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Patrick Laugerude
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wheelchair bodybuilder. Patrick Laugerude bodybuilding
About Me:
A mistake at birth left me with Cerebral Palsy, When I was born the doctor that was on duty that night didn't follow the x-rays that were in my mother's file and went ahead and did the procedure his own way. Instead of delivering me by C section he pulled me with forceps and just tossed me in one of those baskets and left me on the floor not breathing while he tried to stop my mother from bleeding. During the time I spent without oxygen I developed Cerebral Palsy.
I never said this before- my accident was attempted murder.
In the late 60's early 70's there was a team of doctors in Colorado Springs who didn't like minorities, Black, Hispanic, Asian and so when a woman of these nationalities would come in for a check up/ see if she was pregnant, they wouldn't tell her, instead they would abort the baby without the mother knowing and finish by giving the woman a hysterectomy to end people of color or mixed race being born.
Countless women have come up to my father with their story of what these doctors did to them.
One said the doctor told her "your kind have too many children anyway."
After my birth the doctors said to put me in a institution where I could die and they wouldn't be bothered with what they did to my mom and me. My parents did what many didn't, took me and raised me with help from my grandma, without them and faith I wouldn't be.
I started therapy when I was1 1/2 years old, trunk, abs, legs and neck, just so I could hold my head up and crawl.
I grew up with 80's movies; Conan, Rocky, Rambo, Arnold, etc. And every time I'd watch one I'd think to myself, "that's so cool, I want to look like that." When I was around 6 years old there was a T.V. show called The Incredible Hulk. I used to watch it every week and I found out that the actor who played the hulk had a handicap so I figured if he could get that big I could too, He's deaf, but I thought he use to be disabled as I was.
Then when I was 11 I saw Conan the Barbarian on its opening day and after that I always wanted to be a bodybuilder. I would go hit the weights after watching a movie. Also, in the 80's there were shows about the future, like "in 1988 world war III will begin and people will start eating each other movies. "Red Dawn" and "Road Warrior". I had the thought that I didn't want to be left behind, so I worked out. My junior high had a weight room and there I did leg presses and curls. I also bought muscle magazines and took weight gainers, Joe Weider tablets.
My brothers owned Tak Kwon Do studios and every time they closed one I'd
get the weights, rusty Weider plates, ankle weights and dumb bells. Not until
1984 did I really start wanting to get big. I had a huge setback with my hip
surgery in 1986; I had to start over, as soon as I
was out of the cast, I went into a K-Mart, I bought more ankle
weights and wore them on my wrist the summer of '86. In high school, working out made me feel better and stronger.
The high school had a weight room and my uncle owned a gym, so I worked out in both places
though out the rest of the 80's. My teachers and physical therapists had a
conference at the end of my 9th grade, I guess to see how I was doing in a main stream school/ classes.
Anyway, my old therapists said it was a bad idea for me to work out, that it would do
something to my Cerebral Palsy and she had no idea what she was talking
about. Now, studies show working out improves Cerebral Palsy.
How I started competing.
At first I thought maybe wheelchair Olympics might have something, then in the mid '90's, I was reading Muscle Mag and read of a disabled person looking to compete in bodybuilding. I see this picture of a guy from India, he's obviously handicapped but ripped and he's asking where he can compete. The guy/writer told him to contact Frank Dalto, I did the same and after 7 years I competed.
I was looking at shows/competitions in 2004 and seen the New Orleans one in July, it was March, in my mind I seen a road with a fork in it, one way to compete, the other not to, once I picked to compete, I stuck to it, no quitting. I try to learn something new at every show, diet, posing, just anything. One of the main things I try to do is open doors for many other disabled
people, e-mailing them back, showing them how to get into bodybuilding and
making wheelchair bodybuilding bigger and better, whatever I can do to help
someone better their lives. Lastly, for me is getting bigger and better every year and make the sport grow.
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United States
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Also on this channel is my wife Aiza ( I_ZA) Aiza is from Bicol, Philippines, born in 1988.
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ELVIS PRESLEY
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