Ep. 417: Adaptive Adventures Revisited - Matt Feeney
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Alright folks, no more excuses. No matter your challenge, you will benefit from enlarging our life with adventure sports. Check out today's show where Matt Feeney rocks the mic with the stories we all need to hear to remind us that life is to be lived powerfully and on purpose, no matter the circumstances. Matt Feeney was an avid mountain biker and skier when a cliff diving accident at Lake Powell in 1988 left him paralyzed from the waist down. Since then he has again become an amazing skier and biker and SCUBA diver and more..., as well as founding the amazing organization, Adaptive Adventures. He teaches us all NOT to give up, but to adapt to a life better lived. Thanks, Matt!
Adaptive Adventures
1315 Nelson Street, Unit 1
Lakewood CO 80215
Colorado
303-679-2770
Illinois
847-251-8445
www.adaptiveadventures.org
www.facebook.com/adaptiveadventures
www.instagram.com/adaptiveadventures/?hl=en
www.twitter.com/adaptadventures
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| 0:00.0 | If you are a world-class wheelchair racer or a hand cyclist, you can make a living doing that. |
| 0:14.4 | And 25 years ago, you really couldn't. |
| 0:19.3 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 tack get out there and have some fun |
| 0:25.3 | hello and welcome to the adventure sports podcast this is your host kurt linville today i have special |
| 0:35.5 | guest matt fienie with us from Adaptive Adventures. Matt is the |
| 0:40.0 | director of advancement and co-founder for Adaptive Adventuresures, and he is here today to talk to us |
| 0:46.9 | about the Adaptive Adventures program, about a lot of the adventure sports that he does, as well as |
| 0:53.3 | opportunities are out there for a whole lot of other people to do some amazing adventure sports that he does, as well as opportunities are out there for a whole lot of |
| 0:55.8 | other people to do some amazing adventure sports. Matt, we're really excited to share what you |
| 1:01.2 | have going on with adaptive adventures, so welcome to the program. Well, thank you, Kurt, |
| 1:05.8 | and thanks for having me. So, Matt, you just told me that you moved to Colorado when you were |
| 1:10.4 | eight and just fell in love with all the sports here. Tell us a little bit more about yourself and who you are and how you came to be an adventure sports enthusiast. |
| 1:19.3 | Well, I guess, you know, it's fairly typical to other people that grew up in Colorado. I mean, there's a lot of opportunity to get involved in |
| 1:27.8 | outdoor sports. And I started with, I guess, with the traditional team sports. As a kid, I played |
| 1:34.5 | football, basketball, baseball. I was on the swim team. You know, I was always out doing something |
| 1:41.4 | very, you know, I was always very active. Staying active and being you know i was always very active um staying active and being |
| 1:45.5 | involved in sports was always very important to me uh growing up and i think that's it's kind |
| 1:52.5 | of stayed with me throughout the years and uh especially something like skiing um i learned to ski |
| 1:59.2 | at a young age and uh just it was something I connected with my friends |
| 2:03.8 | with. It was a very social, a social activity. And once you start progressing and getting to be a better |
| 2:11.6 | skier, it just becomes more fun and you can do a little bit more with it and and of course I've always just |
| 2:18.4 | enjoyed being outdoors and so I guess that's kind of where it all stems from and then eventually |
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