Gary van der Wege overcame nearly losing his leg to a motorcycle accident and went on to become a Paralympic seated fencer, a fencing coach, a fencing referee, and a motivational speaker.
This is the final video project completed for J302F Digital Storytelling at the University of Texas at Austin.
Video team: Francie Chang, Anna Daugherty and Molly Stier.
Video credits:
Highway – AWS Roadtrip – Entering Austin by AWS Cloud
Rain – Rain Fireworks by NatureAroundMe
Seated Fencing – Gary van der Wege – Wheelchair Fencing Demonstration 3/30/12 by Sean Claes