(13 Jan 2007)
1. Close-up Anesi 'Maverick" Tuufuli getting into mono-ski
2. Close-up Tuufuli putting on ski-gloves
3. UPSOUND: (English) Anesi 'Maverick" Tuufuli, US Army veteran:
"A fun day today."
4. Tracking shot of Tuufuli skiing down slope, helper holding guiding wires behind his chair
5. UPSOUND: (English) Anesi 'Maverick" Tuufuli, US Army veteran:
"(Reporter, off camera: You've been skiing how many days?) Three days right now. (Dave, Helper: Three days this week.) Three days this week. (Reporter, off camera: Last year?) Like a whole week, five days."
6. Various views Tuufuli going down half-pipe
7. Close-up snowboarders giving Tuufuli thumbs up sign
8. Tracking shot of Tuufuli going down moguls on slope
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anesi 'Maverick" Tuufuli, US Army veteran:
"It was kind of hard at first, then again I look back and you see other people had the same injuries as yours and that is just like wow, like an inspiration. It is like, OK I am not going to stop I am going to keep going. So, for some reason all this stuff I am doing exceeded so much my expectations."
10. Close-up skier sitting on a mono-ski
11. Wide view of ski lodge
12. Top view of disabled skiers
13. UPSOUND: (English) Kirk Bauer, Executive Director, Disabled Sports USA:
"Is that Rory down there?"
14. Close-up of Bauer's skis and missing leg
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kirk Bauer, Executive Director, Disabled Sports USA:
"We can get these guys, while they are in therapy, while they are still in the hospital up and skiing literally in one day. And what happens to them is they start to realise that they can be active, that they can live their dreams and it really turns their heads around. I know it did for me, I lost my leg in Vietnam 37 years ago and I went through the same experience then and it was sports that got me back into life again."
16. Close-up, pan Bauer getting off ski lift
17. Mid view veteran skier Brandon Dale being helped off ski lift
18. UPSOUND: (English) Matt Feeney, Co-founder and Programme Director, Adaptive Adventures and ski instructor:
"I want you to relax, I want you to get into it. So I want you to think about looking down the hill, keeping your head up and not looking at your ski tip."
19. Close-up Dale starting to ski unassisted
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matt Feeney, Co-founder and Programme Director, Adaptive Adventures and ski instructor:
"We are living with a disability. We're trying to face daily challenges every day in life and out here on the ski slopes and I think in some ways they can relate to that."
21. Pan view Feeney and assistant skiing towards Dale
22. UPSOUND: (English) Matt Feeney, Co-founder and Programme Director, Adaptive Adventures and ski instructor:
"He is doing awesome. He just needs to control his speed now. He is at the point where he is really moving."
23. Push in view of Dale falling down
24. Close-up Dale skiing and falling again
25. Wide view of Dale falling
26. Close-up Brandon Dale, skis
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brandon Dale, US Army veteran:
"It feels pretty good. My butt is hurting pretty bad because I fell three times. But other than that it feels good."
28. Wide view Dale skiing, falling
29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brandon Dale, US Army veteran:
"After you have been hurt you don't think you can do the same things so you try something different and the fear kind of subsides and you think you can accomplish things in life now that you have been hurt. (Reporter, off camera: How did you get hurt?) Oh, I was injured in Iraq. Roadside bomb, October 31st of last year and I have been doing pretty well."
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