After the accident, really hard times came for Carlos. He had to learn again, necessarily and overnight, to do the most essential and daily actions in a different way: washing up, getting dressed, going outside or shopping. The aid of his family encouraged him to move on but it was not after some time that he realized that only a positive attitude could help him to face his new condition.

He found in sport the motivation he needed to continue his personal struggle and day by day he began to do a lot of activities who forced him to be continually in motion. He started a training programme in different sporting disciplines, which such an intensity that he became an active figure in the national swim team. Furthermore, other sports, like skiing or rowing lead him to participate in many world competitions.

For some time now, Carlos plays on “Rangers Valencia” a basket team on wheelchair who competes in the Spanish league. But his last sports passion is adapted paddle tennis, a modality that he has introduced in our lands. 

As he rightly says “disability has turned my life into an adventure, in which everything is a continuous challenge and the only physical limits are in your mind”. Under this fighting spirit Carlos decided some years ago to start a solo trip with what he calls the “third wheel”, a supplement that hooked to his chair turns it into a special bike ridden with the strength of arms, which is technically named handbike.

Carlos is such a great lover of nature and bicycle touring that he has even gone alone on the Way of Saint James in 2013. But a year after he went on a much more incredible trip: he ride 2000 km with his hand bike from Valencia until reaching the heart of the Black Forest in Germany, after having crossed the Alps.

Carlos has been the founder of the first Spanish club of hand bikers, called «Tres Rodes» (Three Wheels) with which he organizes and supports group trips for people in wheelchairs.