{"id":6929,"date":"2012-02-09T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2012-02-09T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T04:45:10","slug":"josh-duek-sit-ski-backflip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/josh-duek-sit-ski-backflip\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Duek &#8211; Sit Ski Backflip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freeskier.com\/stories\/%E2%80%AAsalomon-freeski-tv-s5-e13-josh-dueck-lands-first-ever-sit-ski-backflip\"><img data-attachment-id=\"6930\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/josh-duek-sit-ski-backflip\/700_dueck\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?fit=700%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,394\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"700_DUECK\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?fit=270%2C151&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?fit=584%2C329&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?resize=584%2C328\" alt=\"\" title=\"700_DUECK\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?resize=270%2C151&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/700_DUECK.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xjUUf_sK84?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?&#038;v=4xjUUf_sK84#!\" target=\"_blank\">YouTubeUlar<\/a>] <\u2014 313,448\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\nBack in 2004, a flip on skis gone tragically wrong broke Josh Dueck&#8217;s back and left him as a T11 &#8212; full paraplegic. For the past 8 years one of his dreams has been to do a flip on snow again. On February 3, 2012, Josh became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a Sit Ski!<\/p>\n<p>Also, see Josh in the Documentary film, THE FREEDOM CHAIR<\/p>\n<p>WINNER Best Mountain Sports Film &#8211; Banff Mountain Film Festival 2011<br \/>\nWINNER Best International Short Documentary &#8211; All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival 2011<br \/>\nWINNER Best Family Film &#8211; 15 Minutes of Fame Film Festival (Florida) 2011<br \/>\nWINNER Best Short Film &#8211; X-Dance Film Festival (Utah) 2012<br \/>\nWINNER Best Documentary &#8211; Powder Magazine Video awards 2012<br \/>\nWINNER Best Documentary, Award of Merit &#8211; Best Shorts Competition 2012<\/p>\n<p>See the film trailer here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/28602757\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/28602757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the Salomon Freeski TV Freedom Chair webisode here:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/31721757\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/31721757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are hoping to have the full film available for download on iTunes soon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/freeskier.com\/stories\/%E2%80%AAsalomon-freeski-tv-s5-e13-josh-dueck-lands-first-ever-sit-ski-backflip\" target=\"_blank\">Freeskier Article<\/a>]<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k2FNNK2ggr0\" target=\"_blank\">Solomon Freeski TV S5 E05 &#8211; The Freedom Chair<\/a>] <\u2014 104,473\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[YouTubeUlar]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[618,60,1080,969,3,95,1831,1711,22,21,37,6],"tags":[2123,272,2121,387,2124,876,2996,2122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-1NL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}