Very important things that people never realize until they are there. I was out in a manual chair for the first time in a store and became fatigued. My inexperience with control along with exhaustion caused me to fracture a finger in the spokes. Definitely practice before going somewhere you will need more control!
Another tipp for going up a hill : If there is enough space you can go zick-zack up the hill. Or try pulling instead of pushing (so you are turning backwards to the hill). I don't know why but sometimes I find it easier to pull up a hill than pushing it up.
I recently had to start using a wheelchair due to joint issues and I'm really glad I found this channel. Thank you for the videos they're a shoulder and wrist saver!
PageMonster all of mine have I’ve lived in 5 houses maybe it’s just your area my current house has 3 toilets we have the main one upstairs then the downstairs one and then an on-suite in the biggest bedroom my first house had a toilet downstairs upstairs and in our shed in our garden tho that was only used in an emergency cuz it wasn’t very nice
Thank you for doing this one!! :) I'm new at using a wheelchair, and I found it essential to have biking gloves. Mine have little grippies on the palm, which makes going down a hill easier. I am losing the feeling in my hands, so I am learning with gloves to prevent burns/blisters.
@2:50 gripping the tires as well, great advice as it is also easier on the wrists as well (but you’ll get the dirty hands and if you have long sleeves best to push or roll them up).
Popping a wheelie is one of the hardest things for me I still don't get it and I've been using a wheelchair for over 2 years but also my wheelchair wasn't fitted to my size because I got mine through State Insurance in the United States which was a headache and a half anyway so some of the things are a little bit more difficult for me
Dawn Keith doing wheelies might be dangerous for you since it sounds like your wheelchair doesn’t fit you right. I learned balance for a wheelie with a couch behind me. Also being in a ditch with a hill in front and in back of me helped learn balance.
Lisa TheCatDude I got the wheelchair because I have ehlers-danlos syndrome and my rheumatologist thought it would be safer for me because I faint a lot and I get hurt a lot since I've had the wheelchair thankfully I have to have no concussions and I haven't gotten as many bruises as I have before I'm still waiting for a home nurse to come in to have them help me learn wheelchair skills having State Insurance to not do much for me at all but it's the only thing I have
Wheelies are vey easy with a bit of practice. That being said they are not easy if your chair is not set up exactly perfect for you. Some chairs are not meant to wheelie. Also depending on your disability a wheelie may be impossible and dangerous. Work with a PT to determine what you and your chair are capable of. Happy wheeling!
Hey Gem, thanks for this new video! For I am not a fulltime wheelchairuser this is so important for me to learn! And I am going to work hard on that! Have a great Sunday! sincerely Britta
I've been looking forward to these topics because I'm going to be getting my first active user chair soon and I can't wait to start learning how to use it! I love the way you filmed and edited this video with clear the instructions, montages and slow motion :) x
Gotta love attempting to break concrete with the back of your head during a wheelie😂 I haven’t attempted going up curbs yet, our curbs are alittle taller. Going down curds is easy but a good way to mess you back up if you do it wrong. Wheelies have to be the best thing to do in a chair tbh, I do it to fuel my ADHD. Will you be including in the next video if there is one, going up and down more aggressive inclines and declines? Just a thought. Great video🤙🏼👍🏼
th-cam.com/video/oVHUbXRu7ko/w-d-xo.html is one of many videos to help you learn to handle it all! When you begin to train today what yesterday you felt impossible you begin to live again - a wonderful life! I'm so much happier now with my wheelz than bevore! Didn't know it were so much better than to try to walk and breaking down!
Thank you for this! I think it’s one of the more encouraging videos I’ve seen and you showed tips I hadn’t really heard before. I’ve been a part time user for 3 years and have been wanting to learn do to higher doorways like you showed because I hate getting out of my chair to get in and out of places. I definitely don’t trust myself to not have the wheelie bars off though so that’s something I have to practice first. And I’m pretty sure I’ve not been pushing effectively either so I’m excited to see the difference next time I’m out.
