GRIT Freedom Chair Assembly & Review
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- čas přidán 4. 12. 2019
- See how the GRIT Freedom Chair goes together along with a review on how it works.
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Reasonable... well, for adaptive equipment. Truer words have never been spoken.
Everyone checking out the chair, but man....I’m here for the view. What a gorgeous location
Girl you are absolutely amazing, keep it up.
That looks great. I have never seen such a chair before
Great video Tanelle...you're the dudette!
Thanks for the demo! And very cool about free camping for you. I’m in Manitoba and am going to see if our provincial parks offer it! Happy camping 🏕🇨🇦
I see some negative comments and as a fellow GRIT user I say, don't knock it until you try it, as far as the 3k is concerned that's like shopping at the Dollar Store in the accessibility world. My everyday wheelchair was more then that, but I digress, great video. I am so jealous that is a beautiful landscape and camping is so fun. I can almost smell the campfires.Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Very brave lady I want to thank you you shoulder old man a lot today. Sorry about the accident but you’re sweet and showed like you say you showed me a lot today thank you again keep it up work hard and keep smiling
Awesome!
I just watched this and ai know this is an older video but thank you, My doctor just ordered one through the V.A. Just subbed too.
YAAASSSSS!!!!! I hope received it in time to play in the summer months
Totally different set of muscles then I would use in a typical chair. I'm thinking this would take a lot of practice before using in the wild.
Awesome chair. I want 1😀
I’m a c8 and you inspire me immensely young lady in the same vein as Rick Hansen , makes me proud to be Canadian
So grateful for coming across this incredibly kind and flattering comment. Thank you Marc
Thats looks like fun, i want one.
I love my grit chair
Good job
That’s a great chair....I wonder why so expensive though? $3000.....? I ask because I’m a metal fabricator by trade....id love to see equipment like that be made differently and far less costly.....but with no loss of quality, comfort or function. Love all your vids...!
Haha! This is the 'cheap' (economical) all terrain chair. RADs other one retails for $12,000.
That said, I am 100% with you on why this price tag is so great?!?!
Niche market, no buying power....so we bend over and take it
order from VIET NAM 300 USD your need my help let me know
Its expensive because its for disabled, we are a captive audience and have to be rich to get suitable equipment to live as normal a life as possible, even Wheelchairs are way too expensive put a Mobility tag on it and gives companies carte blanche to add the $$$ on the tag
Unfortunately, when you become disabled you see how horribly expensive everything is. Even simple plastic cup holders are around 40-50 bucks. They really like to take advantage of people who need this kind of equipment.
That's very cool
Did the tires come already aired up out of the box?
Is this a serious off road chair, or more of a tool to go in grass/gravel/sand? I’m trying to decide. I have a spartan wheel chariot. It’s fantastic off-road. I’d hate to spend quadruple the money and get something less capable
I wonder if the front wheel could be engineered to the back, to mitigate the wheelie.
the cool thing is even if the chain breaks the option to roll the wheel is still available
Keep using that thing and pretty soon you'll be able to bench press a cow ! You totally amaze me.
I noticed you didn't really endorse it or diss it ;-) but hey, we all got to see it in action (at least forward motion)
What kind of gloves do you use?
Hello,
I have some questions :)
If you compare the mountain trike vs grit freedom chair.
Witch would you recomend?
-Eas of use on and of road
-price wise is it worth spending the extra to have the mountain trike? I find both really expensive but ca´t find something similar in the same "cheap" price range.
Do u use one of those in daily life and if so do you favor one over the other?
Tnx :D
Personally [Tanelle]. I never use the GRIT, and I wish I had my own electric assist Mountain Trike. It is definitely the one that is used by the most people, the greatest variety of abilities and the most terrain. The only way I was able to access the snow and ice last winter.
Great video! I had a friend in high school with a T5 spinal cord injury and she always had a lot of leg spasms when transferring. Do you have spasms, and if so how do they ever hinder transfers? Thanks!
