Vinod Thakur – Amputee Hip Hop Dancer

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My friends, today’s story is of great Indian double amputee hip hop dancer “Vinod Thakur”. Vinod Thakur proved that we don’t need legs to Dance. Vinod Thakur, 21yr old, shot to fame after performing on the television show India's Got Talent. He is a cell phone technician by profession and learned Hip Hop Dance through videos on internet.

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Vinod Thakur Born without legs, he quickly learnt how to walk on his hands at home in East Delhi. Kmata Chopra, his former schoolteacher, said: ‘He would move up the stairs faster than his classmates. From then, I knew that, through his hard work, he will make it big someday. And now the self-taught 21-year-old has shot to fame after performing on India’s Got Talent.

Vinod Thakur, a 21 year old cell phone technician from India. He does an amazing hip hop routine for "India's Got Talent" despite the fact that he started learning hip hop dancing 3 months prior to the show. The fact that he is a double leg amputee does not appear to stop him one bit.

A legless hip-hop dancer appearing on an Indian television reality show has become a rage with his swift dance moves and acrobatic skills. He performed in so many Dance shows and part of Simon Cowell's global empire – carries a top prize of £68,000.

Vinod Thakur said, ‘When I saw foreigners doing it on the internet, I asked myself, why can’t I?’ . ‘After watching me on TV, people have changed their opinion about me and are asking me to train their children.’ ‘I don’t have words to express my happiness. I wish him all the best and pray to God that he wins the show and helps his poor parents.’

‘I just couldn’t believe it when they said I was through,’ he said, after receiving a standing ovation from the three judges and audience. He said, ‘I have been getting a lot of support from my friends and family’. ‘They want me to make them proud and I will do my best.’

My friends see how Vinod Thakur changed his life from a normal man to a well known Hip Hop Dancer. Being a Double Amputee he never gives up and moved on in his life. His positive attitude, inner strength, strong mind, courage and passion towards hip hop dance made him a well known hip hop dancer. Be strong; be positive we can achieve what we want. I am here for you guys and I will keep updating relevant information, Real Stories and Details about Advance Technology Prosthetics for you. If you have any question or query and need my help on anything you can mail me at jas.singh474@gmail.com.

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Alan Oliveira – Fastest Amputee

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My friends, today’s story is of Alan Oliveira, Amputee Paralympian athlete. Alan Oliveira is the one whose both legs are amputated. He started his running from wooden prosthetics and now he is using carbon fibre blades. In London Paralympics 2012, Alan Oliveira had beaten Oscar Pistorius in 200m and won gold medal.

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Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T44 sprint events. Oliveira was born in Marabá, in the state of Pará. He had both legs amputated at the age of 21 days, after an intestinal infection led to septicemia. By the age of eight, he was competing in athletics. Oliveira began running with wooden prostheses, and started competing in races in Brazil at age 13. He began running on carbon-fibre blades at the age of 15, shortly before competing in his first Paralympics in Beijing.

Alan Oliveira smashed the world record for T43 200metres. The Brazilian, who famously took Oscar Pistorius’ T44 200m Paralympic title at London 2012 and was then criticised by the South African over the size of his blades, raced to victory at the IPC athletics world championships in Lyon. His time of 20.66seconds shattered Pistorius’ previous mark of 21.30 to land the world title, the first of his career, to add to his gold and silver medals from the London Paralympics.

Oliveira took Briton Jonnie Peacock’s T43 100m world best by running 10.77 in Berlin, taking 0.14sec off Peacock’s mark. He said: ‘I am really happy about my performance. I made a great start and then in the straight I saw on the giant screen that I was leading with a good distance I saw the seconds passing by and I realised I could break the world record. I hope I will do the same at the 100m.’

