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Podcast: Blink of an Eye
Episode: #271 Adaptive, Creative, Whole: The Shape of Integration with Tony Schmiesing
Description: #271 Adaptive, Creative, Whole: The Shape of Integration with Tony Schmiesing
In this episode—the first in our final Season 5 chapter, “Living a Life of Integration”—we talk with Tony Schmiesing, a Newport Beach native whose life changed forever after a spinal cord injury in 1980. While diving off a jetty, he struck a hidden rock and became a C4–C5 quadriplegic.
Tony refused to let paralysis define him. Channeling his surf, skate, and ski roots, he reconnected with adaptive skiing through Disabled Sports USA and the High Fives Foundation. He became the first quadriplegic to conquer a superpipe...