Amazing how much attention you have paid to the details! ;) I do have spasms, a lot more now than I did initially. And now to the point that they will kick me straight backwards out of the chair. That said... if I am patient enough to let the spasms subside then they do not affect transfers, and at times I find they will actually assist in the transfer motion. Truth is, it is different for everyone...so I hope this answers it for you.
Thanks for the info!
Are you taking medications for your spasms? My friend stopped taking baclofen because it made her so tired. She was willing to put up with slightly more spasms, but not feel tired all the time.
It sounds like her spasms are similar to yours. She could trigger the spasms that made her leg shoot straight out and she would use that as a trick to “kick” people, which made for some good laughs. :)
One last question: her big toe would move if she touched her foot just right. Does that also happen to you?
If you could do a video about spasms, and how the effect your transfers, and life, I would find it very interesting!
Thanks again for answering and sorry for the long post, I’ve just always been curious to see if others had similar experiences with their spasms.
Thanks!
Paras get ALL the kool toyz, I wish I was a para! Damn they are SO LUCKY!
Definitely need a better cushion 😂 and maybe some sort of wheel-assist? It looks great for a long straight path. 🥵
Is the seat height adjustable? Can it be set same height as your bed and commode ? Way way too expensive also... 😎
so what is the big difference between your chair and the that your showing us? I could be wrong but I think your chair that you transfer from could do the same thing
The chair that I transfer from has two small, shopping cart type wheels that get hung up on any small stone or threshold. Where the one wheel on the GRIT is less limiting on rougher surfaces.
So what are your thoughts on the Grit vs the Mt. Trike?
Honestly, for my level of function I prefer the Mountain Trike. I have a hard time using the GRIT without someone to spot me going over backwards. I am able to use my day chair in more places then I can comfortably get the GRIT.
You are so beautiful and I liked it when you said "the wind helps"...
Your an Awesome lady.
I don’t even take mine completely apart like that. That’s doing too much. I leave footplate and cushion on when loading/unloading.
No room in the vehicle to leave it assembled
the bar holding the front wheel should curve down to make it easier to lift the leg over it
I believe it is designed this way for maximum amount of ground clearance for getting over rough terrain
Hey I follow you on Instagram, I'm wondering if you still use this chair for outdoor use? Your always mountain biking with that special bike you have but wondering if you still use this.
Hey! Great question.
I never use this GRIT chair. It does not operate the way the Mountain Trike does. I am more comfortable in my everyday chair then with the GRIT.
Sounds really noisy! Other than that it's nice, but I think I prefer the Mountain Trike.
something tells me that by the time I got it assembled, I would be too tired to propel myself anywhere in it...
Why dont they make the front wheel big???
Not designed by a wheelchair user... but I don't actually know the answer
How fast does it go?
Downhill or up?
Both uphill or downhill?
How fast is the fastest you got it to go?
Looks like hard work to me, just put a free wheel on and off road tyres and will be easier in a manual chair!
The lmechanical levers would make a big difference
Looks like fun, but may need some practice using it. Have fun
Personally this looks like more work than needed and would wear you out pretty fast. Noticed you didn't even go far in it. Just snippets of video here and there. For 3k you can get a Firefly and zoom zoom off you go.
The Firefly won't have the traction on hills and uneven terrain that this chair does. It's an inherent weakness of the front-wheel drive designs.
3k? Rip off. It was designed off the Leveraged freedom chair, which is made out of cheap and globally accessible bicycle parts. The Leveraged freedom chair was designed to be accessible to low income users. 3k is an absolute exploitation, since the chair prints are available on Google and then all you have to do is go to a second hand bike store or a junk yard.
Sadly Leveraged arm wheelchairs are contraindicated for people with ehlers-danlos syndrome(what I have). So it's sad I can't get one because my arms struggle with rims
Whoever made this chair wasnt thinking.
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I looks awkward
You dont know what to do with anti tippers? You recycle those wastes of tubing just like the ones on a daily chair