Creator of the U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Championship in Oceanside and head of classification for adaptive surfing for the world tour, each talk about serving pro athletes with disabilities and promoting adaptive water sports
and an adaptive surfer and paddleboarder. He was one of the first paraplegic athletes to compete in an open water paddle race , a viral moment of him competing with more than 400 able-bodied paddleboarders for more than five miles.Webb took some time to talk about this year’s competition and his own experiences in adaptive water sports; he’s joined in this conversation by, who’s head of classification for the U.S.
[A T7, T8 incomplete injury] is the level of my spinal cord where I’m injured. There’s either a complete injury where your spinal cord is completely severed, or incomplete where your spinal cord might still be intact, damaged, torn, or bruised or pinched. I have a little bit of sensation in my lower extremities, but no movement.It was basically surfing. I’d always been an athlete, but I never got into adaptive sports, I just wheeled my wheelchair and lifted weights, stuff like that.
My brother met a guy named Kawika Watt who made a prototype paddleboard that nobody had ever ridden and he gave me the opportunity to be the first paraplegic to ride the board, or first disabled person to ride the board. I did that and we developed a faster sports model board and in doing that, I did the 2013 Battle of the Paddle. After that, that went viral, me paddling against 484 able-bodied people on the open ocean for 5.4 miles or something like that.
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