This motivational dance video shows Dergin “Stix” Tokmak dancing on crutches. Although Tokmak’s mobility was impeded by the effects of polio disease, this determined dancer didn’t allow that to hold him back. He got back up, on crutches, and created a dance style that allowed him to express himself and have fun through physical movement. It just goes to show how awesome people are.<\/p>\n
Visit Dergin Tokmak’s website, Stixsteps<\/a>, or follow him on Facebook<\/a> for updates from this inspirational go-getter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This motivational dance video shows Dergin “Stix” Tokmak dancing on crutches. Although Tokmak’s mobility was impeded by the effects of polio disease, this determined dancer didn’t allow that to hold him back. He got back up, on crutches, and created a dance style that allowed him to express himself and have fun through physical movement. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,12],"tags":[93,176,184,224,249,278,383,388,438,472,491,545,559,668,720,772,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}