Fabrizio Passetti is an Italian surfer who grew up on the picturesque coastline of the football boot. Tragically, he lost his leg during a bike accident at just 17-years-old – he's 36 now. So, when a video dropped into our inbox of Fabrizio surfing Padang Padang, we were stoked to see adaptive surfing in Indo [...]
Elisha Nelson is the Women’s A2 National Record Holder, 2020 / 2021 Adaptive Athlete of the year. Elisha is a California girl, born and raised the northern California area. She loves being in the water, spending time with her family, working out and going to day spas. During the off season, you can find her [...]
My name is Harriet Burbidge-Smith, but everyone calls me Haz! I'm a 25 year old mountain biker from Australia. I have been riding my bike since the age of 4, and spent the first 20 years racing BMX internationally. At 22 I found a love for Mountain biking and eventually made the full move to MTB. [...]
“There’s only so much time you have in this world and you never know when it’s going to end”. My Grandpa had a great quote: “Live your life; like you want to remember it” Brett Tippie has certainly lived an eventful life – a pioneer of freeriding, an energetic interviewer and a vivacious event host [...]
Who Are You > Follow YOUR pen > London born; now New York based artist, Shantell was an outsider. Escaping a dark and lonely place, she found comfort and inspiration with a marker. She started to draw and escaped a culture that suppressed her. Being a young, black, gay, female artist; Shantell never stopped drawing [...]
Phrases like “mental health,” “stress,” and “anxiety” sometimes feel like empty buzzwords that get thrown around too freely these days, but when you read into what people are actually talking about, you’ll realize we hear these words so often because so many people are dealing with real mental health issues and finally have a way [...]
I am a 51 year old man with a history of depression. As a child, I was a ray of sunshine. I had a happy home with lots of love. Always hugs and my parents sang to me every night. It all started in school. At first all was good, but pretty soon I was [...]
I may look perfectly normal, confident and happy but I was at a point in my life where I felt so completely worthless that I questioned whether or not I should continue to live… The problem was, I wasn’t living, I was merely existing. I had isolated myself from friends and family to the point [...]
Jean Jacques Machado was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and suffered birth defects resulting from amniotic band syndrome, which left him with only the thumb and the little finger on his left hand. Despite this congenital problem, which directly affects the skill of gripping, he began his Jiu-Jitsu training over thirty years ago and [...]
My name is Nadi and I'm an ordinary girl. I'm korean by nationality but was born in the USSR in 1980's. I am a Single mother of an 11 year old boy whose name is Khan. Never before I turned 32 years old; I did any sports. However, few days after my 32nd birthday I [...]
