Life Rolls On and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation host They Will Surf Again, an adaptive surfing program for people with disabilities who might never be able to surf otherwise. On April 9th, 2011 we drove out to Huntington Beach so Nick could give it a try. He had a blast and can't wait to do it again! Our thanks to LRO, the Reeve Foundation, and the hundreds of volunteers and staff who went out of their way to make this a life-changing experience.
They Will Surf Again breaks participants down into four color-coded teams. As you can see, there are a huge number of volunteers on each team. These events take several hours from beginning to end, and they have many volunteers so they can rotate team members in and out of the water and keep them from getting exhausted. There were probably 200 volunteers out there helping with the surfing, getting dressed, food, t-shirt sales, etc.
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