Amputee Fabrizio Passetti Explores How Wave Pools Can Help Adaptive Athletes Wednesday April 21, 2021 Staff
Fabrizio Passetti lost part of his right leg when he was 18-years old. Having already developed a healthy love for riding waves, his life since then has been given to finding ways to continue surfing. Battling through amputation and infections, experimenting with prosthetics, and finding the right equipment that could accommodate it all, he’s worked through the challenges that make up exactly what it means to be an adaptive surfer. An obstacle is thrown his way and he faces it. And that’s what makes characters like Passetti a source of inspiration.