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Hi, my name's Dave Schoeneck, we're here in the Wasatch, beautiful Wasatch Mountains of
Utah. Here to talk about adaptive sports, and how snowshoeing can fit in with a lot
of peoples' adaptive life. As you continue to do more and more snowshoeing, some of the
kids are going to want to do it more and more and get more competitive with it. And, there
are Special Olympics and there's different activities and one of the sprint starts, and
here's a good example: is where you just kind of get into a more of a three point stance
and you're going to take off and throw that arm forward, and just sprint. O.k, so in a
running, it's very important to let them know when they're first starting off, there's going
to be shorter steps so beware of the snowshoe overlap. As the speed increases, the strides
will get longer and there's less apt to have the snowshoe overlap. So, in sprinting, you're
going to always want to drive with the balls of your feet, as you push forward, you want
to keep your knees up level, and drive with your arms. So, it's a one fluid motion, it's
much like sprinting on a track, it's just that this is a little softer track than you're
used to.