Now l 've empowered my wheelchair the person who brought it to me said: "You can't use it like the manual! You can't climba curv any more!" I was so sad and cried but needed my M 25 - wheels! It still is my wheelchair but power assisted wheels. So l trained and put a high loaded rucksack at the back. I found out that helped me to have the power to pust it up. So l needed for my soul that l could pust my casters high for a curb and: last not least it was a few days bevore l could master a tiny curb!!! Tadaa! If a tiny l'll now learn a bigger …and bigger…and a high one! I started with a belt lying on the ground at home in my living room.This is why l don't want a normal power chair: l can't train same way. Now l l trained a lot and l noticed the man who brought my wheelz didn't know it better! I invited him and now he knows that one can more than he thought and we will meet from t?me to time. To have anything doesn't meean you never can do things again and it doesn't mean you never will master things again! It depends on your try, your insult, your power and your strength. Try and don't give up. I only try that tomorrow l will be able what today l can't. Future will tell me and you how far it goes! But allways up, never down!
Change your center of gravity by moving your axles forward! It will make your chair tippier and its soooo much easier to do a wheelie. I can hold a wheelie indefinitely, rotate 360, propel forward, and roll down hills in a wheelie. Wheelie skills are so important. I find it easier to get across thick carpet, grass, and rocks/gravel if I propel myself in a wheelie. On another note, I was looking at different wheelchair brands for a bit of a project and found your chair: Motion Composites Veloce. You have a REALLY nice chair. Carbon fiber is so expensive though. Did you pay for it yourself?
Been in a wheelchair my whole life and still can’t do these. Occupational Therapists tried to teach me but I don’t have the muscles either in my arms or my back that they have so I was never going to get the hang of it. Plus my chair is huge and a tonne weight
Great video! Always be careful going down hills because you could catch a small bump which could start a small spasm which in turn may cause your leg to stretch out in front of you. If you don't slow down to catch it in time the spasm may go dead and your foot will plant and cause you to flip forward out if your chair. Lol I know this from experience. I'm not opposed to pushing with my hands on my tires. However, if you use caths you definitely need to carry some sani wipes of some type. Wheelies are the best friend to your mobility and make some of the impossible possible. If any of you want to feel like a fish out of water then you should try but not but Row Wheels. For fun once I (shouldn't have) wasted the sales persons time to try these things out. Lats just say that I should've video that experience. You all would fall from your wheelchairs with laughter.
I wish I could use a wheelchair like you do. I been in a wheelchair the past 3 years. But in chronic pain too. I would love to have a power wheelchair. But my husband says no and he says I will be able to walk again someday.
Thank you, some great tips for a novice like me. I need to learn to wheelie to get up kerbs. My chair has anti tip castors, do I need to take these off?
Gemma. Cha k you for this video and thank you for this earlier advice, it was invaluable and much appreciated. One suggestion would be tackling a hill that tips sideways also. As you know from our conversation, tackling that kind of hill just turned me into the road.
@@Wheelsnoheels that would be awesome. As I said in the showroom I tested the chair in, the ramp was perfect and diet try to tip me sideways lol. It's usually residential areas that have those awful paths.
@@Wheelsnoheels not by OT but they checked in the mobility shop. I wasn't measured. They were happy with most of the things. They had adjust the height of the footplates as my knees were not in line with my hips (think that's what they said, they had to power the footplates a little) also I needed I wider chair than the standard due to my big butt lol. So I think they made sure it was as best fit as possible given the circumstances and they I sister I move around the showroom to make sure I had the right movement when propelling.
@@Wheelsnoheels also this is for occasional use as when I can, I will use my mobility scooter. It's being used for days when I go to my disabled swim club, when my scooter has broken down (it's ancient and I'm saving for a new one, but it has to fold due to my tiny flat and having nowhere safe to store a full size) and when I stay with my friend in Cornwall as neither of us have the strength to get the scooter in her car due to both of our back and hip issues and my knees. I can't walk far without hitting huge issues. (It can take me up to 90 mins to walk with my sticks a distance that takes a normal person 10 mins to walk by which time my hands are blistered, bleeding and sore feom the crutches. After yesterday, I'm stuck in bed hardly able to move today.
Been using a chair intermittently since I was 11 and I'm now 40. Still struggle with pushing as my conditions gave deteriorated and muscle mass has decreased. Another good video would be fitness for your arms , to keep your muscle mass in check If you know what I mean.
I worry a lot when I have to go somewhere. Especially when it snows. My husband pushes me in my wheelchair and he’s got a bad knee and shoulder. I’m afraid he might slip or fall then me and the wheelchair will go down.
