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Table tennis sport is very popular in quadriplegic. "Even though we can't hold a bat, 'we strapped the bat to our hands and that is how we start to play and when I tried it myself, I start to fall in love with it.

we need to practice our skills that include the overhead service, a continuous forehand, backhand, yet we can’t grip the racket, and without trunk function. In Table tennis, most of quadriplegic will be Class 1and 2 players and we does not have sitting balance and a severely affected playing arm due to a spinal-cord issue or polio.

In Table tennis, serving the ball is very importance and this sport also are fun for all the quadriplegics. Yet also as I said unfair sport to compete for the match.

One of the sport that we can play is shooting. This sport is one of the expensive sport because you need special locker to keep you gun.

And you need to buy bullet for your practice and of cause it cannot be re used. All the guns are pretty light and we attached a strap on the front of the stock so that we can slip our hand through and pull the gun into our shoulder.
With that action you use more of your biceps and I was able to hold the gun up.

We normally uses his index finger to fire the gun but for Quadriplegic we just could not do that one. We had to tie a piece of bailing twine around the trigger and created about a 2” loop. So that able to get the thumb in that and pulled the trigger that way."some people modify with Adaptive Trigger Mechanisms and enjoy their shooting.

One of the challenges, was holding the gun up with no trunk muscle. We have slid outward from the wheelchair. To get a little more support we should wrapped around on our chest and the back of the wheelchair to help give us. some modify the support stand for gun and stabilize the gun. If you are interested, you may inquire at shooting sport centre.

Sailing sport is allows participants to enjoy the freedom of movement and independence again. It can become mastering the wind in recreational races, or challenging our self to control our boats, sailing offers something for everyone.

Sailing sport is out the box from the land and big investment for every quadriplegics. To adapt for special seating sit and transfer to the boat is not easy at all. As well as controls and rigging.

If you are interested, the first step is getting our self to a sailing centre so that we can join the program and joining the fun. It is not about how far you can go.

There is always need to assist by someone and we do need help always. There is some other sport that we still can play with minimum assist and will continue at next post.

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GO WELL....(By: PatrickSanLin. MSC 007)

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