How to Do a Wheelchair Wheelie

Video Transcript

"KEVIN BARRETT: Okay guys, I found my friend here Mike on the side of the road. He's not doing too well, but I'm going to actually teach him how to do a wheelie in a wheelchair. Okay. Here is what we're going to do. You're going to want to friend, a good friend like me, helping you out. Okay. So we've got the wheelchair and he's learning how to do a wheelie right now. So, I'm going to need Mike to put his hands right on the wheel right like I showed you earlier. Now, we're ready to do a wheelie. Okay. Mike, you're going to have a special friend just like me. I'm actually going to actually help Mike up into a wheelie and I'm actually going to hold him there until he can kind of feel like how it feels to be in a wheelie motion. Now, to do a wheelie, we're just getting those front wheels off the ground, and we're going to be bouncing on the two big wheels. So, here we go. Mike, are you ready? And we're up just like that. Now, Mike is trying to figure out exactly where that sweet spot is to actually get going on the wheelie. Make sure your friend doesn't let go because Mike is going to be in trouble. So, once Mike feels comfortable, we'll let him go by himself, but I just really don't think there's any chance of that happening right now. So, this is exactly how we do a wheelie. So, now Mike is learning how to do a wheelie, the most important thing to remember about the wheelie, don't try and turn when you're in the wheelie state so you gotta make sure that you're moving both hands back and forth that the same time. If you start moving, you're going to fall forward, you're going to fall backward or something like that. But in order to even get up on the wheelie, you have to make sure that you really get a lot of force going forward and a lot of force going backwards at the same time, okay; otherwise, you're not actually going to be able to pop up into a wheelie. A common mistake here is a lot of people don't lean backwards far enough because they're scared actually to pop up into the wheelie, and they think they're going to go head over heels, right? So, make sure that you put a lot of force in there. Don't feel bad about falling, it's going to happen. You're wearing a helmet. It's okay. That's how you do a wheelie. Good job Mike."