GIMPS GONE WILD!! Double your support of adaptive climbing - two days left!
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There's a thread with the meat of this, but I want this one to be cool pics and an update - Earth Treks climbing centers has offered to MATCH all donations up to $5K made to Paradox Sports, a Boulder based 501(c)3 that "improves people’s lives by creating physical adaptive sport communities built to inspire" - specifically through climbing. Paradox Athlete Jess Sporte at Earth Treks Golden and member of the Front Range Adaptive Climbing Team, 3rd place at USA Climbing Adaptive Nationals 2015 for Female Leg Amputee |
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Great shot of Jess Sporte crushing as always! |
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As soon as I saw Gimps Gone Wild on the feed, I instantly knew it was you Mo, haha. |
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The other thread is here . |
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Did someone say ICE CLIMBING?!? Look at this stud - Chad Jukes, lost his leg in Iraq and came back to slay mad ice in CO, AK, and is setting his sights on some big peaks in the Himalayas. Pic by Claudia Camila Lopez Paradox Sports has a bucket o' feet, for ice and rock, that we bring to our events so that EVERYONE can climb. Syd Hurd cleaning the ice off her foot - Pic by Lourdes Irizarry. |
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Scott Baird wrote:As soon as I saw Gimps Gone Wild on the feed, I instantly knew it was you Mo, haha.WHOOOOOO, MEEEEE? |
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Paradox Athlete Vijay Viswanathan, a sit-climber, on the Bastille this past fall. He's a guy with big plans in the future in the valley... |
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During 2016, there will be trips and outings in the Gunks, Eldo, Tetons, Yosemite, and more. Watch the TRIPS page for details and dates. |
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In 2015, Paradox provided Adaptive Climbing Training for dozens of organizations and institutions. |
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Kate Sawford, our resident Candian athlete, not giving AF that she not only has one leg, but that she's on the sharp end in a friggen test socket that wouldn't stay on! And you thought YOU had high gravity days... |
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Climbing friend, |
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Aleks Zebastian wrote:Climbing friend, You are quite kind to promote these activities for those with less fortune. I take it that "gimp" is the most respect and appropriate way to refer to those handicapped in your country? And what do they do when they "go wild?" Is this what would be happening when you release them onto the climbing rocks?Good questions! It's what I would call an irreverent term of endearment. Are there people out there that would get wicked offended if you were to call them a gimp? Yup. But I love it - my gimp monkey family. I would MUCH rather be called a gimp than handicapped or disabled, because I'm sure as hell NOT either one of those. And I don't think I have any less fortune than some sucker with two hands. That's actually what attracted me to Paradox in the first place, I was born without my hand and found many of the adaptive sports organizations too touchy feely. Then I stumlbed on Paradox and was like 'whoa - you guys climb hard, try hard, push hard, party hard - then repeat? Sign me UP!!' Whatever you do, don't google 'gimps gone wild' at work- you've been warned. Yours truly at Veaduwoo - reds are perfect stumps! Pic by Timpson Smith |
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This is awesome !!!!! I'm not missing any limbs, but i have had several joint replacements and such |
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john strand wrote:This is awesome !!!!! I'm not missing any limbs, but i have had several joint replacements and such Don't tell me I can't do it !!! $$ on the way You don't take paypal ????We're really just like snotty teenagers - tell us we can't do something, and we'll find a way to do it. Even more awesome are folks like yourself that have an excuse to give up but absolutely refuse to :) Thank you for your support, make sure you sign up for the newsletter so you can come to one of our events and I can thank you in person! Let me check in on PP... |
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Earth Treks has been supporting both in cash and in time - here, ET Golden head coach Will works with Bill Casson, a blind climber and the 2015 USA VI Climbing Champion - he's hopefully headed to worlds in 2016 to go for the gold in blind climbing! Bill also got a scholarship from Paradox Sports to go compete at the National Championships in Atlanta. |
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One of my favorite things that happens at adaptive events are athletes learning from one another, whether from our volunteers or even better - other adaptive folks. That's something I really missed out on growing up ('Oh god, is it normal for my stump to be doing this?!?) |
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