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One may not imagine that a quadriplegic can practice a team sport and compete at a high level, but that is the daily life for wheelchair rugby players. To play this game, created in Canada in 1976 by a group of wheelchair basketball players, you must have some function loss in at least three limbs and be ready for some heavy physical contact.
Quadriplegic: Quadriplegic a person who is permanently unable to move or feel both arms and both legs because of injury or illness. There are different levels of disability.
When it was created, wheelchair rugby was named murderball because of the extreme physical contact involved. That is, actually, one of the few similarities with actual rugby.
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Ground Rules: How to Play Murderball Wheelchair rugby is played with two teams of four players that can be of both genders. Matches are split in four quarters of eight minutes each; in case the score ends up tied, three-minute periods are added on. The ball used is a volleyball.
The goal is to carry the ball until a player crosses the end line – just like a regular rugby try. A player may have possession of the ball for ten seconds only. If a team doesn’t score a point in forty seconds, they lose possession.
Physical contact between chairs is permitted, but striking another player from behind is considered a foul, as is any form of direct physical contact.
Players use manual custom-made wheelchairs, equipped with front bumpers and wings that help their performances, in addition to spoke protectors and anti-tip devices. They also use personal equipment, like gloves and adhesives, to improve gripping, and straps to help maintain their sitting positions.
Murderball, the movie In 2005, American filmmakers Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro released Muderball, a documentary that helped make wheelchair rugby popular around the world. The movie was shot the previous year, focusing on the rivalry between the USA and Canada during the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 2004. The low-budget production received many positive reviews; it won a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Ryley Batt
THE HEROES
Australian wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt is 26 years old and was born without both legs. The sport is the reason why he decided to actually use a wheelchair for the first time – until he was 12, Ryley only moved around on a skateboard. Watching a demonstration at his school changed his life and, by the time he was 15, he became the youngest Paralympic athlete ever to play rugby. With the Australian Steelers (his country’s national team’s nickname), he won a silver medal in 2008, in Beijing, and a gold medal in 2012, in London. When he’s not playing with the Steelers, Ryley leads the New South Wales Gladiators.
Josie Pearson Pearson was the first woman to compete in wheelchair rugby for England at the Paralympic Games in 2008. She was born in Bristol, England, in 1986 and, as a child, competed as a show jumper (a competition where you have to jump obstacles riding a horse). At the age of 17, she got involved in a car accident and became paralyzed, but retained some movements in her arms.
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Unable to continue riding, she started competing as a wheelchair racer when she met a wheelchair rugby player that recommended the sport to her. She started to train and were accepted in the Cardiff Pirates, leaving her neuroscience studies at Cardiff University to play. In November 2006 was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
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