Pretty Cool...

I read about this kid in the Charlotte Observer this morning…

Teen pioneers `extreme sitting' sport
LAS VEGAS - It's easy to spot Aaron Fotheringham spinning and hesitating atop the rim of a half-pipe at the neighborhood skate park.
He's the one in the wheelchair, the one with the bright yellow helmet, the one who does a back flip that has made him a celebrity.
His friends slap him high-fives as they pass on their BMX bikes and skateboards. They call him "Wheels."
Adults call Fotheringham, 15, a pioneer carving a niche somewhere between BMX and skateboarding.
Fotheringham just calls it "hard-core sitting."
He was born with spina bifida, a defect of the neural tubes that affects more than 70,000 people in the United States.
He uses a custom wheelchair with welded braces, joints and crossbeams to take a pounding, a scrape bar, shock absorbers and independent four-wheel suspension, and soldered spokes on modified 26-inch downhill mountain bike wheels.
"He's constantly needing things in equipment," says John Box, president of Colours 'N Motion Inc., which provides the chairs.
Fotheringham tips over a lot. But he pulls himself up. No apologies. He jokes about starting a wheelchair company called "Crazy Cripple Industries."
"It just takes a lot of trials and errors," he says.

Check out a video of him in action, including his backflip!