How To: Hop, Pop, and Jump (Part Three) 

hi mary alison, i broke my spinal cord at T12-L1 2 years ago and yours videos help me to start it up a new life !thank you very much and God bless you.

Wow!! You are so positive and inspiring. I so admire your independence and refusal to let a disability get you down. Thanks for making these!

These are some great videos you've put together Mary Allison. I have been in a wheelchair for most of my life and I still haven't gone down multiple steps but I use wheelies all the time.

Thank you for inspiring me, really great video's!!

Thanks so much for your video's I have learned how to hop with my chair thanks to you! I am also building up the nerve to try hoping down steps and thanks to your video I now have a better idea on how and to how to make doing wheelies easer thank you so much !!!!

Hop, Pop, and Jump was really well done. I have watched several other videos that were less so. The examples along with the narration/script were a good fit. Everything was very clearly explained.

Great series! 😊

Very helpful videos 👍👍

Hi Mary Allison. Thank you for these really helpful videos. I have cerebral palsy and for most of my life I rarely needed a chair. However in recent years that has changed and have been working on my chair skills. I'm getting there but due to the tendency for my legs to suddenly shoot forward when put under strain, hopping down curbs can get a little scary (as it can snap the chair backwards if my feet leave the foot rest). Anyway, long story short, these videos have made me think about moving the center of gravity of my chair forward a touch, so I get pop a wheelie without having to put so much pressure through my legs. Thank you, I think it'll really make a difference :)

I tried it once on training class and it worked pretty well but I´m scared of doing it on my own and since I´m living in Germany ( I am by the way) I always get reprimanded by watching ppl when I try to do so, which makes me even more insecure y.y. so there is no chance for me to practice how to use an escalator but I want to cause it´s adorable to have these skills! ^^

Great stuff, thanks!

Mary Allison.por que ya no hace mas de estos videos??

these videos are really impressive. i'm relatively new to my chair but i'm loving the extra freedom having it grants. however, the general inaccessibility of the world around me does put a dampener on that excitement. you've addressed lots of the forms this takes in your videos so i'm gonna try and master some of these skills and maybe gain a bit more independence. however, i live on a very steep hill and have chronic fatigue. most of the time if i'm wheeling myself it's only for short distances and that hill is a killer. it's completely impossible for me. i'm trying to move but that's going to be a long process. there are no ways around the hill. do you have any ideas?

All of these are great tips and they are things I too have learned over time. This is very well done series. However, having said all of that, while I do agree knowing how to ride a escalator is a good last resort option I would strongly recommend that it not be used as a primary option. Let's face it, the general public already is very uneasy seeing us out and about without help or supervision and when we risk things they feel are extremely dangerous they tend to become overwhelmed to the point that they freak out. When at all possible I use an elevator, curb cut, etc when I can. If I absolutely must then I do make use of my advanced skills. I have had friends who have thought it cool to use escalators as a primary way of getting around. One day a group of my friends where all riding an escalator together when suddenly it came to a complete stop with them half way up. No one knows why for sure but I believe it is because someone saw them and pushed the emergency stop to play a mean joke knowing they couldn't go anywhere. Needless to say security was called who were not happy about the incident at all. Also at other times these friends have told me of other times when security guards caught them doing so and gave them a "talking to" or stood in the way of them doing it again. Anyway...just my two cents...last resort options...

Is your chair the Topend crossfire T6 or the titanium?

I love the information, however, the flashing lights with the colors are an extreme seizure trigger. Is there any way to remove it for all the videos?

Hello, Mary, this is fantastic! Do you have exercises for people how have more than one disability? I can go just a few steps(no stairways) but need my wheely outside every minute. It's new for me! I love your videos and when l saw you full within life and sports l thaught: WoW, that's it, so it had to be at all places, wherever humans are! From both siedes! I can't move my shoulders well, do you know"frozen shoulders"? And l don't have much power in my muscles. I've got a bad fibromyalgia and my intervertebral discs are not well (11 of them). l live in Germany at the coast and it's windy and so many sidewalks are so crooked! I always have to please someone to come with me to help me through. Wannaechange that! I'm 55 and not 92! And a 92 y. old sould be able to "walk' alone if he/she wants! Please help me and all the others! Your intention behind the scenes is adorable and l wanna thank you so much!!! Whith help of your vidoes l now can put my casters up to ca 15 cm for a few seconds, l try to train more and more. Saw your videoes when l had my wheels just 3 days. Now it's a week and two days and l NEED your help! Tere are no trainees here, l've asked for in my health insurance - office. Thanhk you! With these videos l can manage the crisises that will come when l try to move and my chair will not do what l want and need it does! Yesterday l first time "mastered a corb of myself!!! Thank you so very, very much!

I hope the ADA is more use than British Anti-Discrimination laws.

That escalator thing is dangerous. You need the ones that are flat, not stepped.

Lucky husband.