Wyatt Won't Be Stopped

 Jumping requires functioning legs you say? Trampolines are no place for a wheelchair you say? Well you would be wrong and Wyatt Burggraff would know. In a recent viral video this courageous young man, who deals with the challenges of spina bifida visited a local gym and quite literally jumped on a trampoline. The gym is a TNT facility in Fargo North Dakota built and operated specifically for those with special needs.

Wyatt has been attending the fitness & gymnastics programs at TNT now for two years. At first he was very nervous and maybe even scared of the trampoline. But as you will witness he not only loves jumping on it now, he can be heard in the video shouting "Faster! Faster!" as if to say to Nate (the trainer) this needs to be even more thrilling, take it up a notch.

Director of TNT Kim Pladson remarked, "To just see how they have embraced the joy that we, almost at times take for granted because that's just who we are, that's who TNT is, and our community has been a great advocate of program." In other words wheelchairs on trampolines and kids with spina bifida flying into the air yelling "higher" or "faster" is just another day at the office for the director and the staff. Its all part of the job but as this now viral video indicates, not something any of us should dismiss as boring or ordinary. In fact, lets go out on a limb and call both the TNT programs and its participants, like Wyatt, quite extraordinary!