Ex-marine who lost his arm in Afghanistan gets superhero-like prosthetic - which allows him to lift up to 400 lbs - video Dailymotion

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An ex-marine who lost his arm in Afghanistan has got a custom superhero-like prosthetic replacement - which allows him to lift up to 400 lbs.  Cpl. Sebastian Guadalupe Gallegos, 32, came up with the idea of an aluminum and carbon-fiber arm after he broke 15 conventional prosthetic ones.  Sebastian had his friend George Schroeder, an engineer, manufacture the custom arm a year and half ago.  Now, Sebastian is able to box, lift weights and even care for his son better.

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01:20 So I got some questions about why I don't specifically

01:24 just isolate either one of my arms.

01:26 And I do.

01:28 But whenever you want to do two-arm movements,

01:29 like fighting or training with weapons and so on and so forth,

01:33 you really hinder, as an amputee, progression

01:39 in those kinds of movements when you don't strength

01:42 train with your prosthetic.

01:44 I've found personally.

01:46 And yeah, so if I want to get stronger

01:48 doing two-arm movements, I have to strength

01:50 train two-arm movements.

01:51 And it's something that hurts, but it's just a necessity.

01:55 I just wanted to make a video for the Marine Corps' birthday.

02:02 And I know I don't do too much hardcore stuff on here.

02:07 But just that ever since I was wounded,

02:12 if anything separated me from anybody else

02:14 is how hard I push myself to be able to do things

02:17 with two arms with whatever prosthetics I have.

02:20 Pushing prosthetics, advancing prosthetics

02:23 with all the obstacles I've faced and using them.

02:28 Being able to do things with two arms,

02:30 you don't get any medals for it.

02:32 And I kind of live by the ethos that medals don't matter,

02:38 because you don't get rewarded for having

02:41 the medal to face every day.

02:43 And that mentality comes from being instilled into me

02:49 by the Marines that raised me in the Marine Corps.

02:52 And so I just wanted to make a little happy birthday video

02:55 for 247 years of being the best fighting force in the world.

03:01 Happy birthday, Marines.

03:04 Raw.

03:07 So that's something that actually my whole life

03:11 is pretty much fixed around, is that--

03:16 I guess I didn't even really talk about that.

03:18 I don't work my flesh arm every time

03:21 I work my metal arm or my amputated side,

03:25 because, yeah, I get so much work on my other side

03:30 just from setting up the weights or putting on my belt

03:33 or putting on my arm.

03:35 Like, everything I do, it's very hard to avoid overuse

03:41 on my other side or imbalance.

03:43 So I just worked my arm yesterday, my metal arm.

03:49 And I only worked my metal arm.

03:51 I didn't even-- my flesh arm is so much stronger

03:57 with just moving the weights and setting up

04:00 and just having to make up for the fact

04:02 that I only have one arm that I'll have an arm day where

04:05 I only work the metal side with as many reps as possible.

04:10 And it still looks like I'm imbalanced.

04:12 But it's just because I have such a high amputation

04:14 that it's hard to get any activation.

04:16 So yeah, it is something that I work on,

04:19 but it's hard to avoid.

Ex-marine who lost his arm in Afghanistan gets superhero-like prosthetic - which allows him to lift up to 400 lbs

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