Im not in a wheel chair myself but I have friends but they don't drive so I can't ask them this... If u want to drive somewhere by yourself how do you get from the driving seat to get your wheel chair out the boot then in the wheel chair and the other what round. Can you do this? Or what's the solution? Love your video btw. Although I'm not in a wheel chair myself these are really useful and your such a nice bubbly character they always put a smile on my face😁💗
Awww thank you for watching, Im glad you enjoy my vids. You can search for "paraplegic transfer in and out of car." and videos will pop up that will show you how people who can't walk at all get their chairs in and out, or I know some people who use sticks to walk to the back of the car to get their chair out. There are also roof boxes (which I really want) that the wheelchair goes in. An electric arm comes and grabs the chair, and takes it up and down from the box. Pretty cool!!! xx
There are multiple vehicle set ups for wheelchair users. I can’t get a wheelchair out of a car, I’m also not tall enough to see everything I need to see when driving a car, so I drive a van with a lift, hand controls and a seat that goes up and down and swivels around so I can get out of the drivers seat. Other wheelchair users have “toppers” where I think the wheelchair attaches to a lift somehow and the wheelchair is lifted into an enclosure on top of the car.
Hi 😊 do you mind me asking how you get upstairs and downstairs at your house please? Or are you all on one floor... im trying to watch all your videos 😅 also it’s so cool that you live so close to me! (I’m guessing Brighton?) I live in Eastbourne 😊
Can't do wheelies as my legs have been permanently straight since I was six years old, due to a post-operative mistake. I can only briefly hop up kerbs. I go down them backwards. Pushing with tyres is really inefficient. It also causes unnecessary wear and tear.
Sarah Camley, that’s me too I’ve just set my tip wheels to catch me if I get too far back. Its tough because wheelies are useful but I can’t feel the balance point at all sadly.
Do you have any issues with your wheels skidding on steep slopes? I think my issue is because I have solid tyres or the tread's not good enough but I don't know if it's just a thing everyone has.
Gem good news with in 2 to 3 weeks I'm getting a midnight blueaero X TiLite utra Lite custom wheelchair and smart drive because my standard wheelchair is to small for me and I'm to big for it so my midnight blue aero X TiLite utra Lite custom wheelchair will make it easier for me to do wheelies I'm also getting a missioning belt and a wheelchair chest harness and removable full length desk arms on my midnight blue aero X TiLite utra Lite custom wheelchair gem how do I do wheelies in a wheelchair
It is a little scary. Do you have a therapist you can work with? I hope this video has helped. Practice indoors like I showed you, and maybe get some one to stand behind you to catch you. xx
Do not ever suggest anyone does a wheelie without someone to support them for the first few times. I find your videos not supportive to young people and very very condisending to adults. You are very patronising.
Very important things that people never realize until they are there. I was out in a manual chair for the first time in a store and became fatigued. My inexperience with control along with exhaustion caused me to fracture a finger in the spokes. Definitely practice before going somewhere you will need more control!
Ouch. Yeah Ive nearly lost a finger!!!!
Another tipp for going up a hill :
If there is enough space you can go zick-zack up the hill.
Or try pulling instead of pushing (so you are turning backwards to the hill).
I don't know why but sometimes I find it easier to pull up a hill than pushing it up.
It's nice to see that inclines are hard for everyone. As a curvy wheelchair user, I'm a tad self conscious.
I recently had to start using a wheelchair due to joint issues and I'm really glad I found this channel. Thank you for the videos they're a shoulder and wrist saver!
I could never go and visit friends for long ( when I had them) because most UK houses don't have a downstairs toilet.
PageMonster all of mine have I’ve lived in 5 houses maybe it’s just your area my current house has 3 toilets we have the main one upstairs then the downstairs one and then an on-suite in the biggest bedroom my first house had a toilet downstairs upstairs and in our shed in our garden tho that was only used in an emergency cuz it wasn’t very nice
Thank you for doing this one!! :) I'm new at using a wheelchair, and I found it essential to have biking gloves. Mine have little grippies on the palm, which makes going down a hill easier. I am losing the feeling in my hands, so I am learning with gloves to prevent burns/blisters.
