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Murderball

amazon.comTonight I watched the ins­pi­ra­tio­nal docu­men­tary Mur­der­ball — a movie about qua­dri­ple­gics who play full-contact rugby. The Sports Guy does a much bet­ter job desc­ri­bing the movie than I could and I highly recom­mend the DVD.

Chris Pederick

4 years ago on January 24, 2006 5 comments

5 comments

  1. Nathan Smith says:
    January 26, 2006 at 11:34

    “…a movie about qua­dri­ple­gics who play full-contact rugby.”

    Qua­dri­ple­gics have no use of their arms or legs. I think you mean “paraplegics.”

  2. Chris Pederick says:
    January 26, 2006 at 12:39

    Nathan — Actually, they are qua­dri­ple­gics and the movie explains the com­mon mis­con­cep­tion that you, I and most peo­ple have that qua­dri­ple­gic means a per­son who has no use of their arms or legs.

    In actual fact qua­dri­ple­gia “cau­ses the vic­tim to lose total or par­tial use of the arms and legs” and the pla­yers in the movie have lost only par­tial use of their arms.

  3. Nathan Smith says:
    January 31, 2006 at 16:56

    Ah, touche! Thanks for the correc­tion on my correc­tion. :)

  4. Jerome Dahdah says:
    March 5, 2006 at 08:25

    I just watched it after rea­ding this a a while ago. Mur­der­ball is a great docu­men­tary, thanks for the tip!

  5. Amy Ricks says:
    March 24, 2006 at 14:34

    Just watched Mur­der­ball for a class assign­ment and thought it was awe­some. I’m doing research for a report about qua­dri­ple­gics now and stum­bled upon this web­site. Just wan­ted to note that this was a great movie and a real eye ope­ner for me and my per­cep­tion of quadriplegics

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