Adaptive Shredder
The Adaptive Snowboarding Website

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The Lowdown on Adaptive Snowboarding:

Adaptive snowboarders are riders with physical disabilities.  Many of us are amputees, but snowboarding is also possible for polio and stroke survivors, people with cerebral palsy, sight impairment, or other disabilities.  What is most important is your desire to try something new! 
Some adaptive riders use outriggers to help balance themselves while they board, but many don't use any special equipment.  The goal of this site is to get more people involved in and aware of adaptive snowboarding. 

Cliff Cabral at High Cascade Snowboard Camp, Mt. Hood, OR

For more information about adaptive snowboarding, contact your local mountain to see if they have a program.  There are more adaptive snowboarding programs every year.  If you can't find any information on adaptive snowboarding, send me an email.  I'd be happy to hear from you!

Some Background For You:

My name is Cliff Cabral.  I lost my leg in a train accident when I was 11 years old.  Then, at 20, I was hit by a drunk driver, breaking my femur and destroying the knee in my good leg.  Doctors implanted a steel rod and rebuilt my knee in my right leg, and I wear a prosthesis on my left leg.  I believe in living every day to the fullest, and that old saying is true: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Snowboarding is by far my favorite activity, but I also enjoy mountain biking, hiking, rockclimbing, swimming, and riding my old Triumph.  In the winter, I'm a commercial diver off the coast of Maine, when I'm not on the mountain.

The company that makes my leg, Next Step, is really dedicated to building a leg that can stand up -- so to speak -- to my lifestyle.  They do everything possible to make sure I can go as hard as ever.

Enjoy this website, and get out there!

Cliff

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