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Oh yeah very good idea. I have bike glove too. The do come in "handy" xx
Bavarian Carvlog my vlog?
I have to use gloves, too, otherwise I get really bad hot spots.
@2:50 gripping the tires as well, great advice as it is also easier on the wrists as well (but you’ll get the dirty hands and if you have long sleeves best to push or roll them up).
Popping a wheelie is one of the hardest things for me I still don't get it and I've been using a wheelchair for over 2 years but also my wheelchair wasn't fitted to my size because I got mine through State Insurance in the United States which was a headache and a half anyway so some of the things are a little bit more difficult for me
Dawn Keith doing wheelies might be dangerous for you since it sounds like your wheelchair doesn’t fit you right. I learned balance for a wheelie with a couch behind me. Also being in a ditch with a hill in front and in back of me helped learn balance.
Lisa TheCatDude I got the wheelchair because I have ehlers-danlos syndrome and my rheumatologist thought it would be safer for me because I faint a lot and I get hurt a lot since I've had the wheelchair thankfully I have to have no concussions and I haven't gotten as many bruises as I have before I'm still waiting for a home nurse to come in to have them help me learn wheelchair skills having State Insurance to not do much for me at all but it's the only thing I have
Dawn Keith this is the video that made the most sense to me. I could wheelie like a pro after this. th-cam.com/video/fVe87DUHJXA/w-d-xo.html
I made this video just for you. Hope it helps. th-cam.com/video/IMi4FXGg380/w-d-xo.html
Really nice to see everyone helping you out here :)
Wheelies are vey easy with a bit of practice. That being said they are not easy if your chair is not set up exactly perfect for you. Some chairs are not meant to wheelie. Also depending on your disability a wheelie may be impossible and dangerous. Work with a PT to determine what you and your chair are capable of. Happy wheeling!
Yes!!!! Good advice. xx
Hey Gem, thanks for this new video! For I am not a fulltime wheelchairuser this is so important for me to learn!
And I am going to work hard on that!
Have a great Sunday! sincerely Britta
Thank you so much for this Gem! I’m fairly new to using a wheelchair so this was really helpful and came at a perfect time for me! You’re the best! 😊
I just got my first one Monday. I am trying to get used to it. :D
I've been looking forward to these topics because I'm going to be getting my first active user chair soon and I can't wait to start learning how to use it! I love the way you filmed and edited this video with clear the instructions, montages and slow motion :) x
Thank you so much. I love your attitude towards getting your new chair. x
Brilliant video Gem, looking forward to number 4.
Working on it as we speak!!! ;)
Gotta love attempting to break concrete with the back of your head during a wheelie😂 I haven’t attempted going up curbs yet, our curbs are alittle taller. Going down curds is easy but a good way to mess you back up if you do it wrong. Wheelies have to be the best thing to do in a chair tbh, I do it to fuel my ADHD. Will you be including in the next video if there is one, going up and down more aggressive inclines and declines? Just a thought. Great video🤙🏼👍🏼
Hmmmmm I hadn't thought of trying steeper hills. I might do. thanks for the suggestion. x
Yes please on bigger hill strategies :)
Yes please bigger hills or hills that tip sideways is a good idea too.
Yes please bigger hills or hills that tip sideways is a good idea too.
th-cam.com/video/oVHUbXRu7ko/w-d-xo.html is one of many videos to help you learn to handle it all! When you begin to train today what yesterday you felt impossible you begin to live again - a wonderful life! I'm so much happier now with my wheelz than bevore! Didn't know it were so much better than to try to walk and breaking down!
Thank you for this! I think it’s one of the more encouraging videos I’ve seen and you showed tips I hadn’t really heard before. I’ve been a part time user for 3 years and have been wanting to learn do to higher doorways like you showed because I hate getting out of my chair to get in and out of places. I definitely don’t trust myself to not have the wheelie bars off though so that’s something I have to practice first. And I’m pretty sure I’ve not been pushing effectively either so I’m excited to see the difference next time I’m out.
Im glad it was useful. Id love to know how you get on. xx
I can't pop a wheelie as I've fallen out backwards. Another useful video maybe wheeling in wet and damp weather.
