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    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the campfire. Just like walking up to a campfire at a local crag or beach you never know what kind of conversation you'll intercept here. We may be talking about prosthetic feet or it may be the latest health-care bill pending before congress. You may find a thread about which camera is the best to take on your sea-kayaking trip or one asking how to get in touch with Erik Weihenmayer. You just don't know what you'll find here. Use the search function to look up prior threads or just browse.

All we ask is that you be respectful and honor the sanctity of the campfire. 

Thx,
Malcolm]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:50:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Climbers and Skiers invited to Alaska</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,230,231#msg-231</link>
      <author>programs@tellurideadaptivesports.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Only one spot now remains on this expedition, don't let this opportunity pass you by.  Small scholarship or payment plan available upon review.  Call now to reserve your spot on the team!  -Tim]]></description>
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      <title>Climbers and Skiers invited to Alaska</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,230,230#msg-230</link>
      <author>programs@tellurideadaptivesports.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The Telluride Adaptive Sports Program is still accepting applications for a couple spots on its Second Annual Alaska Adaptive Adventure June 24-July 3.  Adults with physical disabilities can join us on the Pika Glacier (i.e. Little Switzerland) for a weeks worth of ski touring and ice/rock climbing.  In partnership with Mountain Trip, this expedition is one of a kind and a great experience for the novice to the experienced big mountain adventurer.  Contact Tim McGough at TASP for more information.  970-728-3865 or programs@tellurideadaptivesports.org.  See last years photo's on youtube by searching tasp1000.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:41:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Paradox article wins award for top sportswriting</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,229,229#msg-229</link>
      <author>morganstanfield</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A million thanks to the Paradox crew, especially Mal, Devaki, and DJ for your passion, beauty, mild insanity, and complete lack of bullshit. Thanks to you, I just won the Society of Professional Journalists first prize for sportswriting, in a four-state competition, for my/our article, &quot;Beautiful Rebels: Paradox Sports Celebrates Guts, Gimps, and Glory.&quot; (http://www.oandp.com/articles/2009-06_06.asp)

All my crazy love,

Morgan Stanfield
The O&amp;P EDGE magazine]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:49:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Flyfishing arm for Amputees</title>
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      <author>jlev</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the link. I did this with the help of [url=http://www.nepassage.org] Northeast Passage[/url], at the University of New Hampshire. While I haven't actually tested it with Ted, I do have plans online if anyone else wants to make their own. There is a community of builders online at the [url=http://openprosthetics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/fly-fishing-arm]Open Prosthetics Project[/url]. Please email me at jlev@mit.edu for more information.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:46:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Flyfishing arm for Amputees</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,225,227#msg-227</link>
      <author>Maureen</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Nice! I'm going to have to try that out, I've had no luck here spin casting...looking forward to a good fishing month for March when I can get an in-state license. Watch out, fishies!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:47:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Help from Iceland</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,224,226#msg-226</link>
      <author>maldaly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Anna,
We have had several people climb who have severe disabilities with their hands. One of our participants who lost all his fingers and thumbs from frostbite, uses a long wrap of velcro tape to help attach his &quot;hands&quot; to his ice tools. I will email him with this information and hopefully he will respond to you.
Best,
malcolm]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:17:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>maldaly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Check this out! Someone's thinking about how a person without a hand can cast a flyrod.

http://jlev.media.mit.edu/Projects/FlyFishingArm]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:13:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Help from Iceland</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,224,224#msg-224</link>
      <author>Anna Rún</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently became a trainee for the icelandic rescue team or ICE-SAR. You can see what I mean on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDLYD5LGwsE if you look for ICE SAR.
Anyway We have to learn how to use an ice axe. I was born with a disability on my hands. I have no ulna bone and only 1/3 of radius and just two fingers on each hand. I do pretty well without any prosthetics. But now it seems I need it. I can't use the ice axe cause I can't hold it well enough. Do you have any ideas?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:53:04 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Gimps on Ice</title>
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      <author>BTM</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey Guys Its almost Ice Climbing season here in Vermont. If anyone is coming up this way and wants to do some ice climbing drop me an email I have lots of extra gear and lots of time. Looking forward to gimps on ice so if anyone hears dates or any info please forward it my way.