Alan Oliveira’s Achievements

Alan Oliveira
Medal record
Track and field (athletics)
Competitor for  Brazil
Paralympic Games
Silver	2008 Beijing	4x100m – T42-46
Gold	2012 London	200m – T44
IPC World Championships
Gold	2013 Lyon	100m – T43
Gold	2013 Lyon	200m – T43
Gold	2013 Lyon	400m – T44
Silver	2013 Lyon	4x100m – T42–T46

My friends see how Alan Oliveira started his life from wooden prosthetics to Carbon fibre blades. His strong mind, courage and passion made him Paralympian athlete. His positive attitude and inner strength made him to beat records. Be strong; be positive we can achieve what we want. I am here for you guys and I will keep updating relevant information, Real Stories and Details about Advance Technology Prosthetics for you. If you have any question or query and need my help on anything you can mail me at jas.singh474@gmail.com.

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Arnu Fourie – Amputee sprinter

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My friends, today’s story is of Arnu Fourie, Amputee sprinter. Arnu Fourie was just 18 years old when his dreams of playing rugby with South Africa’s famous Golden Lions were shattered in a devastating accident. It took some years to rebuild his life and sporting ambitions, but by 2008 his faith and determination took him all the way to the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Now a proud member of Team Össur, Arnu is a promising sprinter with plans aplenty.

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At the start of 2003, Arnu Fourie was gearing up to represent Grey College, Bloemfontein, as part of the first rugby side at the St John’s rugby festival in Johannesburg. A week before the event, he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in a warm-up game. Hugely disappointed, he underwent surgery and was left on the sideline for the remainder of the season, unable to play a single game for the team he had dreamt about for years.

While rehabilitation continued, Arnu was signed up by the Golden Lions Rugby Union in preparation for a rugby career which would kick off in 2004. But in October 2003, tragedy struck again. Arnu’s left leg was caught by a propeller in a boating accident, an injury which left doctors no option but to amputate below the knee.

For quite some time the very idea of competitive disability sports filled Arnu with a kind of revulsion. Arnu says, “I did not want to hear anything about it”. “People came to visit me in hospital and wanted to show me their stumps and prostheses; I would just look away and ask them to leave. It was the beginning of a whole new life for me, but I was not yet ready for it.”

The first turning point was when a friend, one of the school’s star rugby players, died in a motorcycle accident. Standing in front of the hospital praying for that friend, Arnu realized it could have been him, that his own accident could have been more serious. For the first time he felt he still had so much to live for, so much still to do, and so many people still to love.

Moving on he began studying at Stellenbosch. Still struggling to come to terms with things and the everyday practical issues of limb loss, Arnu insisted on wearing long jeans, no matter what the temperature. He competed in his first disabled sports event, the SA Disabled Golf Open. He says, “I won my division, but didn’t enjoy any part of competing with disabled people. They were talking so easily about what had happened to them and would make jokes about it. But I wasn’t ready yet for all of this. I had not made peace with what happened to me.”

With incredible support from his family and girlfriend and a growing faith, Arnu began to turn his life around. A new and positive outlook was reflected even in his clothes.  He says, “I began to wear shorts and, for the first time in the three years, I felt that I was happy with who I am.”

In September 2006, Arnu ran his first 100m race as a disabled athlete – he says it felt more like 400m. After months of hard work and perseverance, he qualified for his country’s Paralympic squad, going on to Beijing where he completed the 100m and 200m races. Today Arnu continues to train hard, improving all the time and living life to the full.

Arnu's Achievements

2013	South African National Championships for the Physically Disabled Gold medal for T44 100m (11.25 seconds) Gold medal for T44 200m (23.1 seconds)
2012	Paralympic Games, London, UK Gold medal for 4x100m WORLD RECORD Bronze medal for 100m 4th place in the 200m World record for 200m
2011	Belgacom Memorial Van Damme (Brussels Diamon League) Gold medal for 200m (22.76s)   IPC Athletics World Champhionships, New Zealand Gold medal for 4x100m relay 42:80 Championship Record Bronze medal for 200m 22:82 4th place for 100m 11:43
2009	"Curtain raiser" event to Golden League, Paris, France Gold medal for 100m

My friends see how Arnu made his mind strong and made his carrer in sports. His courage and passion made him a sprinter. Be positive and be happy with who we are. I am here for you guys and I will keep updating relevant information, Real Stories and Details about Advance Technology Prosthetics for you. If you have any question or query and need my help on anything you can mail me at jas.singh474@gmail.com.

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