The Adaptive Rec Hub: One Directory for Everything Adaptive Recreation

How the Kelly Brush Foundation built the digital home for adaptive sports — and why we’re proud to be listed alongside the best gear in the industry.

If you’ve ever tried to research adaptive equipment online, you already know how scattered the information is. One forum post mentions a handcycle. A YouTube video shows a sit-ski. A vendor page lists a chair, but doesn’t tell you whether anyone near you actually has one to try. Choosing the right piece of equipment — and finding the community that uses it — can feel like a part-time job.

That’s exactly the problem the Adaptive Rec Hub was built to solve. And we’re thrilled to share that Extreme Motus all-terrain wheelchairs are now featured on the Rec Hub’s All-Terrain sport page, alongside some of the most respected names in adaptive mobility.

What is the Adaptive Rec Hub?

The Adaptive Rec Hub calls itself “the digital home for adaptive sports,” and that’s a fair description. It’s a free platform built by the Kelly Brush Foundation (KBF) that brings the entire adaptive recreation world into one place — athletes, programs, events, equipment, vendors, and grant funding — and lets you filter and search until you find exactly what you need.

Whether you’re newly injured and looking for your first piece of gear, a parent trying to help a child get back outside, a clinician sending a patient home with resources, or a long-time adaptive athlete looking for the next program to try, the Rec Hub is built for you. Here’s what you’ll find when you visit:

Sport Pages

The Rec Hub’s Sport Pages are designed to teach users about the equipment used in each adaptive sport, share tips and tricks through educational videos, and highlight the ability-level considerations and ease of access for each activity. With more than 50 sports cataloged — from alpine skiing, basketball, and hockey to surfing, fishing, archery, pickleball, WCMX, sled hockey, and power soccer — there’s a dedicated page for nearly every pursuit you can think of.

This is also where you’ll now find Extreme Motus. Our chairs are featured on the All-Terrain sport page, alongside other respected makers — companies that share our commitment to building gear that holds up to real outdoor use.

Event Calendar

The Rec Hub’s nationwide Event Calendar makes it easy to find fun adaptive sports events near or far. Hundreds of try-it days, clinics, races, camps, and expos from programs across the country get posted every week. Filter by sport, location, and distance to discover something happening in your city this weekend — or plan a trip to a destination event across the country. It’s the easiest way we know to actually try a piece of equipment before you commit to it.

Member Map

This is, hands down, the coolest feature on the Rec Hub. The Member Map brings more than 12,000 active users, 600 adaptive recreational programs, and events nationwide into a single interactive view. Zoom in on your region and you can see who’s nearby, which programs are running, and where the next event is happening — all in one place. For someone newly injured (or a clinician or family member helping them rebuild), seeing the size and density of the adaptive sports community on a single map is genuinely powerful proof that the community is bigger, closer, and more active than most people realize.

A Grant Finder Portal with 70+ Grant Funding Sources

Cost is the single biggest barrier for most people considering adaptive equipment. The Rec Hub’s Grant Finder catalogs more than 70 grant funding sources covering equipment, training, and program fees, and walks users through which ones they may qualify for. KBF’s own Active Fund is in there, but so are dozens of independent and regional programs that most people would never discover on their own.

Classifieds, Messaging, and Family & Friend Resources

The Rec Hub also runs an equipment classifieds section where members can buy and sell used adaptive gear, plus a built-in messaging system to connect directly with other athletes, mentors, and programs. For families and friends, there’s a dedicated Family & Friend Resources area with guides on transfers, transportation, and supporting a loved one through life with a spinal cord injury.

And it’s all free. You sign up with an email address, build a profile, and you’re in.

Why the Kelly Brush Foundation Matters

To understand why the Adaptive Rec Hub is as thoughtful and well-built as it is, you have to know the story behind the organization that built it.

The Kelly Brush Foundation was founded in 2006, after Kelly Brush — a Division I alpine ski racer for Middlebury College in Vermont — sustained a spinal cord injury during an NCAA race. Kelly and her family responded to that injury the way only a remarkable few do: not by stepping away from the sport, but by turning toward it with purpose. They launched the foundation with two clear goals — first, to push the sport of ski racing toward safer course standards and safety equipment, and second, to help people with spinal cord injuries get back to active lives by funding the adaptive sports equipment they need to do it.

Two decades on, that mission has reached an extraordinary scale. KBF’s Active Fund has helped well over a thousand athletes across 47 states purchase handcycles, monoskis, sport chairs, racing chairs, hockey sleds, and all-terrain wheelchairs. The foundation also runs adaptive sports camps that bring people together to learn new skills, build confidence, and form lifelong friendships with others who get it.

Based in Burlington, Vermont, KBF is one of the most respected and community-driven nonprofits in the adaptive sports world — and the Adaptive Rec Hub is a natural extension of everything they’ve been doing for years. Instead of pointing people to a dozen different websites, they built one platform that connects equipment, funding, community, and opportunity in a single place.

Anyone who has watched a family member or friend regain their independence through adaptive sport knows how much that work matters. KBF doesn’t just hand out grants — they build infrastructure for an entire community.

What It Means to Be Featured on the Rec Hub

For us at Extreme Motus, being featured on the Adaptive Rec Hub’s All-Terrain sport page is meaningful for a few reasons.

First, it puts our chairs in front of the people they were designed for. Our mission has always been to prove that nature is wheelchair accessible — that beaches, forests, snowfields, and mountain trails belong to everyone, regardless of mobility. The Rec Hub is where adaptive athletes are already looking when they ask the question, “what can actually get me out there?” Being featured means more people will find out that an off-road option exists.

Second, it places the Motus alongside the best equipment in the industry. The All-Terrain sport page features other respected makers — companies that share our commitment to building gear that holds up to real outdoor use. We’re proud to stand next to them.

Third, and most importantly, it makes the search easier for the people who matter most: the athletes, families, therapists, and program directors who are trying to find the right chair for the right person. The more centralized that search is, the better outcomes everyone gets.

Go Explore the Rec Hub

If you take one thing from this post, let it be this: bookmark the Adaptive Rec Hub. Whether you’re researching your first piece of adaptive equipment, looking for a program in your area, hunting for a grant, or just curious about what’s out there, it’s the single most useful free resource we’ve seen for the adaptive sports community.

And while you’re there, take a minute to read about the Kelly Brush Foundation. The work they’ve done — and continue to do — is the reason this kind of platform exists at all. A donation, a share on social media, or even just signing up to join the community helps them keep building.

Visit the Adaptive Rec Hub →

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