Thanks Bob Timmer
bobtimmer@myfairpoint.net]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:50:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Rotationplasty (Van Ness rotation)</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,220,222#msg-222</link>
      <author>ksawford</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey -

I'm more than happy to give you whatever information I've got. My surgery was some time ago but I can talk to you about the functional realities and perhaps can suggest where to start looking for a surgeon. Email me at kate.sawford@gmail.com, it would probably be easiest to arrange a phone or skype conversation.

Sincerely,
Kate]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:10:49 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Prosthetic feet, hiking, and skiing</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,171,221#msg-221</link>
      <author>jacekkokula</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello Kate.
Have a look please at my post which explains everything.
If you can help me somehow I will be very grateful.
My only concern is that you probably had the rotationplasty when you were a child. Since then so much things could have changed I suppose.
Regards

Jacek]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:49 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>jacekkokula</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Helo to everyone.

I am a new user of this site, a Polish citizen living in the UK (England).
After having a paragliding accident in 2005 I am about to lose my battle to safe my left leg and I am looking for hospitals in USA or Canada or any country in the world to performe the rotationplasty on my leg.
If I supposed to lose the leg I would simply prefer to chose the best (in my opinion) solution.
I am looking for people, who had had this done to get ready for the enevitable.
Regards.

Jacek

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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:34:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Asheville NC kayaking</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,217,219#msg-219</link>
      <author>dtmorris</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry Malcolm I should have been more clear.   I dont have any physical disabilities (other than being out of shape)  I am more looking to volunteer my time with people who might like to learn to kayak with their disabilities.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:46:46 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Asheville NC kayaking</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,217,218#msg-218</link>
      <author>maldaly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey dtmorris,
I don't know of anyone specifically who can help you but I'll check it out. What kind of disability do you have? Knowing that will help a lot to find someone or a group to help out. If you feel like answering in a private PM that's fine.
Mal]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:41:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,217,217#msg-217</link>
      <author>dtmorris</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am fairly new to the area and I am interested in possibly doing some adaptive white water kayaking.  Does anyone know if anything like that currently exists locally?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:29:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Boulder Amputee Support Group</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,214,216#msg-216</link>
      <author>maldaly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It was a great time. A few old faces and many new. Loved the couple from Bhutan and wish them well. The woman, a recent BK amputee, lives in a village that is 10,000 below the monastery where she works. Every day, she hikes three hours up and three hours down to get to work. That would be a huge challenge for a normal. Can't even imagine doing that as an amputee. Every day...

After the meeting 10 of us went over to the Toad for beers and burgers, stories and lies. Now THAT's a support group meeting!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:46:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Boulder Amputee Support Group</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,214,215#msg-215</link>
      <author>steve@boulder</author>
      <description><![CDATA[My prosthetist, Angela Montgomery, told me about this. I'll be there. She said to come to the North side entrance - not the normal S. side entrance. There will be signs. Look for the guy w/ a prosthesis - that'll be me. ;-)

-steve]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:13:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Boulder Amputee Support Group</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,214,214#msg-214</link>
      <author>Bogart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have been going to the Boulder amputee support group for about 6 months and it is a pretty good group. On Tuesday July 14th fellow Paradoxer will be presenting at the group talking all things Paradox. The group meets at Boulder Community Hospital at  311 Mapleton Ave, Boulder. The group starts at 6:30 and ends at 8. This is a good opportunity to check out the support group. Shoot me an email if you need directions or a ride.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:37:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Can Paradox help me?</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,208,213#msg-213</link>
      <author>steve@boulder</author>
      <description><![CDATA[What are you driving? My Vari-Flex pretty much does it all. Sure the liners and foot shells wear out but ...
You have tried SBing w/ what you have right?
-steve]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Can Paradox help me?</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,208,212#msg-212</link>
      <author>jonwlewis</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry, it is a below knee.  The foot setup I have now will not support the damage from skateboarding.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:24:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Can Paradox help me?</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,208,211#msg-211</link>
      <author>steve@boulder</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi, I'm not clear what a bke is .. below knee e=??
In any case, I'd be trying what you got first. Let us know what bke is and someone should have ideas.
steve]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:53:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Extremity Games / Rock Climbing</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,207,210#msg-210</link>
      <author>jmfarris</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Look forward to climbing with you guys at the comp and would like to chat with you about Paradox at the event. See you in Flint!

