Fotheringham flips over wheelchair ‘hard-core sitting’ craze
LAS VEGAS — It is a place that worships momentum and mocks inertia, craves acceleration and condemns lethargy. All angle and pitch, slope and slant, it is a place of dry pools and concrete runways, of mad ramps and half-pipes.
No one ever told Aaron Fotheringham it was a place he shouldn’t enter, or didn’t belong in. After all, he did the same things—spinning and rising, falling and crashing—every other skateboarder and BMX rider did.
Aaron Fotheringham had wheels.
His were just a little different than the others.
“People call it wheelchair skateboarding,” he says with a shake of the head, “and it’s like, oh man, it’s its own sport. It’s hard-core sitting.”
