A Curriculum for those who use Wheelchairs and Walkers |
Some existing commercially available
videos. |
The authors are to be commended for the
time and the thought and the other investments put into these
efforts. |
Choreographing sequences of movements
for people with a spectrum of limitations for those movements |
and still retaining most of the effects
of the original engineering is difficult enough. The usual
understated figure |
for human beings world-wide who
currently used wheelchairs or scooters is 80 million people. It
is unclear how many |
more would use a wheelchair if they had
access to one. The market, if such there is, for mobilo-typical
people is one |
hundred times larger, so it is scarcely
the case that producing a Chinese martial arts video for people
in wheelchairs will |
put the author and performer on the road
to fortune and glory. It is difficult to say how much awareness
there is |
among people in wheelchairs regarding
Tai Chi Chuan or any other of the Chinese martial arts. Even if
there is |
awareness how much time and money and
effort a student might be motivated to spend is not obvious. For
the curious, |
Wang Yu Fang (below) was a daughter of
Wang Xian Zhai, the founder of the martial art of Yi Quan. |
If any reader has a recommendation -
positive or negative - send it along, and kindly note if you
were the student |
(presumably with limited mobility) or a
teacher using the material or an observer such as a parent. |