Kyle Maynard, born with no arms or legs, persevered to become second in the state wrestling competition and the first amputee without any prosthetic limbs to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. This book, No Excuses, by Kyle Maynard is an autobiography of the fighter, who believed he could be equal to everyone else and strived to be. Kyle Maynard was born on March 24, 1986, in Georgia with a disease called congenital amputation. This disease causes birth without certain limbs but rarely caused children to have none of their four limbs at all. When he was born. His parents were scared and uncertain but learned to treat him normally. As time went by, other people began to treat him as a normal person too. When he finally made friends, they introduced him
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At first the coaches were hesitant to put him on, but on one lucky occasion, the coach placed him in the game and he blew them away with his intensity and his ability to tackle. After the season ended, CNN interviewed him spreading his fame all over the country. After football, his father started teaching him to wrestle. During his first year of wrestling, Kyle had a record of 0 wins, but he just kept pushing on. Many times in, he wanted to quit but his family convinced him to keep on trying. During 7th grade football season, he played less and less and totally quit after 8th grade, but he kept on wrestling. The training finally paid off, in the middle of his second year, he finally won a match making his record 1-35. After this, he started winning a lot more and the rest of his wrestling season became about even with the number of wins and losses. He qualified for regionals in second grade and happily went taking 2nd place. When he went into high school, his dream varsity spot was taken and he was forced to wait one more year. Motivated by his dream of varsity, Kyle practiced hard and it paid …show more content…
Even after reading his autobiography, I highly doubt that I understand. In this book, Kyle Maynard's shows how his disability prevents him from being equal to everyone else. It shows how he managed to overcome these problems through hard work and dedication and become the state wresting runner-up. Everybody always treats people with disorders, both mentally and physically differently from everyone else, but nobody actually understands the challenges that they actually go through. I actually know someone who has lost a limb; one of my friend’s uncle had lost an arm. He seemed to be able to go along a normal day fine; however, now I have realized the training and therapy he must have gone through to retain his ability to eat, drive, and hold certain objects the way he does today. In the book, No Excuses, Kyle welcomes everybody to his world where he shows the readers what life is actually like with no limbs and shows the dedication and determination Kyle Maynard has to have in order to be where he is today. Also, what I love about this book is the fact that he totally ignores all of the disadvantages he has and has now used them to his own advantage. Instead of hiding away and fearing the world from embarrassment, he shows himself with confident and because of that, he has become famous all around the United States and is now a public speaker who travels all around the country and a role model
At first the coaches were hesitant to put him on, but on one lucky occasion, the coach placed him in the game and he blew them away with his intensity and his ability to tackle. After the season ended, CNN interviewed him spreading his fame all over the country. After football, his father started teaching him to wrestle. During his first year of wrestling, Kyle had a record of 0 wins, but he just kept pushing on. Many times in, he wanted to quit but his family convinced him to keep on trying. During 7th grade football season, he played less and less and totally quit after 8th grade, but he kept on wrestling. The training finally paid off, in the middle of his second year, he finally won a match making his record 1-35. After this, he started winning a lot more and the rest of his wrestling season became about even with the number of wins and losses. He qualified for regionals in second grade and happily went taking 2nd place. When he went into high school, his dream varsity spot was taken and he was forced to wait one more year. Motivated by his dream of varsity, Kyle practiced hard and it paid …show more content…
Even after reading his autobiography, I highly doubt that I understand. In this book, Kyle Maynard's shows how his disability prevents him from being equal to everyone else. It shows how he managed to overcome these problems through hard work and dedication and become the state wresting runner-up. Everybody always treats people with disorders, both mentally and physically differently from everyone else, but nobody actually understands the challenges that they actually go through. I actually know someone who has lost a limb; one of my friend’s uncle had lost an arm. He seemed to be able to go along a normal day fine; however, now I have realized the training and therapy he must have gone through to retain his ability to eat, drive, and hold certain objects the way he does today. In the book, No Excuses, Kyle welcomes everybody to his world where he shows the readers what life is actually like with no limbs and shows the dedication and determination Kyle Maynard has to have in order to be where he is today. Also, what I love about this book is the fact that he totally ignores all of the disadvantages he has and has now used them to his own advantage. Instead of hiding away and fearing the world from embarrassment, he shows himself with confident and because of that, he has become famous all around the United States and is now a public speaker who travels all around the country and a role model