Paralympian Corey Peters: "Sit skiing gives me a sense of freedom" transcript

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Corey Peters, in a street, with cars going past holding bronze and silver Paralympic medals in his hands around his neck. The medal ribbons say Sochi 2014. The camera pans to a close-up view the two medals.  Braille script is on each medal. 

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My name is Corey Peters, I was born in Taranaki.                                           

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Camera pans to empty a wheel chair with a towel on the seat. You see the legs of a person in shorts and sports shoes and another in track plants sitting, are at the right of the frame. The screen changes to see Corey is sitting in his wheel chair in a red singlet talking to a male trainer in black shorts and top who is standing, both are in a gym setting. 

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I sustained a spinal cord injury back in September 2009.                                 

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The screen changes to shows a close-up of Corey in a white tee shirt, with large posters of women netball players in the background.  The next scene shows the back of Corey in his wheelchair heading towards a podium, a woman is standing on a stage next to the podium. There is a theatre style curtain and a power point screen in front of the curtain. 

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I was racing motocross up in Taupō and just overshot a jump and missed the landing and         

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The screen changes to show Corey on a stage in front of the power point screen facing the seated audience. The screen pans across the backs of the audience. Corey talking to the backs of the seated audience, and he is holding a power point remote

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landed out on the flats, compressing my L1 vertebrae.

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The screen shows Corey facing away from the audience indicating with his right hand/arm to the power pointy screen slides behind him. 

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Obviously, I found there were a lot of dark times going through my rehab.

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There is a close-up of Corey is the stage, he is looking at the power point screen. An obscured person sits to the left of the frame. 

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Learning that you were going to be in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. 

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The screen changes to show Corey on stage addressing and looking to the audiences, his hands are on his lap, he holds the remote.

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It can obviously be a negative thing.                               

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The screen changes back to show a close-up of Corey in a white tee shirt, with large posters of netball athletes in the background.

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The positive impact that sport has had on me is you gotta change that mindset and turn

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The screen shows a gym with an empty wheel chair. Then Corey is sitting in his wheelchair his trainer is to the side and Corey is lifting a weighted bar with his left arm.

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that negative into a positive.

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The screen shows Corey raising the weight up and down in his left hand.

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The sport for me, sit skiing gives me a sense of freedom.

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The screen shows a snow-covered mountain, the camera is looking up the slope to see a ski racing slalom layout, with red and blue flagged gates indicating the race pathway. Then we see a wheelchair skier with ski poles in each hand in the distance turning through the flagged gates down the slope.  

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Like I can leave the wheelchair at the bottom of the mountain.

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The screen shows a close-up of the wheelchair skier heading toward the camera, he skis past and heads off to down the slope.

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And there is no real limitations as to where I can and can't go on the mountain.

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The screen shows a close-up the wheelchair skier, he is face on and starting to turn between the race flags.

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I like the adrenaline-fuelled sort of sports.

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The screen shows a close-up side view of the wheelchair skier, he is up the mountain slope and skiing between the blue flags.

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I guess the more extreme sports.

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The wheelchair skier turns past a race flag and continues down the slope. In the distance you see the lower part of the mountain which is not covered in snow.

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Just to get that good rush, really.

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The next screen is in the gym, there are weights and gym equipment, you see a trainer bring a hand weight to Corey. Corey is in a red singlet.

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It's a pretty incredible feeling.

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Corey takes the hand weight, he is sitting on a bench, next he is lying on the bench and we see a close-up of Corey doing weighted press-ups with each hand. The trainer is crouching at the end of the bench behind Corey’s head, he is raising his arms in time with Corey doing his weighted press-ups.

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I guess if I was to talk to someone that was laid up in a hospital bed in the spinal unit,

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The screen shows a close-up of Corey doing weighted press ups on his back. The trainer is crouched behind him.

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I'd just assure them that there is a good life to be had.

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The next scene shows Corey on the padded mats kneeling on the floor of the gym, a trainer is crouched next to him. Corey is holding a round weight in each hand that rolls on the floor as he moves the weight back and forth, extending his body from a kneeling position to a straight position with his arms and the round weight being rolled in front of him.

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Although they might not think that at the time.

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The screen changes to Corey on the stage in from of the power point screen, holding the remote. A blue pull-up banner is on the right-hand side of Corey on the stage, it shows the ACC logo and images. There is a side view of one person in the audience. Corey is smiling facing the audience.

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Really it is just going to come back to your attitude and having a positive attitude towards it.

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The screen shows a close-up side of Corey on stage he has his hands on the wheels of his wheelchair, and he is smiling.

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The disabled sporting community is almost like a tight knit family.

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Corey is back in the gym in his red singlet, smiling to his trainer. There is gym equipment in the background.

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We've all been through life-changing ordeals and come out the other end and that's through

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This screen shows the text on the screen only

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Participating and competing within sport.

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Paralympics New Zealand and ACC logo come onscreen

Text saying 'Proudly supporting Paralympics New Zealand'.