Former paramedic flips tractor tire up Blackcomb Mountain for PTSD awareness

By Yuliya Talmazan Online News Producer  Global News A former paramedic is flipping a 400-pound tractor tire through waist-deep snow up a mountain while shackled in 60 pounds of steel chains for a cause that’s very close to his heart. Forty-five-year-old Terrance Kosikar and a team of his two friends from Australia and Romania have been on their […]

Post-traumatic stress survivor launches book and tour

Original article published Jan 3, 2017 – Jennifer Thuncher / Squamish Chief Though it has been almost seven years, Terrance Kosikar’s voice still fills with emotion when he recalls the tragedy. Kosikar, 43, was a first responder at the Whistler Sliding Centre when Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili fatally crashed during a training run on the […]

WARRANTS FOR MY ARREST? Tribal police flips tire to help raise awareness to PTSD

After hours of intense interrogation, by Constable Leonard Isaac, of the Tribal Police Stl’Atl’Imx, Mr.Terrance Joseph Kosikar refused to testify and is protected under s. 13 of the Charter from having any incriminating statements “used to incriminate himself in any proceedings against him at this time. Kosikar says, “It’s not very often you see many […]

PRESS RELEASE – PTSD AWARENESS – FIRST STEP HOPE

JULY 23 – 24th (11 am start)  ENGLISH BAY –  FIRST STEP HOPE FORMER BC FIRST RESPONDER RAISING AWARENESS TO PTSD by flipping a 400 pound tractor tire several kilometres while shackled in over 50 pounds of solid steel chain. On July 23rd- 24th,Terrance Joseph Kosikar will be flipping his tire in English Bay and […]

With Respect to The Kumaritashvili Family and In Memory of Nodar Kumaritashvili

Chapter 1: When the dark night Delivers the day Opening day of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Trust me when I say, I know this was very sad and heartbreaking video to watch, I have had to live with this hurt, loss and feeling for 6 long years. Yes, even still to this day I teared […]