Watch our latest film telling the story of the Amazing Lyn Levitt. We asked her to compose the music for Imparables and after we got to know her we felt we had to share her story. She is a proud member of The British Paraorchestra. I hope you enjoy the film.
We have just released our latest video, featuring Juanjo and Bernat.
This short film follows one of our main characters, Juanjo Méndez, on his victorious day at the Spanish Cycling Championships in Majorca this year, which was just one step in his journey to the 2012 London Paralympics.
We also get to know [...]
This is the amazing story of twin brothers Jubal and Guillem. Jubal had his leg amputated shortly after birth. Their mother met Juanjo Mendez who Invited them to the Velodrome.
Just a few years later, they are both on their way to becoming BMX champions. This is a moving story about overcoming obstacles [...]
Paco, a member of the Genesis cycling club in Barcelona, had a massive surprise the day he turned up at the Velodrome and found his hero Miguel Indurain there to greet him. (thanks Miguel)
Unfortunately shortly after the visit, Paco lost his battle with Cancer. He had managed to survive longer than the doctors [...]
Our latest video is very special: our Pirates received an unexpected visit by Miguel Indurain, winner of the Tour de France five consecutive times, who spent the day with our protagonists.
We hope you like it.
And, please, if you can keep donating and spreading our Kickstarter campaign. There are just two weeks [...]
Now the Paralympics are sadly over and while we edit our trailer including footage from the Games we have decided to launch our fourth video, “A Cadet’s Life”. A very different film from the previous three, “A Cadet’s Life” tells the story of Joaquim Rodríguez, the 88yo Pirate affectionately called “The Cadet”. It is [...]
Elisa is the newest girl in the team. As she tells us in this video, her journey to becoming one of the “Pirates” began a day she was stuck in traffic in a car with a friend, feeling a little down about life, and spotted Juanjo cycling along the road, racing past them. She [...]
On this video we introduce many of our main characters: Juanjo, Bernat, Raquel… It has been watched by more than 100,000 people so far.
Find out why!
We reach the end of 2013. It has been an incredible year and we are ending it with an incredible story: Alessandro (Alex) Zanardi.
Hero, icon, legend, and inspiration are just a handful of superlatives one can bestow on Alex Zanardi, the two-time CART champion and more recently, Paralympic Gold Medallist in London 2012.
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This is Richie Parker. He’s a number of things: car enthusiast, engineer, employee, son. He’s a normal guy for his age, working a job in a field he loves. Oh, he also happens to have no arms.
After watching the video below (bottom of the post) from ESPN, we can’t help but think [...]
Our Unstoppable of the month for October is James Simpson. We are inspired by his recent competition in the Spartan Race (8th September 2013) where he became the first double amputee to compete at the event.
Lance Bombardier James Simpson lost his limbs after he stepped on an explosive device in Afghanistan in 2009.
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We are happy to introduce you to our new Unstoppable: Ade Adepitan!
Ade Adepitan MBE (born 27 March 1973) is a British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player. He uses a wheelchair as a result of contracting polio as a child which led to the loss of use of his left leg.
Adepitan was [...]
We now have a new Unstoppable for August: Nobuyuki Tsujii.
A bit about him: Nobuyuki was born blind but with a talent for music. At the age of two, he began to play “Do Re Mi” on a toy piano after his mother had been humming the tune. He began his formal study of [...]
Have a look at Bone-shakers latest magazine – do you recognise our film?
We are proud to introduce our two (or three!) Unstoppables of the month for July: Richard Van As, Ivan Owen and 5yo Liam Dippenaar.
This is their amazing story:
Richard Van As was working in his home near Johannesburg, South Africa, in May of 2011, when he lost control of his table saw.
The [...]
South Korea’s first blind news presenter, who reads Braille on air, hopes to inspire those living with disabilities.
Lee Chang-hoon is legally blind and a newsreader for South Korea’s biggest broadcaster KBS.The 27-year-old, the world’s first blind news anchor, uses a Braille instrument to read the news. Now seven months into the job, Lee [...]
Lyn Levett is our new Unstoppable, and deservedly so. A central member of the Paraorchestra (an orchestra formed by people with various degrees of disability), which performed during the 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony, hers is an inspiring story that we found particularly outstanding.
As her profile on the Paraorchestra website says, it all began [...]
