My daughter, Shannon, had to read the book 'No Excuses' as part of her summer reading assignment for 9th grade English starting later this year. In the book the author, Kyle, talks about how he played football and wrestled while having no arms or legs. I was kind of confused at how you could grapple with no arms at all - but it turns out he has upper arms. I'm not pointing that out to diminish his accomplishment; it's amazing. You can see a photo of him wrestling here. Pretty bad-ass isn't it?

I was pretty awed by this guy. Then, today, my awe kind of got kicked up a notch (no pun intended). How could I be more awed? Well, today I learned about another armless man, Daniel Potts, who is a drummer. I knew people could do some incredible stuff with their feet before but Daniel showed me how incredibly agile someone can be with just their toes. This first video will show you his "stick trick".

Pretty awesome isn't it? He spins that stick super fast and always has perfect control of it. I was even more impressed by the casual way he tosses the stick up and catches it.

Here he is playing a cover; it's his most recent video (as of this posting) and is about the only way I would have ever embedded Britney Spears in my blog; at around 2:07 in the video in incorporates the stick toss trick.

I don't know anything about drumming - but clearly he is pretty good at it. NOTE: there is no bass drum even if you hear it. The bass drum is part of the original source track that he is accompanying. So far he hasn't been able to figure out a good solution for accessing a bass drum while he plays. However, some folks on reddit have been sharing some ideas. If you have a good idea jump in the fray and share it.