You is the best 👍👍👍💖💖
Thank you for explaining. 🤞🏻
Now l 've empowered my wheelchair the person who brought it to me said: "You can't use it like the manual! You can't climba curv any more!" I was so sad and cried but needed my M 25 - wheels! It still is my wheelchair but power assisted wheels. So l trained and put a high loaded rucksack at the back. I found out that helped me to have the power to pust it up. So l needed for my soul that l could pust my casters high for a curb and: last not least it was a few days bevore l could master a tiny curb!!! Tadaa! If a tiny l'll now learn a bigger …and bigger…and a high one! I started with a belt lying on the ground at home in my living room.This is why l don't want a normal power chair: l can't train same way. Now l l trained a lot and l noticed the man who brought my wheelz didn't know it better! I invited him and now he knows that one can more than he thought and we will meet from t?me to time. To have anything doesn't meean you never can do things again and it doesn't mean you never will master things again! It depends on your try, your insult, your power and your strength. Try and don't give up. I only try that tomorrow l will be able what today l can't. Future will tell me and you how far it goes! But allways up, never down!
HELLO: From The U.S.A.
Change your center of gravity by moving your axles forward! It will make your chair tippier and its soooo much easier to do a wheelie. I can hold a wheelie indefinitely, rotate 360, propel forward, and roll down hills in a wheelie. Wheelie skills are so important. I find it easier to get across thick carpet, grass, and rocks/gravel if I propel myself in a wheelie.
On another note, I was looking at different wheelchair brands for a bit of a project and found your chair: Motion Composites Veloce. You have a REALLY nice chair. Carbon fiber is so expensive though. Did you pay for it yourself?
Wheely popping Queen!
Been in a wheelchair my whole life and still can’t do these. Occupational Therapists tried to teach me but I don’t have the muscles either in my arms or my back that they have so I was never going to get the hang of it. Plus my chair is huge and a tonne weight
Great video! Always be careful going down hills because you could catch a small bump which could start a small spasm which in turn may cause your leg to stretch out in front of you. If you don't slow down to catch it in time the spasm may go dead and your foot will plant and cause you to flip forward out if your chair.
Lol I know this from experience.
I'm not opposed to pushing with my hands on my tires. However, if you use caths you definitely need to carry some sani wipes of some type.
Wheelies are the best friend to your mobility and make some of the impossible possible.
If any of you want to feel like a fish out of water then you should try but not but Row Wheels. For fun once I (shouldn't have) wasted the sales persons time to try these things out. Lats just say that I should've video that experience. You all would fall from your wheelchairs with laughter.
Awesome video. Liked ☺️💕
I wish I could use a wheelchair like you do. I been in a wheelchair the past 3 years. But in chronic pain too. I would love to have a power wheelchair. But my husband says no and he says I will be able to walk again someday.
Thanks wheelsnoheels i jut awoke from a comma a month ago and paralyzed because my husband try to kill me and i am learning from your videos
My goodness me. Im send you lots of virtual support. xx
Thank you, some great tips for a novice like me. I need to learn to wheelie to get up kerbs. My chair has anti tip castors, do I need to take these off?
Gemma. Cha k you for this video and thank you for this earlier advice, it was invaluable and much appreciated.
One suggestion would be tackling a hill that tips sideways also. As you know from our conversation, tackling that kind of hill just turned me into the road.
If I can find a hill with a camber like you told me about Ill do a little vid. :)
@@Wheelsnoheels that would be awesome. As I said in the showroom I tested the chair in, the ramp was perfect and diet try to tip me sideways lol. It's usually residential areas that have those awful paths.
Just to double check, the chair has been adapted and adjusted properly for you? xx
@@Wheelsnoheels not by OT but they checked in the mobility shop. I wasn't measured. They were happy with most of the things. They had adjust the height of the footplates as my knees were not in line with my hips (think that's what they said, they had to power the footplates a little) also I needed I wider chair than the standard due to my big butt lol. So I think they made sure it was as best fit as possible given the circumstances and they I sister I move around the showroom to make sure I had the right movement when propelling.
