My Amazing Oscar

This is a dedication of acheivement for my amazing son Oscar who despite his profound disabilities lives life to the full. I wanted to share the magical and inspiring attitude of my young man, who has shown no matter what any profession or person tells you that you probably won't be able to take part or be included in regular hobbies and daily activites that we all take for granted, you have to try it for yourself and make your own decision. The proof here is that so far Oscar has not found many that he truly could not take part in , in some way or another, for example riding the Pirates of the Carribean ride at Walt Disney World Orlando, alligator seeing in the everglades, taking up Judo, swimming with dolphins, riding the quad bike up the stables and being one of 14,231 pirates who reclaimed the Guniess World Record in 2012.

Sunday 1 June 2014

MICKEY MOUSE LOVES OSCAR 2014



This was such a magical and wonderful experience for Oscar, before we meet Mickey, Oscar said he wanted to tell Mickey Mouse he loves him on his own, Oscar uses blinking and his own sign language to communicate, Oscar uses a double blink for very happy yes's and to respond back when we say we love you, while you are watching the video Oscar say I Love You to Mickey and Mickey stops for a second and then say's I love you too...

This was so emotional in a positive way as we had nothing to do with this, it is all Oscar and Mickey.  Oscar is so happy to have spoken to Mickey and for Mickey to have spoke to him, love the Magic of Disney.

SPOOK HILL WHERE YOUR CAR IS SPOOKLY PULLED UP HILL ON IT'S OWN OOOOOH !!!!



How cool is this, we drove over to Lake Wales Town in Florida to experience the spookyness of Soook Hill!  Legend has it that you drive your car or WHEELCHAIR in Oscar's case up to the white line painted on the road, place the car in neutral and the car will roll backwards up the slight hill ! WOW !!!



Oscar, daddy, Nan and Grandad after we had experienced Spook Hill.



 How excellent is this, we think Oscar may be the very first to do this in a wheelchair not like everyone else in a car !  Oscar things this was really really cool of him to do on his OWN !


Here we are being the crazy tourists doing Spook Hill !








Love finding these sort of things to do on our holidays with Oscar, they create great memories and are great fun to find and do away from the Disney Magic.

OSCAR AND DADDY DOING A HAND BRAKE TURN !


SCOTNEY CASTLE

Such a cool pair, Oscar and daddy having fun with hand brake turns skidding round the corners on the gravel path in the inspiring Victorian walled vegetable garden!


Wednesday 25 September 2013

LAST OF THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS POOL FUN DAY

 
Fantastic day we all had a great time in the pool, this summer has seen Iden grow in confidence and swim without his arm bands, the pool is 1.4m deep and he can not touch the bottom, but now Iden is swimming the length of the pool in the centre with full confidence of his ability.
 
This is lovely for us that is two boys swimming and two more to teach, all in a great relaxed and fun environment, with the promise of pizza's and ice-cream for tea...

 
Here I am, I love the summer, especially this gorgeous weather we have had, all us kids have had a blast and been wonderfully noisy...



 
The next boy to learn to swim, Alfie is only 3yrs old but so confident and doing great.


 
Whoa steady up Alfie, such a confident swimmer.


 
Fantastic.

 
This is Ewan my best friend doing what us boys do best, having fun!

 
Ewan wrestling my dad with judo moves...

JUDO YOKO-SHIHO-GATAME AND ESCAPE FROM KUZURE KESA-GATAME

Here I am learning the feeling of being dragged by my obi across the mats forward and back zigging and zagging.  This is so I get used to being moved firmly and unexpectedly.
 
 
Here I am learning the feeling of being thrown sideways left and right.  This helps me prepare for judo moves like Escape from Kuzure Kesa-gatame and Osoto-otoshi.


 
Practising the feeling of my chest pushing down, then I turnover into Yoko-shiho-gatame and pulling both grips towards me while pushing uke over and down onto their back.  Once I have my uke there I apply my own hold down, Yoko-shiho-gatame.
 

Tuesday 13 August 2013

HORSE SHOW AT CHIDDINGLY

Oscar went to support his best friend at his horse show, this is Ester the horse saying hello to Oscar.
 
 
Here Ester has been placed 4th in mountain and moorland in hand ridden, this is their first show together and wow well done girls.
 
 
Oscar's bestest friend Ewan on his new pony Ester at Chiddingly Horse Show, Ewan entered the handy pony class which was really cool, he had to ride Ester through flags and lines of bells, pick up small rings and place them on hooks, dismount and lead Ester through a horse trailer, mount up and then back up and grab a knights sword and strike three panels and finally pick up a flag and a Olympic torch and place them back in a small holder, he did fantastic.

 

Monday 12 August 2013

OOOPPS !!! OSCAR TOLD HIS JUDO TEACHER HE WAS BORED !!!!!!!

YOKO-SHIHO-GATAME
 
 
Oscar told his Judo teacher that he was bored, Brave Boy! ! !   Well he was truly put through some more advanced judo moves by his instructor in this lesson.  Oscar worked really really hard and concentrated on remembering the techniques for this move as next week his lessons as requested by Oscar have been pepped up !!!
 
 

YOKO-SHIHO-GATAME 4th MON
 
This move that Oscar is practising is Escape from Yoko-shiho-gatame.  I am the Tori holding down my uke, to escape the uke will try to bridge and roll, I grab the back of my uke's jacket and had to push up with my legs and then try to grab the inside of their leg, then we keep rolling over, using our legs for power and my hands for controlling, my uke should end up on top of me holding me down.
 
 
1st stage I kneeled at my partner's side and placed one arm around their neck, my other arm gripped through the legs and onto the belt.

 
 My uke, (daddy) is trying to escape by pushing his torso up like a bridge and rolling over using his legs for power, while controlling me with his hands.
 
 
Here uke has escaped from yoko-shiho-gatame and ended up on top of me holding me down.