Comments on: Aaron Fotheringham vs. Leeder O. Men

By: Kilwag

Kilwag — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:12:47 +0000

It looks like he appeared on TV sometime in December. Here's the Link,

By: colleen

colleen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:52:38 +0000

I was wondering if anyone knows how this kid is doing up to date. I work at a rehab hospital and was talking about his flip and was told that he had an accident and became quadraplegic. Hopefully this is just a rumor-anyone with any info-it would be appreciated so if it is just that-a rumor-I can squelch it now. Thanks Colleen

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:26:32 +0000

Okay who ever the DICK is that wrote

â€œYour comics stink I hate them. You think we are just product placement or some sick twisted way to make money off of the misery me and so many others go through. You should be ashamed of your self so should everyone elese who likes your comics. I hope you have to live in a wheelchair. Try spending your life in this sick twisted little chairâ€

can lick my swingers...I'm in a chair and think these cartoons are funny as hell and you need to quit feeling sorry for yourself and get over it. It's life stuff happens deal with it. Would it have made you feel better if a crip had drawn it up? If so your saying people in chairs arent equal...FYI I dont even use HC parking cause those of us who dont pitty ourselves dont want to be treated,talked to or anything differently.

PS Aaron your a hero to those of us who still want to do something with our lives!

By: John Lytle

John Lytle — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:19:45 +0000

Thanks for the observations. Wheelchair skateboarding was born on watercolor paper from the mind of this skateboarder some 20 years ago, that is a fact. Way more importantly though, is the reality that it did in fact happen as I had always hoped adn drawn. Leeder is more on the skate and create side, always was. Ignorant in many ways, to his “condition”. Look for more Heart-Warming Adventures of Leeder O. Men and the Naughty Nomads in the future. Thanks for your attention. Hats off to all participants of wheelchair skating. I hope Colours designs the proper chair for this activity. In my observation, the chair seems to be the weak link. Hands off and hands on is not going to cut it. As I see it, we need to see the hands and arms in charge of the full rotation of the wheel… Leeder had a chair many moons ago, called the Ramshackler. It had spindles at 90 degrees to the wheels, a sort of disengaging ratcheting system to steer, and propel the chair. I want to see tow-in action. But most of all, I want Aaron to meet Danny Way and jump his Mega Ramp. Then he can call Tony Hawk or something and join the Boom Boom Huck Throw Down and blow it wide open. Ha! I live partly on account to see where this all goes.

P.S. I don’t think you had it opposite of my original intent in terms of Leeder’s peronality. Some ideas are born of necessity. It was a combination of me being a skateboarder and exposure to some PWD’s. All in good ole 1987, many ironies earlier.

By: SKot

SKot — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:16:58 +0000

HELL YEAH!!!!!!

Definitely brings a smile to this jaded old man's face to see this kind of gutsy bravado.

Rock on, Aaron. You'll be an inspiration to many.

--SKot

By: buzzy

buzzy — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:21:43 +0000

yeah the wheelchair backflip, i filmed all of that footage. The footage has been sold to OLN, and i never got paid. win some lose some. Aaron is a good kid, he will go far.

By: Danimal

Danimal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:57:29 +0000

there’s another vid of Aaron , I think this might be the link to it, (the filters here at work block it so i cant check)

http://break.com/index/extremewheelchairriding.html

he takes some hard slams, tough kid.

By: Conahan

Conahan — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:43:31 +0000

Yeah! Naughty Nomads rules! I think I have one issue that you donâ€™t.