Who wants an Underdog?

Today we turned an Extreme Motus all-terrain wheelchair into a swing and did what we presume is the world’s first underdog while hanging from an abandoned train bridge in the middle of the desert in an all-terrain wheelchair. Someone call the Guinness Book of World Records.

What is an Underdog?

An underdog happens when you’re pushing a friend on the swingset and you push so hard you run right underneath them.

Statistically speaking it’s the most powerful and dangerous move that can be implemented on a playground. If anyone is going to be injured on a swingset there is a 95% chance it’s because someone underdogged them. It’s even been banned in some states.

One time in 4th grade I gave Peter Jay an underdog so powerful he almost landed on the roof of Brookside School. The roof would have been preferable to the tetherball court where he landed instead. Mr. J had been teaching us about gravity that morning and we wanted to test the theory.

As the playground filled with kids looked up at Peter flying through the air like Superman some started to believe he could fly. He couldn’t, and when he landed Peter broke both of his arms. He spent the rest of the school year with each arm in a cast and his arms stuck at a 90-degree angle from his body. None of us dared ask how he went to the bathroom in that getup. Peter eventually forgave me and we are still friends today, but he never let me give him an underdog again.

This experience weighed heavily on my mind as I prepared to give Sam the first underdog of his life. No one should have to wait 41 years like Sam but I also didn’t want him to get hurt.

We did our best to be safe and luckily none of us had to visit the school nurse. Sam enjoyed it so much that for a moment the chair became self-propelled when Sam laughed so hard he farted. This is the mark of a truly successful Extreme Motus Adventure. Our company is powered by Sam’s laugh and if we can get Sam laughing so hard he loses all control it’s a great day for everyone.