Podcast appearances and mentions of tara llanes

Tara Llanes has been wildly accomplished at the high levels of multiple sports - BMX, MTB, and wheelchair basketball, not to mention wheelchair tennis - and she also has a whole lot more life experience to share. In 2007, in what she thought was her second-to-last race before retiring from her career as a mountain biker, a devastating crash changed things for her. She spent the next several years going through intense processing, a move to Canada, some serious mental low points, a growing interest in tennis, and much more before she found herself on the basketball court to improve her speed as a wheelchair tennis player. Wheelchair basketball stuck. Tara clearly knows how to train hard, and that continues to take her far. She's now preparing for her second Paralympics, this one in Paris, and plans to then step away from high-level competition - retiring the right way this time. Brian and I sat down with Tara in Vancouver, where she lives, to talk about that whole process. While we imagined this episode would end up the same length as most of our podcast episodes, we just kept finding more conversation. Tara is clearly smart, capable, an incredible athlete, and seriously strong as a person, and we were glad for every minute she spent with us.

On this edition of The Neutral Zone, we release another interview from the Canadian Paralympic Committee Summit in March.  This week, Brock speaks with wheelchair basketball athlete Tara Llanes, a resident of North Vancouver, B.C.  Plus we discuss the idea of the media portrayal of athletes in parasports.

On today's episode, female wheelchair basketball player Tara Llanes stops by to tell us about what it was like to win two events in the span of three weeks. Andy Frank, Manager of AMI Audio, joins us with a special announcement regarding the future of The Neutral Zone, he also joins in on a discussion surrounding the World Junior Hockey Championships and Hockey Canada. Plus, tennis star Serena Williams announces she will retire after this year's U.S. Open. The panel chats about her career and what her legacy will be.

Paralympian Tara Llanes joins Game Day to chat about P&G Tokyo 2020 Olympic Campaign, the athlete for good fun and her amazing journey.

This weeks All Things BMX Show will be coming to you live from the RITM studios, in the busy metropolis of Hartland, Michigan. We are pumped for Episode 44 "No Quitting" We will have Tara Llanes on the “Mighty Moe’s BMX Cruise” video phone. Justin and Chris will be behind the T-Bone News desk with Melissa at her Gatenine producers perch. Sound Tech Paul is brought to you by our friends via Holly Powersports. Don’t forget to get in the chat with your questions and shout-outs for the Producer Melissa to read on air to our hosts and guests. And of course, we will have another “Jeremy Ames Voice Mail”, followed by review of the latest news, rumors, and gossip that make-up The All Things BMX Show.Join us on the following pages.Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/AllthingsbmxshowPeriscope/Twitter@AllthingsbmxshwTwitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/allthingsbmxshowYouTube Pagehttps://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsBMXPlease Visit Our Sponsorshttps://answerbmx.comhttps://amegrips.comhttp://www.gateninedesign.comhttps://tbonebmx.comhttps://magicmotorsports.nethttps://www.jwmachininganddesign.comhttps://soundcloud.com/thebmxinourbloodhttps://www.facebook.com/mightymoesbmxcruisewww.bmxmaina.com

From the highs of a professional mountain biking career to the deepest lows of living life paralysed from the waist down, Tara Llanes has risen again to become a world class wheelchair athlete and leader in the adaptive mountain biking community.

The 50th Episode of Front Lines MTB is here to celebrate all the conversations from the first 49 Episodes. Guests include: Jay Darby, Christine Reid, Tara Llanes, Patrick Lucas, Carrie Karsgaard, Eric McKeegan, Ambreen Tareq, Joshua Rebennack, Bruce Martens, Thomas Schoen, Steve Sheldon, Hansi Johnson, Mike Greer, Calvin Jones, Hank Grey and Len Necefer. Stay … Continue reading "Ep 50 – The Greatest Hits and a Look Back on Where We’ve Been"

For the 3rd Panel Discussion of the Podcast we hear from four Adaptive Mountain Bikers: Jeremy McGhee of SportON USA and the UnPavement, Ethan Krueger of Adaptive MTB Trails, Andrew Liddawi of Break the Boundary  and past guest Tara Llanes of Tara Llanes Industries. We discuss aMTB rating systems, barriers on trails and off and … Continue reading "Ep 44 – Adaptive Mountain Biking Round Table"

Today I spoke with Tara Llanes of Tara Llanes Industries, about Adaptive Mountain Biking (aMTB) and just what Builders, Land Managers and Trail Associations can do to ensure trails are barrier free for all riders. If you’d like to see just what an aMTB is, check out the YouTube video located at the bottom of … Continue reading "Ep 3 – Second Chances: How Trail Associations Can Reduce Barriers for Adaptive MTBs"