Brent Pease
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Podcast Appearances
So even now when Kyle and I walk in and need to introduce ourselves to people or need to ask people to wear name tags, we still feel that same deep connection that we felt when it was just a handful of families who we all intimately, we knew them very well, what their situation was, who the brothers and sisters were and everything in between.
Yeah, thank you.
It hasn't evolved that much.
The very first thing we used was basically an adult stroller and we still use those today.
First-time athletes, they're like Cadillacs.
They're just big and they can handle 250 pounds.
But then we've got these sleek racing chairs that cost us $6,000 to $10,000 a piece.
And we're unique, by the way.
that we own and maintain the equipment.
And that was just because Kyle always wanted to lower the barriers to entry.
He didn't want a family to go, we can't afford a chair.
He wanted to be able to say, no, no, we have everything you need.
Just come meet us on Saturday morning.
So we found a couple of different companies for that type of stuff.
I think the thing that's evolved the most has been the bikes.
So like we had a goal
of Kyle and our athletes feeling and experiencing these things as an athlete would so for the bike I didn't want to tow Kyle and so we found this company in Canada Winnipeg that makes the bikes and those have evolved from these monstrosities these huge pieces of steel into like a race into a racing bike that can handle Hawaii but it's still the original frame concept so much of
What we see today, 15 years later, is still really the same thing we looked at.
Just, I would say, slight modifications.
You can't see Kyle's chair, but it's the same bones that every adult with a wheelchair, like with CP, uses.