Adaptive Sports & Recreation: Past, Present, & Future
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that 1 out of 5 people in the United States have a disability? 20 percent. And that is just one of the reasons why those of us who love and care about outdoor recreation really ought to know about all that is happening in the world of adaptive sports.
So to get an overview of the past, present, and future of adaptive sports and recreation, we sat down with Chris Read and Betty Philbin of the Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- What are Adaptive Sports? (2:00)
- Origins of outdoor-focused adaptive sports (2:51)
- Terminology & Etiquette (16:55)
- The Gear (22:46)
- Programing in Crested Butte (27:19)
- Lodging (32:31)
- How to get involved (38:04)
RELATED LINKS:
- Our Off The Couch podcast: Kyle Robidoux on Running, Skiing, & Being Legally Blind
- Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Blister podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:15.0 | Question, did you know that one out of five people in the United States have a disability? Yep, 20%. Now, that is a much |
| 0:26.3 | higher percentage than I would have guessed just a short time ago, and it is one of the reasons |
| 0:31.9 | why those of us who love and care about outdoor recreation really need to know about all that is happening in the |
| 0:40.0 | world of adaptive sports and adaptive recreation. So to get an overview of the history and the |
| 0:48.0 | current state of adaptive sports and recreation, I recently sat down with Chris Reed, who often goes by Reed, and Elizabeth |
| 0:57.1 | Betty Philbin of the Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Bute. Now, as you are about to see, |
| 1:04.4 | the adaptive sports and recreation world is filled with a lot of impressive people and programs |
| 1:10.1 | in a bunch of different places. |
| 1:12.6 | So to all of the adaptive programs out there, thank you for expanding the experiences of |
| 1:19.0 | and the opportunities for so many participants, including all of the staff and volunteers who get |
| 1:26.9 | to work with them. |
| 1:28.2 | And with that, let's go ahead and get to my conversation with Betty and Reed. |
| 1:35.9 | Okay, well, I am very happy to be here in Blister headquarters with Betty and with Chris Reed. we just had a remarkable tour of the Adaptive |
| 1:49.2 | Sports Center. So Betty and Reed, thank you for that. But before we get going here, I think I want to |
| 1:55.1 | back up all the way and just talk about or have you answer the question, when we're talking about adaptive sports or |
| 2:04.1 | adaptive recreation, what are we talking about? Betty? Sure. So adaptive sports are endless. So when you |
| 2:11.8 | think about any outdoor activity that one might like to participate in, adaptive sports is inclusive to people |
| 2:19.1 | disabilities. When we're talking about Colorado outdoor recreation, we're doing rock climbing, |
| 2:24.4 | canoeing, kayaking, ropes course, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding. Any of those activities |
| 2:30.0 | that would include people with disabilities would be adaptive recreation. Reed, how'd she do? |
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