One boy won’t let his chair put a spoke in his wheels.
A video of a boy shredding the bowl at a Sacramento, California, skate park with a little help from Dad is going viral.
After just one viewing, you can totally understand why. The look of pure joy on 8-year-old Atticus Edmunds’ face is enough to make anyone smile.
"That was great!" he gleefully cried as his dad, Jared Edmunds, pushes him up and down ramps. "That was fantastic! That was crazy!"
Tresa Edmunds, Atticus’ mom, who blogs about her family, their health issues and creative solutions at ReeseDixon.com, is the one who recorded and uploaded the video to her YouTube channel. She says she is absolutely delighted that the video has gone viral.
“It's so exciting for me, because as his mom -- as his advocate -- my goal is to make room in the world for him and to get people to see him as a kid first and the chair second," she told CBS Sacramento.
Buzzfeed reports that when Tresa was pregnant with Atticus, she developed a complication called HELLP syndrome, which led her to an early birth at just 27 weeks. Due to the early delivery, Atticus weighed only 2 pounds and 3 ounces when he was born. He soon developed cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that limits muscle strength and coordination, and he needs a wheelchair to get around.
Despite Atticus’ love of singing Katy Perry songs on YouTube, the condition has made Atticus a boy of few words. So, he like to gets his thrills in another way.
"There has never been a roller coaster too fast or a swing too high for Atticus," Jared told Today.com. "He can be a little daredevil when he wants to be."
So, when the family caught wind of another rad dad who pushed his son in a wheelchair through a skate park, they "dropped everything and loaded up the car," Jared told Today.com.
After Atticus’ first romp on the ramps in early January, he was hooked. The family has been visiting the skate park ever since. So much so, that Tresa told CBS that she has since gotten her son some skating gear, including