

  • @dannydanny9875
    @dannydanny9875 Год назад

    Louie!

  • @ChrisPage68
    @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад

    Richard, I need to address something you said in Louis's video. No-one is "content" being depressed. If you cannot see a way out of the darkness, it isn't your fault. You forget how to ask for help. You even feel guilty for troubling other people with your own struggle.

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад

      Let me rephrase then, some people don’t wanna change, they say they do, but they don’t, therefore they’re “ok” with being depressed.
      I’ve experienced this personally and have met hundreds of people who have overcome depression and they all say “ I had to make the decision to change, no one could have helped me do that”

  • @Ripley1738
    @Ripley1738 5 лет назад

    id like actually like to see you do daily vlogs

  • @highrollers5828
    @highrollers5828 5 лет назад +2

    We made the cut! Check out our Instagram and RUclips channel! @highrollerswbc
    #♿️gang

  • @TH3mrBROWN
    @TH3mrBROWN 5 лет назад

    We did a similar exercise at university (Architecture Degree), where students spent a day going around campus in a wheel chair. It was ridiculous how unfriendly the environment and buildings were for a wheelchair user, despite being designed to ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) standards... meaning even though all the building were accessible using ramps, elevators, door openers, etc... these "accessible" features were often placed out of sight and farther away from traditional methods of getting around. For example, in a couple of the buildings the elevators were down long hallways and away from publicly accessible areas, requiring you to ask staff to take you to them. It was frustrating and confusing, and yes lots of bumping into things. (Also embarrassing having to explain to people you don't actually need help and its just an assignment for class, when they offered to push you...)

    • @annewatson6390
      @annewatson6390 5 лет назад +2

      I'm still trying to work out why the doors to accessible toilets are so heavy ?

    • @DanOnWheels
      @DanOnWheels 5 лет назад +1

      I think it’s great that your school has you use a wheelchair for a day. It would be even better if it was for a week. Incorporating the ADA laws into building design without prospective on the why it’s important is why the elevator is down the hall. It meets the ADA law, but could have been done so much better without increasing the cost of the building. If a building and the city are designed for accessibility, then everyone can use it.

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад +1

      That's because they were designed by non-disabled people.

  • @micnation7938
    @micnation7938 5 лет назад

    I just like the disabled parking, cause people will stop and watch to see what’s wrong with me that justifies my placard lol!!

  • @12antne
    @12antne 4 года назад

    It is a different lifestyle that people who aren’t in our world don’t understand. To bad I only have 1 person who’s stayed in my life.

  • @ziendster1178
    @ziendster1178 5 лет назад

    9:29 nice deal behind you

  • @Hopeandpeaceinjesus
    @Hopeandpeaceinjesus 5 лет назад +1

    I’ve physically been pet on the head by a stranger... and kissed on the cheek too...

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +2

      So condescending. I hate it so much 🙄

  • @raymundozamora5173
    @raymundozamora5173 3 года назад

    👋👋👋👋👋👋

  • @walterbell2422
    @walterbell2422 5 лет назад

    Awesome I love seeing other’s reactions to our daily struggles not gonna lie I died laughing when he fell everyone does it. Thanks for your videos Richard they are truly inspirational

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад

      His was reaction was great! What a good guy for participating 😁

  • @firstcanonkill1767
    @firstcanonkill1767 5 лет назад

    Qatar recently unveiled a disability holiday package so you can access the beach, water and everything else like able-bodied people are always able to!

  • @sarahjanesolonski7531
    @sarahjanesolonski7531 5 лет назад +6

    Are you gonna do a rollettes dance class with Chelsea?

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад +3

      Working on making one! Last time I was in LA we tried to get together but the timing didn’t workout :/

    • @sarahjanesolonski7531
      @sarahjanesolonski7531 5 лет назад

      It would be so cool im in uk and love watching your vlogs I've been in wheelchair not through injury just arthritis but managed to get out and walking again but i get flair ups that send me back to the chair but thank you for highlighting the lack of accessibility we have still a long way to go in uk too but your vlogs and many other wheelchair users help bring it to the attention xx

    • @sarahjanesolonski7531
      @sarahjanesolonski7531 5 лет назад

      Ps can't wait to see your dance moves xx

    • @ilichiregius2884
      @ilichiregius2884 5 лет назад +3

      You have your leotard ready, don't you Richard? 👏

    • @ChrisPage68
      @ChrisPage68 5 лет назад +1

      @@Wheels2Walking Did you watch Gem Hubbard's vlogs about her experience there?

  • @Helena_882
    @Helena_882 3 года назад

    Also, to this day I cant figure out why people stare! Like, why?!?

  • @DanOnWheels
    @DanOnWheels 5 лет назад +2

    You should check out @impact.overland on Instagram. He’s a quadriplegic filmmaker who had a wheelchair accessible camper van made so he can spend a year traveling around South America. He is in San Antonio, Chile, right now waiting to get his van.

  • @gffarg1263
    @gffarg1263 5 лет назад

    Where'd Louis's wheelchair come from? Why'd you tape his legs2

    • @Wheels2Walking
      @Wheels2Walking  5 лет назад

      I borrowed my friends old extra wheelchair and I taped his legs to make it as realistic as possible.

    • @gffarg1263
      @gffarg1263 5 лет назад

      @@Wheels2Walking What do you mean to tape his legs together, to make it as realistic as possible? Are you a quad or a para?

    • @gffarg1263
      @gffarg1263 5 лет назад

      Why did he keep tipping his wheelchair over? You shall give him some expert advice! Have you ever fallen out?