Sports Activity
Fotheringham calls his activity ‘WCMX’. He is the first person to successfully perform a backflip in a wheelchair at the age of 14, and a double backflip at the age of 18. He performs many other tricks in his wheelchair including 180 degree 'aerials', one-wheeled spins and rail grinds. He plans to fuse the back flip with the 180 aerial into what is known as a ‘flair'.
In 2010 Aaron joined the Nitro Circus Live tour, an action sports road show that tours Australia, New Zealand Europe and the United States. On the tour Aaron performed on a fifty-foot ramp-to-ramp jump doing backflips, double backflip attempts and on February 9th, 2011 in New Zealand, the world's first wheelchair frontflip.
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