Quadriplegic wakeboarder ‘I’M GRATE FUL FOR MY ACCI DENT’
By his own admission, Brad Smeele was living life to the fullest. The professional wakeboarder and part-time model trained hard and partied hard. Then, in July 2014, he fell hard during a mid-air backflip stunt and suddenly he was a quadriplegic, unable to move or feel anything from the neck down.
Brad was 27 and understandably consumed by what he had lost. Fortunately, the Aucklander had his Pilates teacher and
