Now Aron Fahrni wants to rock the Para Snowboard World Championships

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When the terrible accident happened on New Year’s Day 2005, Aron Fahrni (24) was only six years old and did not really realize the serious limitations many adults around him predicted for his future life. Today he says: «I am not limited in everyday life at all. I’ll even say, the accident was great because it took me much further in many areas of life than if nothing had happened.”

The Bernese parasnowboarder, competing for medals in boardercross and dual-banked slalom this week at the World Championships in La Molina (March 9-17), is pure positivity on two legs.

Uni-Bachelor and top sport RS

Snow sports – a fateful passion for Fahrni. The Bern native is now a World Cup athlete and, as a sports science bachelor’s degree from the University of Bern, initially put everything on the snowboard map. In April he will also start with the top sport RS.

But his accident also happened in the snow. At home in Oberthal BE, next to my parental home, there is a rudimentary ski lift, a steel cable with a handhold. Fahrni’s jacket gets so caught up in the steel wire that it even pulls the boy around the pulley. “On the day of the accident, I wasn’t even in pain,” says Fahrni. But the diagnosis is cruel: all the nerves in the arm are torn, three main strands up to the spinal cord are irreparable.

For half a year they waited in vain for the arm to recover. In the years that followed, Fahrni underwent numerous surgeries, the last time a decade ago. With nerve and muscle transplants, feeling returns in the fingers, as well as a slight mobility in the arm and hand. Fahrni: “That was great progress.”

Fahrni teaches snowboarding and skiing

The handicap does not stop the Berner. He is an active person, kept romping with his two brothers and sister as a child. “I just had a lot of respect for this type of ski lift for a while.”

In the ski camp of group 8 he practices snowboarding for the first time. But when he became a ski instructor in Gstaad after high school, he started skiing with two skis. But during a J+S course while in college, Fahrni is back on his snowboard when national para-snowboard trainer Silvan Hofer discovers and approaches him.

“I didn’t call him until a year later,” Fahrni says with a laugh. A phone call with consequences. The ski and snowboard instructor from Lenk tastes top sport in a training camp of umbrella organization for disabled sports PluSport and almost immediately makes it to the 2022 Paralympic Games in Beijing. Now he is participating in the World Cup for the second time. “My goal? Go full throttle and inspire people with and without disabilities!”

Source : Blick