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Paralympian Tori Pendergast explains sit-skiing (APC)

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Video courtesy of the Australian Paralympic Committee

Tori Pendergast
Paralympic sit-skier

Sit-skiing is [censored] crazy

Sit-skiing is for anyone with lower limbs that are affected, it's usually people in a wheelchair or people like myself who have lower muscles so my hip down or they might have some ab movement, but not a lot, and the main difference could be like their set-up they might be a lot more forward than I am, or their back rest might be a lot higher to give them that extra bit of support.

This sit-ski is essentially just a frame attached to a giant bucket that I sit in to ski down the hill. And I then try and do myself up as tight as I can and then use my core and oblique muscles to control myself while skiing down the hill. It's got a giant motorbike shock which compresses in and out like your knee would, so comes in and out of the turn, and it also deals with I guess are all those
little bumps as well.

I also have these things called outriggers once I pull the string they come down like that so they're just there to give you a little
bit more direction. I probably go around 90-100km/h, I know the men can go faster so they probably go 100km/h plus in the
downhill or super-G events.

[TV commentator voice-overs] 109.5 kilometers an hour...

32 broken bones...

four years of training, and one goal.