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Greetings friends, Andre here again, sharing awesome news:)) It’s quite safe now to announce that Karina and I are expecting another baby!! Stella is going to be a big sister!! It’s about to get really busy again, all that fun baby stuff that a lot of you know about... We decided we won’t find out the sex until birth. Never thought I would be ok with this but I’m extremely peaceful with it. All that we care is that baby is healthy....
Hey hey, hope everyone is keeping it together, one day at a time. I would like to take a moment to appreciate Team PossAbilities. I do always appreciate them and also count my blessings. How lucky am I or are us to have them in our lives?! In changing sports, due to the circumstances I was sort of heading into the unknown. Of course I did my homework and had been studying the possibilities if I were to do it. But...
Howdy! Exciting news to share with everyone; I connected with Burton a couple months ago, which is very best brand of Snowboarding —as a matter of fact, Jake Burton (founder) invented the sport! Knowing that he was very fond of disabled sports, I sent him a personal message on Instagram. Unbeknownst to me, on that same month he also passed away because of cancer:( As luck would have it, a good friend of mine grew up with the now Vice President of Burton....
Hello to all of you guys that care to come and check on us:) Covid is getting more serious by the day, and it affects people differently. I’m hoping everyone stays healthy and safe but also know that any of us could get it, if we didn’t get it yet... The pandemic actually helped my position in the Para snowboard rankings. My racing plan, that I was advised with help from the Brazilian Snow sports federation, was to race in Canada (which...
Dear readers, personally I thought COVID-19 was over hyped. Then suddenly it got out of control: country borders were closing, people were being furloughed in their jobs, sports and all travelling was cancelled. It is real. Selfishly I was mad because we had an excellent late season for snow, rain & such —I had a couple of training trips to Mammoth planned, and was extremely excited with that. Until the mountain closed, early, because of Covid. Honestly, I’m just saying...
Greetings dear supporters and readers; I want to share how much I learned from my experience in Canada. Snowboard takes so much energy out of you, and then on top of that, going from sea level to mountain heights always gets me —altitude sickness. Your body has to work extra hard to adapt. I knew the workouts would have to change when you change sports. And I did change my workouts, based on what the coach from the Brazil’s snow...
Hey guys, I bring great news from Canada, where I had 2 separate races in 2 days! This was an amazing experience and my first time racing Snowboard Cross (SBX), also a chance to accumulate points to enter the rankings. A couple of mishaps along the way, one could say I had the odds stacked against me, but I saw it as an opportunity. Arriving there in the evening, I would have the following day for training in the mountain (with 2...
Gidday fellow readers, In late January I had a chance to participate on an alpine race camp at Mammoth Mountain with Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra, which was made possible to me thanks to PossAbilities. With this same group we did some classes a couple years ago, on what was my return to snowboarding, thanks again to PossAbilities. I stayed in touch w them, and when the opportunity showed up for a skiing camp, I was proactive and asked if they would allow a...
Dear readers, I’d like to share good news, a new job with Hanger Clinic as a Patient Advocate. It’s basically peer visiting with amputees, something I have been doing thru PossAbilities for a while already. I’m pretty excited, luckily I fit the job description well and was in the right place at the right time. Turns out Hanger bought the clinic I had been going, and some others in the region, and they want to expand their business on the...
Loma Linda University Team PossAbilities just did it again! Another dream came true in the form of a snowboarding leg! (and other action sports) Made by Biodapt, it was developed by Paralympic snowboarding champion Mike Schultz, and I always wanted one! This is a game changer. I now have a chance to compete on the same hardware as the top guys, so it’s all up to my training now. Now this is the deal: Control what I can control. Keeping fit...
