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Wheelchair Parkour
\.Vhen you live wit/1 d serious disability. your own home becomes llll obstacle caurse

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BY STEPHEN TRUMPER
ILLUSTRATION BY HAYDEN MAYNARD MAY. 15, 2017

( The sport of parkour involves

running, climbing, vaulting, jumping,

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rolling, and other physical
movements-none of which I can
possibly do, thanks to the sp~al cord
malformation I was born witlij But the
object of the activity, to get around
urban and natural barriers of all
kinds, is something I do out of
10 necessity and, on my best days, with
pleasure. My variation, disability
parkour, is conducted with a
wheelchair, but it is just as inventive
when it comes to busting barriers-
15 many of which are put up by able-
bodied people, and accepted by other
able-bodied people as the way things
are.
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My wife first made the connection

C 20 -between parkour and disability_; one day as we started our morning routine, which involves
her helping me wrestle on my clothes and then hooking straps to my ceiling lift, a device
that hoists me from bed to wheelchair so I can get to work (or elsewhere) by way of my home .
elevator. Many of us with disabilities make it a point of pride to get to work on time-or
earlier-even if we have to wake up well before you do. -:, .

25 Scenes like this play out daily across Canada in homes where disa.Mhty resides. Jake, a ·
~mn:rei:--of my posse of personal support workers (PSWS), ~
1 ake his morning routillf
gr · uick cup of coffee, clothes on, hair combed, and out the door infil.ve to fifteenj
mm es. "Then J discovered it could take~ hour or twoJtO get some clients ready," he says.
PSWS are one way of getting me around barriers: I need them to brush my teeth and hair,
30 feed and wash me, help me with the bathroom, and complete all sorts of chores.
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They are my arms and legs. I am supposedly the brams O d . .P bou't what I need to do and
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core of the philosophy of mdepen ent vmg- ma · I ke the ecis10ns a
accomplish on any given day. .
. . · , d h t ound but they are minor
Still, there are barners I haven t yet figure out ow to _ge ar. : .. ties h sical
35 compared to the ones that prevent far too many Canadians with d 15abili (p Y ' f
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intellectual or otherwise) from more fully participating m socie · . f
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such barners are fear, ignorance, lack of money, o11ow po i c pro al mises , and failures o
imagination.[ ... ]

What I have discovered over the course of my life is that disability parkour can be done
40 in many places: in the courts, in the schools, in the hospitals-wherever there are barriers.
But despite our progr~ss, this country is still without national legislation that would
guarantee against discrimination and enact strict standards for greater inclusiveness in all
areas. It continues to surprise me that it has taken so long for Canada to even consider
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enacting our answer to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which, despite its flaws,
45 was a bold attempt to create a barrier-free United States.

Today, as I write (well, voice), it has been nearly twenty-seven years since the passage of
the ADA. Consultations across Canada seeking public input for the development of new
accessibility legislation have recently wrapped up [...]
It all sounds so hopeful. But it is important to remember that any proposed legislation will
50 still be a long way from actually being introduced, let alone made law. We don't yet know
any details. We don't yet know whether there will be enforcement mechanisms with teeth.
There is definitely room for optimism now that national accessibility legislation is actively -
being considered. But if it falls significantly short of what Canadians with disabilities need
well, we have all learned a few things about getting around barriers-both old and new. '

Adapted from The Walrus.ca

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