Ocean Positive: Offering Free Pool and Open Water Training Session

Ocean Positive creates programs and opportunities for sustainable positive impacts on the health, well-being, safety and strength of our oceans and communities.

Blue Journey Unified Programs (BJUP) offers adults living with Spinal Cord Injuries, Disorders and Movement Challenges (SCI/D/MC) the opportunities to play, train and compete year around in open water sport disciplines of paddle-boarding, swimming and kayak. The program offers pool training (swimming and prone paddle-boarding) in the winter and open-water prone paddle-boarding, kayak and swimming programming in the summer.

Blue Journey Unified innovative program:
– Brings together a community of adult athletes and professionals in sustainable partnerships
– Provides people with SCI/D/MC the opportunity to train, play or compete alongside non-SCI/D/MC or Challenged friends and family to take part in both adaptive and non-adaptive community aquatic sports events
– Provides an activity that increases flexibility as a result of the unique prone position, sense of balance from the work involved in staying on the board, and endurance, cardiovascular health, strength, and resulting mobility from the regular physical activity.

Measurable goals for BJUP include:
– Increased physical capacity and well-being measured by flexibility, endurance, strength, mobility, and sense of balance
– Increased community participation measured by attendance at or participation in BJUP practice sessions, multi-discipline aquatic events, and other non-aquatic activities with BJUP team members
– Increased Quality of life measured by Spinal Cord Injury–Quality of Life (SCI-QOL)
– Reach out about pop-up paddles and other sessions in some new waters.

Want to host a session in waters closer to your home for a team or community? Contact Ocean Positive via email and they will work with you about setting up sessions.