When the nominee Fabian made his way on a beach on the coast of Fohar in the North Sea for his first sailing text of the year, he did it in a wheelchair. She was accompanied by her coach Dirk Heckstate, who runs a surfing and sailing school on the small German island.
The two are well aware of each other, as Hückstadt started raising a few years ago when she was only.
First for coach
“Nomi was the first wheelchair user to use to take us to cradle,” Hückstädt told DW.
“At that time, we had no experience with wheelchair sailing, but we started it on the children’s catamran.”
Hückstädt and his team wondered how they could modify the vessel to meet the nominee’s physical needs, but he quickly proved them that people in wheelchairs could raise people without special equipment.
“We soon realized that she could slide from one side to the other side to the other side. And the Nomi could operate the sheet and the hull quite normally,” Hacustad recalled.
‘We find a way’
As long as a sailor can do this, there should be no major problem, explained about 52 years of gold, whose philosophy is not to rule anything as impossible as stages, without a attempt without it.
“If something comes to me, you want to do something, then we will find a way,” Heer said.
While Hückstadt had never seen a wheelchair user how to cradle earlier, the idea did not seem to him at all, because hey, he, wheelchair helps users to know how to do things like kite surf or drive a beach buggy.
The nomine is clearly in its element on the water. Before the training session began, Hückstadt asked him some questions as to what he learned about sailing so far, then he suggested a few last minute suggestions to him.
Aergenous
In a few minutes, later, Nomine efficiently steering the catamaran through small waves of the North Sea. Whether it is tacking or jibbing, Nomi has put every step down.
From her first lesson, she is never afraid of sailing alone, because, as she says, “North Sea is not deep and nothing is dangerous. Just porpoise … they only eat small fish and plankton.”
The nominee earned his sailing license at the age of eight.
“She said,” I can read now, so I can answer theoretical questions. And I can write, so I am going to get my sailing license now, “her mother, Andrea Fabian told DW.
“It makes me incredibly proud and is very happy to see what is possible despite the spinal cord injury,” he said.
“Back, we would never have thought that a wheelchair user search can develop freedom. It is very happy to see us so happy and so independent here.”
‘Great is that paralympics are present’
When asked about his biggest dream, the nominee does not have to think twice.
“I want to compete in paralympics at least once,” she said, without taking down her dream for the same event – or even specified the summer or winter games.
“I think it’s great that paralympics exist. You can show people that sports are also possible with disability,” he said.
“I want to help people feel strong and be able to do whatever they want.” The nominee, according to the nominee, is for all – including sailing.
Asked about his biggest success (till now), it is a no-grain.
“My biggest success is that I started the game,” she said. “I can do everything except for the run. I am proud of him.”
This article was the original published in German.