Jacquelyn]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:59:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Extremity Games / Rock Climbing</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,207,209#msg-209</link>
      <author>demartinophoto</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Im headed there, I really don't know who else from this squad will be there. I do know Ronnie will also be there.
'See you in MI.
Craig]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:36:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,208,208#msg-208</link>
      <author>jonwlewis</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am a bke amputee new to the Boulder area.  I am actually trying to find a proper combination of prosthetic with a foot that will allow me to start skateboarding again.  Can you help me?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:10:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <author>jmfarris</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am headed to the Extremity Games and am competing in rock climbing. Just thought I would see who else was climbing? 

Jacquelyn]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:58:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Article about Paradox in the June O&amp;P EDGE</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,206,206#msg-206</link>
      <author>morganstanfield</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Check out the new article about Paradox in latest O&amp;P EDGE magazine:

http://www.oandp.com/articles/2009-06_06.asp

Beautiful Rebels: Paradox Sports
By Morgan Stanfield
Paradox Sports is a nascent adaptive sports organization that rose out of the world of rock climbing, a dangerous, solitary sport performed in some of the most harrowing and beautiful territory on earth. Climbing attracts and breeds singular personalities—rebellious iconoclasts with a hunger for the new. Because climbers describe their discovery of pathways up sheer rock faces as &quot;solving problems,&quot; it's fitting that the organization was created when a severely injured veteran joined forces with an eccentric pro climber to get a paralyzed comrade up a rock face under his own power. The solution to the problem spawned an organization with a celebratory spirit, a philosophy of radical self-acceptance, and the beginnings of a community unique in the world of adaptive sports... (read the complete article at http://www.oandp.com/articles/2009-06_06.asp)

Morgan]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:56:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Colo climbers - Shelf road this weekend?</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,205,205#msg-205</link>
      <author>steve@boulder</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Heya - we, wife, daughter &amp; I, are climbing at shelf this weekend. Anyone interested in joining? I'm coming off 1-1/2 years of tendonitis so will be gunning the easist Shelf has to offer. My wife on the other hand .. 

We're heading down Friday night. Reply here and we figure out how to hookup. 
-steve]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:53:46 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Mountain Biking</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,204,204#msg-204</link>
      <author>Bogart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have a mountain biking question. I am a RBK and have had difficulty riding my mountain bike since my amputation. I had a hard time turning the peddle on the upstroke. Fortunately, we are working on a leg that is strictly for biking. I am really excited and am the &quot;test socket&quot; stage. I spent a lot of time on a stationary bike in the prosthetists office yesterday working with placement of my foot on the peddle and socket comfort. Everything is working out well but we have yet to choose a foot setup for the prosthetic. We discussed some custom one off solutions and kicked around a basic carbon fiber foot. I was interested in finding out if anyone has had experience with this. I really loved riding my bike before loosing my leg and would love to be able to ride it again. I want to make sure this prosthetic is right and we have the right components. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:21:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: TR: Gimps On Ice</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,193,203#msg-203</link>
      <author>morganstanfield</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This story was published in The O&amp;P EDGE about Heidi and Syd. One of our freelancers wrote this. http://www.oandp.com/articles/2009-04_06.asp]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 17:08:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Amazin new prosthetic hand/arm</title>
      <link>http://www.paradoxsports.org/forums/read.php?11,199,201#msg-201</link>
      <author>morganstanfield</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This thing makes the i-LIMB look like it's made out of Tinker Toys. No offense to Touch Bionics, of course. Its interface, which hasn't been described in the press yet, is also cool--the more pressure you leverage with the arm, the tighter it holds to your body to contain the weight. Then, it opens up again when you set down your load. I just wrote a news item about this for The O&amp;P EDGE, and Academy Today, which we're bundling with the EDGE this month, has an unfortunately dense scholarly article about the interface. The news story should go online Monday, the article comes out in the mag in June.]]></description>
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