Gadgetory

when I first saw the controller it was eye-opening I saw what it could do not just for me but for other people in the community of spinal cord injuries my name is Michael Luckett I am a US Army retired captain and I am the social media manager for warfighter engaged I know a lot of the vets that used to game and didn't game anymore and they just completely just quit and wouldn't this controller coming out from Microsoft an Xbox it's something I could use to prove them wrong I was in Iraq in 2010 to 2011 and we came back and I was injured in a motorcycle accident and it resulted in a c6 spinal cord injury lost the function in my hands I was already in a depressed state I couldn't even function on using the keys or using a trackpad or any of that but I was determined to play video games again and I went online on the YouTube and actually just typed in disabled gamer quadriplegic gamer and I started seeing these gamers finding ways to play video games whether it be with their face or just having it on their lap it was like if they can do it why can't I do it and then I started the journey it takes a little bit of setting up at most it departs 72 hours to get used to it with us as being adaptive gamers we adapt in different ways i co-pilot with a controller and a regular Xbox controller and it opened a lot of doors once I found out that I could game competitively again I was able to just apply that to everything else like this past Sunday actually did a Spartan Race I was physically challenging but I was already mentally tough that I was able to do it and just grind right through it