KICKS 105 THE COUNTRY LEADER » skateboarding http://kicks105.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:14:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Watch Legless Skateboarder Italo Fernandes Romano Perform Amazing Moves [VIDEO] http://kicks105.com/legless-skateboarder-italo-fernandes-romano/ http://kicks105.com/legless-skateboarder-italo-fernandes-romano/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:02:55 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=46034 Skateboarder Italo Fernandes Romano can do all the tricks you typically see in a skateboarding video.

But the stunning difference between Romano and the countless other boarders with baggy pants and over-sized T-shirts who have recorded their moves on camera is that the 23-year old Brazilian has no legs, having lost them in a train accident as a teenager.

Watch this inspiring athlete below.

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While prepping for an episode about the workings of the adolescent mind, ‘Anderson’ producers allegedly asked a teenaged guest who was to appear on the show to “film the crazy stuff you do.” The kid then taped himself doing a skateboard stunt during which he fell and suffered severe head trauma, leaving him in a coma.

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