Adaptdefy Hacks

Tips, tricks and life hacks to help you adapt, defy and thrive, especially if you're a wheelchair user.

3 reasons you should master a wheelie in your wheelchair.

3 reasons you should master a wheelie in your wheelchair.

Mastering a wheelie as a wheelchair user is perhaps the most important skill you can learn. It has numerous practical, empowering, and freeing benefits. From boosting safety to challenging societal...

5 hacks to swim easier, safer and more independently as a paraplegic.

5 hacks to swim easier, safer and more independently as a paraplegic.

This seemed impossible the first time I tried. Transferring from a wheelchair to the ground, into a pool and then back out of the pool and into the wheelchair again as a paraplegic seemed impossibl...

Cold plunging for spinal cord injury recovery and resilience.

Cold plunging for spinal cord injury recovery and resilience.

Why Cold Plunge? Wheelchair users are used to discomfort, so why invite more into our lives?The answer lies in the power of voluntary hardship to fortify our mental and emotional resilience, prepar...

Samanta Bullock wearing a beautiful pink dress while wheeling her wheelchair on a fashion catwalk

Samanta Bullock - wheelchair fashion model.

Samanta is a wheelchair tennis champion, an inclusive fashion model, sought after speaker, and a health and wellbeing expert who is changing the way the world views inclusivity and wheelchair fashion.

Ira Edwards, wearing bright orange overalls, holidng prawns while sitting and leanign back on a boat with Alaskan mountains and sea in the background and grinning wildly.

Ira Edwards - wheelchair hunting and fishing wild man.

Alaskan born Ira Edwards has found creative ways to harvest the bounty from the land and sea despite having paraplegia and using a manual wheelchair. He’s also an adaptive skier, and created a bus...

Tanelle Bolt - paraplegic access and design consultant.

Tanelle Bolt - paraplegic access and design consultant.

Tanelle Bolt, who is paralyzed from the waist down (T6 paraplegia), hasn’t let the cost of adaptive equipment stop her from being rad again. She is the founder of the RAD society which she started ...

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