Sports programs

[Barb]

I just recieved a private message asking what sports programs might be available. We are really lucky to have a chapter of Blaze Sports (http://blazesports.com/)near us. They do basketball, football, rugby, tennis, golf, Boccia Ball and all kinds of other things. The best part is that they provide all the sports chairs, siblings can play, and it is all free. There racing program is great but it is a traveling system against other cities so parents do incur their own travel costs . Practice really is the highlight of the week around here :)

[Pokemasterflex]

I am also involved in a similar program. I have competed against Blaze Sports teams. Blaze Sports Colorado actually comes to mind :clap2:

You weren't by chance at Nationals this year were you?

[Barb]

Nope. We did Blaze in Las Vegas. Now that we are in Colorado we are doing sports with National Sports Center for the Disabled.

BTW, who saw the Winter X Games competition last week filmed in Aspen? They never once (that I heard) referred to any of the sit skiier as disabled :clap2:and MAN those guys (didn't see girls) can fly. One guy was awesome, flipped his sit ski over and got it back up to win!

[Pokemasterflex]

Nope. We did Blaze in Las Vegas. Now that we are in Colorado we are doing sports with National Sports Center for the Disabled.

BTW, who saw the Winter X Games competition last week filmed in Aspen? They never once (that I heard) referred to any of the sit skiier as disabled :clap2:and MAN those guys (didn't see girls) can fly. One guy was awesome, flipped his sit ski over and got it back up to win!

Oh really? Las Vegas? One of my good friends is involved in the Blaze Sports chapter down that way.


I have a friend who does the skiing. She is insane. Tried it once, fell over about a dozen times :D

[Barb]

Yup. We just moved to CO from Vegas about 6 months ago.

Carter LOVES skiing. He is not into competitive sports. In fact, after his first ski trip his comment was that "he found a new favorite sport. No one throws balls at him and he can go as fast or slow as he wants". He was doing some pretty big runs last month.

[Dodger67]

My only sports claim to fame is that Ernst van Dyk was a few years junior to me at school. (IIRC he was in 9th grade when I was in 12th)
To this day I insist that I was classified incorrectly, which meant that I could never make the team no matter how well I did.
I tried the trowing events - javelin, discus, shot-put.

I did (non-competitive) gymnastics when I was a youngster then by high school when the abovementioned misclassification ruined my chances, I took up archery, then after school (when I reached the legal age) I started pistol shooting, but the licencing laws have recently tightened up here making it just too expensive.

Just last Saturday I got hold of grandma's bowls (lawn) and tried it out at the local golf and bowls club - I had played a little at school, but not seriously.
They asked me to come again so I suppose I did ok:2aa:
Apparently the club gets "brownie points" for having a disabled member so they are actually very pleased with me.
(Granny has long gone to the bowling green in the sky so the bowls are now mine.)

[Summer25]

As a child Florida had a few things that I did. I was given a racing wheelchair from the company that I work for now and did that for a few years as well. I also played tennis and basketball. My elementary school also had where they would take us bowling or played softball depending on the time of year. Now that I am 25 the only thing I have seen is sailing and sled hockey. I really, really want to try sled hockey, but when it was first started I was having kidney issues. They have a team now I believe. The Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team does that.