How Do You Breakdance When You Can Barely Use Your Legs?

Show notes

Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli has built a career blowing people’s minds on the dance floor. He also gets congratulated for returning a shopping cart. Sometimes, he’d really appreciate a little help with the damn cart.

Born with arthrogryposis, which affects his legs, feet, and shoulders, Luca developed his own style of breaking and founded ILL-Abilities, an international crew of dancers with disabilities. He joins Jeremie and Brian to talk about the surgery that made skateboarding painful, the friends who helped him find dance, and a first battle that took the “breaking” part a little too literally.

Luca also gets into the cost of constantly proving himself: refusing assistance, pushing through pain, and feeling pressure to maintain the inspirational image people have of him. Now a father of two, including a daughter who shares his disability, he’s figuring out how rest and asking for help fit into his “No Excuses, No Limits” philosophy.

Explore Luca’s work - lucapatuelli.com/and ILL-Abilities - illabilities.com

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