A physician can prescribe one for you. If an individual's disability is too severe to make use of the above devices, a wheelchair runner allows for passive participation on hard-packed snow. Wheelchair runners were invented at a park system in Ottawa, Canada, and adapted from standard snowmobile steering skis. They offer competition in speed skating , which is accomplished through a variety of guide systems, including sighted guides, callers, audio cones or a combination of sighted guides and callers. Courses are laid out with bright cones.
Ice sledding Ice sledding is the seated equivalent of ice-skating .
It is usually done on a speed skating oval , propelled by picking sticks or shortened ski poles. As you might have guessed, most winter ice sports came from Norway via Canada. Sledge hockey was first played in Norway back in the 1960s. Legend has it that the sledges were designed by ice fishermen to get to their ice-houses on the lakes, and while waiting for their traps to trip, they would skate around on the sledges. This quickly led to games of sledge hockey and sledge races .