nm, MichaelEmouse, beat me to it.
Also, FYI, that shit looks dangerous as hell. You shouldn’t be allowed to do that in a gym that doesn’t belong to you.
Awesome. :dubious:
I wonder what would have happened if Jamie wanted to do his pull-ups and there weren’t two people who were willing to lift him and his wheelchair up to the bar? Would he have used his wheelchair to block anyone else from using the equipment until the gym forced two of their employees to assist him?
Then HE would have been in violation of the ADA, and his head would explode at the paradox.
Ha! I like the way they are already calling everyone here ‘idiots’ and ‘ignorant’. Jamie must have brainwashed these people pretty good already. I’m sure they’ll be *really *hard to spot if they come over here to jump to his defence.
Oooh, good find! “Hey, I’m getting my ass-handed to me, wanna come and help me out here?”
Oh jamie, you so crazy!
Yeah, agreed. And those two unfortunate guys spotting look as apprehensive as I’d feel about that situation.
OMG that looks like an accident waiting to happen.
:eek:
I would not let you do that at all if I had any say in the matter. Anyone with a smidgen of imagination can easily imagine at least five different ways you could hurt yourself.
I’M FILING SUITZ AGAINST YOU FOR NOT RESPONDING TO MY POST. Fuckin’ court room best have RAMPS!
Can somebody explain to me why Jamie doesn’t have his own teevee show yet? Those Kardashian girls can’t do pullups AND have legs (amirite?) so I don’t see how this could be.
Maybe you could write a pitch for A&E. It’s like Repo Men crossed with Intervention.
I hate to say it, because it is pretty cool that you’re able to do that (I sure can’t! Not even regular pullups!) but I totally agree with this. That looks way too dangerous at the height you’re at. Holy cow. I can’t blame the gym even a little for forbidding this!
I thought you were done posting about this?
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That actually sounds like an attempt to start a kind of board war, which is usually taken pretty seriously by the administration.
Jamie, I couldn’t see the video very well, but can I ask why you do the pullups with your chair instead of just raising your body up? Is it just for the extra weight?
Who cares?
I mean besides you and your little Facebook friends.
Let’s dial back the harshness a little bit, folks.
If you have a problem with another poster, you should know where to take it by now.
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Seriously Jaime, that looks all kinds of dangerous. If you lost your grip, you’d likely bounce once and end up on your side (or front/back). Also, if the wheels kicked out, I could see your head hitting the concrete as a very real possibility. There’s no way those spotters could catch you if you fell. In fact, it didn’t even look like they were planning on it.
It’s cool that you can do that, but I wouldn’t let you do it if I owned the gym and I had to pay the insurance premiums.
Missed the mod note.
It just confirms what I thought - lifting a moving, breathing person in their wheelchair is unsteady and awkward at best. All it would take is for you shifting your weight unexpectedly and one of those guys losing his grip, and you’re bouncing off the floor.
They may have volunteered to do it, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is an action outside the standard acceptable range of risk, and I fully understand why the gym owners were not comfortable with allowing you or your spotters to undertake it.