
A film by Eric Perlman & Mark Wellman
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“Don’t
give up, and never give in.
If you can’t ever loose, then you wouldn’t ever win.”
Mark Wellman
A
new breed of paraplegics and amputees crank up their mountain
bikes, race trucks, land sails, and big wall climbing gear in
a quest for new barriers to break. From Yosemite to Alaska, the
Colorado Rockies to the salt flats of Nevada…Today’s disabilities
revolution is measured in rotations per second.
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There
are more than fifty million disabled people in America. Everyone
works through challenging difficulties at some point in their
lives ….emotional, mental or physical. This is a movie that
deals with that side of life and delivers this simple message:
“Don’t give up, and never give in. If you can’t ever loose,
then you wouldn’t ever win.”
Even the music of this program features the power and inspiration
of the disabled experience. Despite being stricken with muscular
dystrophy, Rickie and Robbie Heisner formed a full time touring
and recording band, VAN GOGH. Their driving melodies and evocative
lyrics add depth and dimension the exploits of the disabled
athletes.
WHEELS OF FIRE is more than a great sports action movie.
It's pure motivation. Training, courage and innovative equipment
have taken Mark Wellman higher, faster and further into the
wilderness than most able-bodied people will ever go. The former
park ranger has become a national hero for his ascents of Yosemite's
El Capitan and Half Dome. He's been invited to address major
corporations, throw out opening day baseballs and meet with
two Presidents of the United States. But Wellman is more than
just a paraplegic climber with a national reputation, he's a
multi-sport athlete, driven to push his outermost limits.
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Using
the latest technology in materials and biomechanical concepts,
Wellman and other outdoor adventurers with disabilities have
developed and adapted custom equipment to challenge the mountains,
oceans and skies. Wellman and his "disabled" friends ski across
Alaska’s forbidding Ruth Glacier, mountain bike the Colorado
Rockies, climb Mt. Whitney, race land sailing machines across
the salt flats of Nevada, and blast the mud-pits of competition
off-road truck racing.
Paralyzed
from the waist down in a climbing accident, Wellman fought through
the pain and depression of loss, and turned his disability into
a driving motivation to overcome his obstacles. He doesn't just
cope with the difficulties of his life, he dominates them.
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Wellman
finds kindred spirits everywhere he goes. Skiing across the Alaskan
wilderness, he is joined by multi-sports athletes, Mike Crenshaw,
a leg amputee, and Willie Stuart, and arm amputee. Land sailing
across the Nevada desert is paraplegic, Joe Bohl, a champion racer
who didn’t become an athlete until after becoming disabled. Cranking
their mountain bikes across the Colorado Rockies, daredevils John
Davis, Sarah Will and multi-gold medal winner, Greg Mannino show
no regard for personal safety or gravity. Bashing his 800 horsepower
truck through the mud-choked racetracks of Middle America, paraplegic
Evan Evans battles the able-bodied head to head and beats them
all.
Wellman
and his friends do more than just push against physical obstacles.
They use their force of will to overcome what seems, the worst
that life has to offer. As Wellman says, "Wilderness adventure
took my legs. But what it gave back was far more important...the
sharp edge of risk, the power of teamwork, and a life full of
challenge and joy."
No
athlete ever achieves greatness without serious motivation. Wellman
and his friends use the demands of their disabilities to drive
them to the edge, past the pain and despair of loss to new levels
of triumph and joy. They have made adversity into an ally. As
Wellman says, "Everyone faces the world with different abilities
and disabilities. It takes passion and willpower to blow through
the barriers. Those are the WHEELS OF FIRE that move us
to the top.”
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