@@Wheelsnoheels also this is for occasional use as when I can, I will use my mobility scooter. It's being used for days when I go to my disabled swim club, when my scooter has broken down (it's ancient and I'm saving for a new one, but it has to fold due to my tiny flat and having nowhere safe to store a full size) and when I stay with my friend in Cornwall as neither of us have the strength to get the scooter in her car due to both of our back and hip issues and my knees. I can't walk far without hitting huge issues. (It can take me up to 90 mins to walk with my sticks a distance that takes a normal person 10 mins to walk by which time my hands are blistered, bleeding and sore feom the crutches. After yesterday, I'm stuck in bed hardly able to move today.
i have both my legs in casts bc i had surgery and i wanna do some tricks hopefully i can do this lmao
Been using a chair intermittently since I was 11 and I'm now 40. Still struggle with pushing as my conditions gave deteriorated and muscle mass has decreased. Another good video would be fitness for your arms , to keep your muscle mass in check If you know what I mean.
How do you cope with North st in Brighton? I've nearly fallen out numerous times.
Any tips on not going into the road when going across a dropped curb
I worry a lot when I have to go somewhere. Especially when it snows. My husband pushes me in my wheelchair and he’s got a bad knee and shoulder. I’m afraid he might slip or fall then me and the wheelchair will go down.
Im not in a wheel chair myself but I have friends but they don't drive so I can't ask them this... If u want to drive somewhere by yourself how do you get from the driving seat to get your wheel chair out the boot then in the wheel chair and the other what round. Can you do this? Or what's the solution?
Love your video btw. Although I'm not in a wheel chair myself these are really useful and your such a nice bubbly character they always put a smile on my face😁💗
Awww thank you for watching, Im glad you enjoy my vids. You can search for "paraplegic transfer in and out of car." and videos will pop up that will show you how people who can't walk at all get their chairs in and out, or I know some people who use sticks to walk to the back of the car to get their chair out. There are also roof boxes (which I really want) that the wheelchair goes in. An electric arm comes and grabs the chair, and takes it up and down from the box. Pretty cool!!! xx
There are multiple vehicle set ups for wheelchair users. I can’t get a wheelchair out of a car, I’m also not tall enough to see everything I need to see when driving a car, so I drive a van with a lift, hand controls and a seat that goes up and down and swivels around so I can get out of the drivers seat. Other wheelchair users have “toppers” where I think the wheelchair attaches to a lift somehow and the wheelchair is lifted into an enclosure on top of the car.
Hi 😊 do you mind me asking how you get upstairs and downstairs at your house please? Or are you all on one floor... im trying to watch all your videos 😅 also it’s so cool that you live so close to me! (I’m guessing Brighton?) I live in Eastbourne 😊
Hey there. Yes Brighton!!!! I have a stair lift. :)
What should I do I’m living in Norway and the curb
Are pretty big and how do A get up the curb I am ♿️
Can't do wheelies as my legs have been permanently straight since I was six years old, due to a post-operative mistake. I can only briefly hop up kerbs. I go down them backwards. Pushing with tyres is really inefficient. It also causes unnecessary wear and tear.
I find pushing with the tires (just up hill) To be really effective. Gloves may help protect your hands.
I had to adjust my manual wheelchair so it now can't do wheelies as I have zero balance lol
Sarah Camley, that’s me too I’ve just set my tip wheels to catch me if I get too far back. Its tough because wheelies are useful but I can’t feel the balance point at all sadly.
Is it practice or upper body strength or both?
Do you have any issues with your wheels skidding on steep slopes? I think my issue is because I have solid tyres or the tread's not good enough but I don't know if it's just a thing everyone has.
Gem good news with in 2 to 3 weeks I'm getting a midnight blueaero X TiLite utra Lite custom wheelchair and smart drive because my standard wheelchair is to small for me and I'm to big for it so my midnight blue aero X TiLite utra Lite custom wheelchair will make it easier for me to do wheelies I'm also getting a missioning belt and a wheelchair chest harness and removable full length desk arms on my midnight blue aero X TiLite utra Lite custom wheelchair gem how do I do wheelies in a wheelchair
We're in the process of getting me a wheelchair...and I'm finding the idea of wheelies to be the scariest part :(
It is a little scary. Do you have a therapist you can work with? I hope this video has helped. Practice indoors like I showed you, and maybe get some one to stand behind you to catch you. xx
I can do bunny hops and wheelies
you must not try a wheelie without someone closely behind /holding onto your chair.
Do not ever suggest anyone does a wheelie without someone to support them for the first few times. I find your videos not supportive to young people and very very condisending to adults. You are very patronising.