Spent the weekend down in Exmoor with the Back Up Trust.
Anyone who has read my book may remember the chapter about my week away with them back in 2006 and the impact it had on me at the time. With this in mind, it felt like a real right of passage to be back at the same venue at the same time of year to do the same course.
The only difference being that this time I was there as a wheelchair skills trainer, teaching people how to go up and down kerbs, negotiate threshold steps, go down steps, up stairs, and even how to fall out of your chair while playing basketball (well, someone had to, and I'm something of an expert...).
This was my first time as an instructor, and I got a tremendous amount out of the whole experience, watching the participants' confidence increasing over the course of three days. It was especially good to see the sense of achievement after we took them for an eight and a half kilometer push along a coastal path, all very up and down and filled with mud, loose stones and plenty of sunshine.
So now I am determined to continue to make my contribution, hopefully helping other people with SCI to surpass their aspirations.
Anyone who has read my book may remember the chapter about my week away with them back in 2006 and the impact it had on me at the time. With this in mind, it felt like a real right of passage to be back at the same venue at the same time of year to do the same course.
The only difference being that this time I was there as a wheelchair skills trainer, teaching people how to go up and down kerbs, negotiate threshold steps, go down steps, up stairs, and even how to fall out of your chair while playing basketball (well, someone had to, and I'm something of an expert...).
This was my first time as an instructor, and I got a tremendous amount out of the whole experience, watching the participants' confidence increasing over the course of three days. It was especially good to see the sense of achievement after we took them for an eight and a half kilometer push along a coastal path, all very up and down and filled with mud, loose stones and plenty of sunshine.
So now I am determined to continue to make my contribution, hopefully helping other people with SCI to surpass their aspirations.
Leave a comment