Max Kulati, die gewilde rolstoel-liggaamsbouer van Kariega, is gevra om voortaan alle gestremde atlete te motiveer om aan sport deel te neem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het twee weke gelede \u2019n oproep van arbeidsterapie gekry en gevra of ek hiermee sal kan help. En net verlede week het my fisioterapeut, Leigh Herwels, my met dieselfde vraag gebel. Natuurlik sal ek ander probeer motiveer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDis vir my \u2019n groot eer dat ek gevra word om ander atlete te help en my kennis met hulle te deel. Dis iets waarna ek beslis uitsien,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kulati (36) word \u00e1l meer gewild in sy gemeenskap. Hy het onlangs ook \u2019n motiveringspraatjie vir gr. 12-leerlinge by die Ho\u00ebrskool Strelitzia gelewer en doen al meer gereeld toesprake vir veral matrikulante, sosiale geleenthede en by kerke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kulati, wat met \u2019n handvol Suid-Afrikaanse en internasionale titels spog, het egter ook \u2019n ander voorneme vir die jaar. Hy wil ook sy eie gimnasium by sy huis in die informele nedersettling, Moeggesukkel, begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sal soveel as moontlik jong mense aanmoedig om met gewigte te begin oefen. Ek wil my huis \u2019n huis van kampioene maak. Hulle kan selfs met gereelde hardloopwerk begin totdat hulle by \u2019n professionele gymnasium in die dorp kan uitkom,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy groot doelwit as w\u00eareldliggaamsboukampioen is om aan die Mnr. Olympia-kompetisie deel te neem. Dis die grootste en mees invloedryke kompetisie in die w\u00eareld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie Olympia sal altyd my droom bly totdat ek dit verwesenlik,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kulati het ook die eerste keer openhartig gesels oor hoe hy in \u2019n rolstoel beland het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNiemand ken die agtergrond nie, maar dis dalk tyd dat ek my storie vertel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het in 2014 by \u2019n slaghuis in die Baai gewerk. Dit was \u2019n Saterdag en ek het kort voor sluitingstyd gehardloop en op \u2019n nat vloer gegly. Dit was egter niks ernstig nie en ek het geen ongemak gevoel nie. Twee Donderdae later ek ek \u2019n snaakse gevoel in my bene gekry, maar het dit nie ernstig opgeneem nie omdat ek geglo het ek was net moeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToe ek die Vrydagoggend wakker word om werk toe te gaan het ek dieselfde gevoel in my bene gehad. Toe ek by die werk aankom het dinge ernstig begin raak met simptome van lighoofdigheid. Later kon ek nie meer staan nie \u2013 en dit op \u2019n besige dag toe ons met voorraadopname besig was,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kulati het toe sy werkgewer gevra of hy verskoon kon word omdat hy nie goed voel nie. Hy is toe aanges\u00ea om \u2019n dokter te gaan sien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie dokter het my \u2019n inspuiting gegee en ek is toe huis toe om te gaan slaap. Toe ek die volgende oggend wou opstaan kon ek glad nie loop nie. Ek is toe na die hospitaal geneem waar die dokter my meegedeel het dat hy \u2019n groeisel aan my ruggraat sien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is toe geopereer, maar daar was toe net vloeistof op die ruggraat wat hy gedreineer het. Sedertdien is ek in \u2019n rolstoel,\u201d s\u00ea Kulati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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